[in the hills]

Well ..... seven Soay ewes. First time mums.

First lamb found dead in the field 

We have two sets of twins. 

Seven lambs in total. SIX TUPS !!!! One tiny ewe lamb!!!!1

One ewe left to lamb. What will it be?

My friend called last year .... The Year of The Cockerel .... you can guess why. Must be something in the water up here.     

[jaykay]

It was definitely the year of the cockerel last year!   

My dad is having a rather tup-heavy lambing. So far I have twice as many tups as gimmers - but I've only had 3 lambs so far 

[Bramblecot]

Hi,

Our tally is 6 GFD ewes (3 first time mums) - 5 ram lambs, 3 ewe lambs
          4 Shetland x ewes  4 sets of twins  - 4 rams lambs, 4 ewe lambs

and one to go ( she went back for seconds!)  Just so thankful that they were all healthy as our vet has several reported cases of 'you know what'

[Rosemary]

We've had 12 lambs so far, one to come. Of the 12, 4 ewes and eight tups - so yes, the year of the ram.

Lamb number 13 is a tup too 

[thenovice]

3 lambs, and yes, 3 Rams! 

[kelpy]

hebrideans.
so far 12 ewes,13 rams.

did'nt want to keep any this year,typical getting a few,because now i'm umming ahhing do i keep them or not.

[onnyview]

Great post!

We're bucking the trend here in shropshire and the Onnyview flock have had 75% ewe lambs! Great as we're desperate to expand the flock---not so good fo the cash flow in the Autumn!

Allison

[Haylo-peapod]

10 ewe lambs and 9 ram lambs (Greyface Dartmoor) with 2 more left to lamb. Good news for us too as we are also expanding the flock.

The last couple of years we had twice as many ewe lambs as ram lambs (with a different ram), so even though we are at approx 50/50 , percentage-wise we are still up on the boys this year so far.

[woollyval]

Just the ouessants which from 2009 are the only breed I now have
2007 - 2 ewe lambs from 2 ewes
2008 - 3 ewe lambs(one died) 2 ram lambs (one stilborn) from 5 ewes
2009 - 1 ewe lamb 9 ram lambs from 10 ewes
2010 - 4 ewe lambs 8 ram lambs from 12 ewes
2011 - 4 ewe lambs 10 ram lambs from 12 ewes (2 sets of twins very unusual in ouessants)
2012 - 6 ewe lambs 5 ram lambs from 11 ewes ( plus one dead deformed) 2 ram lambs are twin plus 3 more ewes left to lamb.
I have so many orders for lambs i could do with a few more ewe lambs!

[tom25car]

ive had exactly the same this year from my charollais (dreadful lambing to start with all lambs were huge) - but all that survived are tups! never seen it before!

[wellies]

we have had 8 lambs in total with 7 being ram lambs and 1 a ewe lamb 

[tizaala]

From 6 Moorits so far we have had 4 rams and 4 ewes , still got one to lamb.

[lachlanandmarcus]

It is very odd - we arent lambing this year due to me having an operation but last year had 19 lambs of which 14 were ewe lambs!!! Thankfully my vet wanted 10 ewe lambs so I didnt have to send them for the chop, but it left us a bit low on the meat.

[MarvinH]

From 5 wiltshire horn ewes

6 tups
2 gimmers

[SallyintNorth]

I haven't tallied overall, but we had nothing but ewe lambs to start - something like 2 tup lambs in 18 lambs.  We've a dilemma now, usually the early lambs are finished for the early market, but these ewe lambs are really nice and we would like to keep many of them on for breeders...

I suspect the numbers evened up as we've gone through our lambing - I think I've ringed as many testicles as not...

There's a theory that tups give more ewe lambs early on in their lives, more tup lambs later.  I totted them all up one year, across seven tups, and there was a very significant skew in that direction.