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early lambing

  • 10-01-2010 9:54pm
    #1
    mayoireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭


    Our lambing started this week,10 have lambed already and only have 13 lambs,they were flushed and in great condition when let to the ram.last year the sheep werent flushed and out of 20 sheep there were 38 lambs.just wondering is any one else having a bad return ?


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  • #2
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    mayoireland wrote: »
    Our lambing started this week,10 have lambed already and only have 13 lambs,they were flushed and in great condition when let to the ram.last year the sheep werent flushed and out of 20 sheep there were 38 lambs.just wondering is any one else having a bad return ?

    yes we have a lot of singles,

    the weather last august was miserable,


  • #3
    snowman707
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭snowman707


    things are looking better last 16 ewes gave us 30 lambs :D:D

    sent the remainder of last year's hoggets to the abattoir last friday, they netted €109 each, am we foolish to be lambing at this time of the year?

    anybody who bought stores last august or September made a nice profit


  • #4
    mayoireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭mayoireland


    but 08 autumn wasnt great,it a gamble at the best of times.this year was the first year we had all the lambs sold in august.


  • #5
    jm99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭jm99


    we're to start lambing in the next week. when we were scanning our man said it a poor year, alot of places were well below 1.5 lambs/ewe scanned. we got 1.62 so happy enough i suppose


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