[Hillview Farm]

And they are all in lamb  soo chuffed! And they will all lamb over ten days.


Just had to share with you all!

[Gunnermark]

Great result!!

[Mammyshaz]

Congratulations. Look forward to hearing your successes as they pop     

[jaykay]

Very good 

Mine were scanned today too, also all in lamb which I am relieved about as I had managed to persuade myself they were not. Three singles, all the rest are twins  And Ellie the goat was scanned with a single too.

Mine will not be lambing in 10 days however  I'm going to try sponging them next year I think, to tighten up the lambing period.

[kanisha]

Nice, is there a trick to getting them to lamb over just ten days?

How do you know about the ten days ? is your scanner that accurate or did you raddle the ram?

[Hillview Farm]

I was away in Jamaica so i didn't get home to buy a ram in time so i sent them to a farmer who ran my shearlings with his shearlings. He doesn't raddle his rams as he has too many to round up and they only go and lay in the mud so the marker doesn't show!

 The scanner told me how many days they were and they ranged from 70 to 80days.  As my ewes were all from the same flock and born within days of each other, they have been together all there life they quiet often come into heat at the same time as one another. As my ewes were outsiders they all stuck together and there are 3 that are due on the same day as one another as the ram would have been with my little group so he didn't miss anyone!

They ran with the ram for nearly 8 weeks and I was sooo worried I would have ewes lambing over that whole period! It was biscuits all round to celebrate!!! 

[kanisha]

hmmm i don't bother scanning as i only get singles but i'm thinking that it would be worth it if it was possible to get an idea of due dates!

Lucky you I have my lambings spread out over possibly eight weeks 

[Hillview Farm]

hmmm i don't bother scanning as i only get singles but i'm thinking that it would be worth it if it was possible to get an idea of due dates!

Lucky you I have my lambings spread out over possibly eight weeks 

I wasn't bothered on numbers, like yourself on the due dates and if they were empty also. But at least i know now i reallly need to be careful feeding as i do have some singles. 8 weeks.... OUCH i only have ten days of long nights!

[Rosemary]

Not sure how accurate the scanned days are. We raddle and note who's mated when and there were a few discrepancies between our dates and the scanner's. But time will tell 

[Hillview Farm]

My scanner is very experienced and i've spoken to alot of his customers and they have all said he is very good and only know of one mistake which was scanned with 4 but had 5..... Will let him off!

[Victorian Farmer]

iv never scanned  as location is to far away they seem to be bang on thou ,and well done , i always go for bonfire night that gives me the 9Th April lasts 3 weeks check 10 pm 5am 11am and 3 pm every day in that period take back pen water feed for a week and then out if wether permits.

[Marches Farmer]

Mine scanned at 163% today, which I was very pleased about (particularly since there were quite a few first time Badger Face, which tend to start with singles and take the average down) as the scanner had seen a very high barren rate at the beginning of scanning, presumably due to SBV.  I'd already  decided it would be much worse to hear "Well, she's carrying twins but I don't like the look of them," than "Barren  ..... barren ..... barren".

From weaning to 3 weeks before tupping we keep the ewes and rams out of sight and smell of each other, run a ram next to the ewes for 3 weeks then put him in for 3 weeks.  We get one or two returners that were a bit too late in their cycle to take the first time around but most are tupped within 16 days, which keeps lambing tight enough for our system and saves the faff of sponging or running teaser rams.