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Becky 2

  • Joined Oct 2018
Ram butting a ewe
« on: October 28, 2018, 08:40:48 pm »
I have 5 herdwick ewes and 1 Exmoor ewe who have gone in with a herdwick ram today but the ram kept butting the Exmoor out the way last year he went in with the same herdwicks and some Exmoors and was fine with all of them any ideas why he would behave like this, this time around? Thanks

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Ram butting a ewe
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2018, 10:20:21 am »
Until you said he’d covered the Exmoor ok last year I’d been going to say that I’ve been told that some tups, if reared in a homogenous flock, won’t tup anything that doesn’t look like mum!  But if he tupped her last year, it seems very strange ???
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