[Gunnermark]

So this year from my 3 ewes I ended up with 7 lambs 5 ram lambs and 2 ewe lambs! Anyone else end up with a larger ram lamb to ewe lamb ratio??

[moony]

We are very much the other way around this year. Last year was the year of the ram lamb for us. This year with a new tup we are a much higher percentage of ewe lambs which suits us perfectly at the moment.

[Gunnermark]

How I wish I was in your position Moony, was hoping to expand the flock a bit more but hey they are here and that's the main thing!!!

[smee2012]

From my 4 ewes I got 4 ewe lambs and 2 tup lambs. There was another one (still born) but we didn't look to see what sex it was

[SallyintNorth]

In my little fleece flock I have 8 lambs, of which 5 are tup lambs and 3 ewe lambs.  1 of the ewe lambs is not going to be a breeder, so having tupped 9, I have only 2 ewe lambs to retain.    (Actually it's probably just as well - I don't think I'm going to be very good at culling my special little sheep )

Last year I tupped 4 and got 3 ewe lambs, 2 tup lambs.  (1 of which was good enough to use.)

I have also put my fleecey tup lamb onto 6 of our Dutch Texel commercial shearlings.  I haven't tracked down all of the offspring yet (the 6 are running with all the other shearlings, and BH is looking after that group), but the 3 ewes that have lambed so far that I've found have 4 tup lambs and 2 ewe lambs between them.   

We put our Old Boy (oldest Texel tup) on the Mules and some of the Mule x Texel ewes, wanting some of the offspring to retain.  I do know that every time one of the ewes I like lambs, both her lambs are boys 

So my impression is that yes, we have more tup lambs than ewe lambs this year.

There is a theory that a tup (and same for a bull) produces more female offspring when he's younger, and more male offspring when he's older.  Not sure I can confirm that theory, mind.

[Bionic]

I have 5 ewes and they produced 8 lambs, (would have been 9 but 1 was born dead). I have 3 rams and 5 ewes. I don't know what the dead one was.

[FiB]

Sympathies we had 80% ram lamb last year and heading same this year. I do wonder if it is because we have had an old ram both years... Will try younger fella next year.

[mowhaugh]

I had similar problem with my Kerry Hills, and even more frustratingly the two lambs we lost (one stuck in its membrane and suffocated whilst I was assisting something in the other shed and one killed itself by running flat out head first into the stationary quad bike at three weeks old) were both ewe lambs.

[jaykay]

40% tup lambs this year, and about the same last year too.

Got a couple of gimmer lambs I want to keep -  but I'll have to get rid of some ewes/shearlings then, as my flock is big enough for my land already. And I'll have to sell the other gimmer lambs anyway.

[Rosemary]

We have 14 ewes and 6 tups (plus the one that dies was a tup).

[Beeducked]

Been very lucky this year (our first). Out of 4 ewes we've had 6 live and 1 stillborn ewe lambs and only 1 ram lamb. Got a weak ewe lamb who might not make is but the rest are doing brilliantly.

[ZaktheLad]

Just finished my lambing for 2014 and ended up with 14 lambs from 8 ewes - 10 ram lambs and 4 ewe lambs!   

[wellies]

22 lambs here, 12 are ram lambs 10 are ewe lambs. Could have done with a few more Coloured ewe lambs as I'm retaining 2 and already had 2 reserved and that's it for the girls on the coloured side

[mowhaugh]

Can hardly believe it, have lost another Kerry Hill ewe lamb just now.  She was one of a pair who weren't doing as well as I would have liked, this morning we had a big cross ewe had a lamb born with no bottom jaw, so having done what we had to do it was skinned anwe lifted the Kerry Hill from its mum and put it on to the cross ewe, who was thrilled with it, it got a lovely tummy full of milk, then she lay on it and squashed it dead.  Not happy.  We seem to have had more squashed this year than for years, and none of them have been in small pens, one managed to do it outside.

[SallyintNorth]

Oh, that's such a shame mowhaugh