[wellies]

We had our sheep scanned for the first time this year but our scanner seems to have missed a few. so far he had a triplet down as a double and two twins down as a single. He scanned 18 ewes and 3 were incorrect. In your experience is this common? The scanner chose the date for scanning after we told him our raddle mark dates which spread over 2 weeks starting from October 8th; They were scanned on the 18th December. It hasn't caused too many problems but the triplets and twins that were scanned incorrectly were on the small side as they hadn't really be fed accordingly. We did condition score the ewes regularly and all were at a 3 preparing to lamb but I would have liked a little more size to the little ones

[mowhaugh]

That does seem quite a few wrong, we wouldn't usually have three wrong in round about 1000.  Last year we only had one wrong, scanned as a twin which was triplets, but she was a sheep who was tupped three weeks earlier but scanned with everything else, so I did know there was a chance of that.
Pleased your lambs are good, small at birth isn't a problem as long as they get up, feed, and grow, and your condition scores sound right, I don't like to complain about the work of someone who isn't there to answer for themselves, but I would maybe see if there is someone different you could try next time.

[Tim W]

1 or 2 wrong in 1000 is acceptable ---try someone else
let them stand before scanning to empty out--that makes it easier on the scanner

Some one told me today that they have 175% on the ground from ewes scanned at 120% so someone got it really wrong!

[hexhammeasure]

Our Scanning man, (Dale Armstrong) got ours perfect so far last 5 to go and he has been spot on

[SallyintNorth]

Aye, Dale's a good 'un  . 

[Hellybee]

Could it be that the ewes were tupped and held twice, in the case of the trips, maybe two were larger and one was hiding ? Maybe 


We ve had two ewes scanned single and given us twins thats out of 107 ewes scanned

[Rosemary]

Our scanner has always been spot on but she has said that twins and singles are easy to tell apart but it's much harder to tell twins from triplets because sometimes a triplet will be hidden.

Ask me again in four weeks