how many ewes

hedgecutting eddie

how many ewes is enough for one man 500-700 to handle .how many would one man need to make a gud living from?

Cran

depends on the breeds and the approach, i'm currently handling 600 part time. have some help one day a week and old man looks at them during day etc but believe I could handle 1000 easily enough in current set-up if was full time

jtex

depends on breed, time per unit, value of lamb, lambing %,time form birth to sale and lambs reared per ewe. number depends on system and how you structure your lambing etc. if done right i'd say 600 @ 1.85% lambs per ewe is workable. but again set up is key

rahin man

Eddie

This may be slightly off topic but i worked on a farm in australia for about 18 months in 2001 - 2002 and my first lambing season i thought i was back in kildalton and went up to my first lambing and swung the lamb by its legs to clear him etc.
The boss saw what i was at and told me "fcuk em mate let the foxes sort them out"
After that thats what id. let the foxes sort them!

We ran 10 000 ewes and only had 7000 salable lambs per year.

My point is 3 of us ran the farm along with the tillage so its really about how much work you put in?
(shearing and dosing was contracted out admittedly)

hedgecutting eddie

rahin man wrote: »

Eddie

This may be slightly off topic but i worked on a farm in australia for about 18 months in 2001 - 2002 and my first lambing season i thought i was back in kildalton and went up to my first lambing and swung the lamb by its legs to clear him etc.
The boss saw what i was at and told me "fcuk em mate let the foxes sort them out"
After that thats what id. let the foxes sort them!

We ran 10 000 ewes and only had 7000 salable lambs per year.

My point is 3 of us ran the farm along with the tillage so its really about how much work you put in?
(shearing and dosing was contracted out admittedly)

what year wer u in kildalton

rahin man

95 - 96 2 days a week . did the nat cert in ag in waterford it.

used to fight the full time students in preachers.

Those were the days.....