Scanning

sea12

Scanned today. Luckily could do them in shed. Worked out at 1.64 from the ewes put to ram. I'll put up breakdown later when I get a chance. He said the early flocks were high but the % rate hAd slipped back a bit for the mid season flocks.

Cran

Scanning April lambers tomorrow afternoon. was suppose to go out tonight and tighten them up and remove access to hay. Looking outside I think will sit by the fire, would 4/5 hours fasting do them for scanning?

dave747

Never fast here and results always grand, woudnt be going out in that weather tonight anyway, hope you have a shed to get them in tomorrow aswell

Cran

dave747 wrote: »

Never fast here and results always grand, woudnt be going out in that weather tonight anyway, hope you have a shed to get them in tomorrow aswell

Cheers Dave, 350 yes get them into the shed other 300 no out farms so should be fun

dave747

Hope you have good rain gear ha

sea12

dave747 wrote: »

Never fast here and results always grand, woudnt be going out in that weather tonight anyway, hope you have a shed to get them in tomorrow aswell

Did mine last week. Didn't fasten them either. They were just brought in 30 mins before scanner arrived. He had no difficulty.

Cran

Not long in from finishing scanning, lucky missed most of the rain. Averaged just over 1.8 happy enough with that

glenkeo

Myself and 5 neighbours have all scanned in a bunch for the last few years, with only one or two miss scans between us. This year the company had a new scanner from New Zealand. One of my neighbours rescanned all his singles yesterday and there was 8 out of 32 wrong. After the first scan he was not happy has he said he marked about 25 singles in a row and the scanner was flying through them and complaining about the scanner. He had 80 doubles and 6 trip and the 32 singles at first scan. I am 2 weeks closer to lambing than him so no point in rescanning now not happy!

Farrell

Lambing over, scanning was 100% accurate.
Sadly lost some lambs along the way.
How did you fair out?

paddysdream

Farrell wrote: »

Lambing over, scanning was 100% accurate.
Sadly lost some lambs along the way.
How did you fair out?

Scanning accurate so far on earlies and maincrop(about 100 or so left).To be honest haven't had a wrongly scanned ewe in years.
Just one lamb extra somewhere one morning(drowned in water trough when I found him!).Either a ewe had him,left him and I missed her (doubtful)or a triplet that lambed the same morning had in fact 4(more likely as he and the triplets were quiet small even for multiples)

Lambing going very well(so far!!!)Honest answers;
Lost 12 lambs so far;3 after going outside and only 2 singles in shed,rest were halves of doubles or one of triplets.Very very happy with this as losses usually run at 2 or 3 times this normally.
Also 2 ewes slipped lamb;single and a double.
Have 2 ewes unable to rear lambs(thin with no milk)
Lost 1 ewe after lambing and 1 before they started.
Lambs,esp. doubles ,seem to be a bit smaller this year.
Had a few ewes lamb down with milk only on one side.
Very little handling of ewes or difficult births(bonus of smaller lambs!)
Lambs under a wee bit of pressure outside due to wet weather and lack of grass.
Bit of trouble with mis mothering(due to one bit*h of a black ewe who decided to lick one half of 2 doubles and 4 singles all the one morning)Then had her own lamb later and decided he wasn't really to her liking)

No e coli whatsoever.Think thats due to new shed for pens and ewes after lambing.Up to this year penned in same shed as lambing in due to lack of space.

Thats about it really as its after 2 and time for bed.

Bleating Lamb

Farrell wrote: »

Lambing over, scanning was 100% accurate.
Sadly lost some lambs along the way.
How did you fair out?

As the saying goes,' if ya have livestock ya will have dead stock!'....scanning very useful though cos at least ya know what is having what.

Farrell

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

As the saying goes,' if ya have livestock ya will have dead stock!'....scanning very useful though cos at least ya know what is having what.

Very true.
Let out ewe with trips on Saturday, 2 were stiff on Sunday.
Had another sick to lamb twins, was going away & handled thinking everything looked good, late home & found first lamb caught at shoulder, second followed.
There's always loses, just hard to accept when you could of avoided it

rule supreme

Hi , does anyone have a number for a someone whos scans sheep in the Carlow /Wicklow area .

early_riser

rule supreme wrote: »

Hi , does anyone have a number for a someone whos scans sheep in the Carlow /Wicklow area .

Kieran Byrne 087 2653439 use him here and he fast good setup, and never got any wrong for us anyway

Sheep breeder

sly gorman in tinahely in wicklow, top man the best at the job and a long time doing it,

ganmo

Sean cooney is another scanning man in Wicklow

Sami23

How many weeks/months before expected lambing date do ye think is the best time to scan ewes ?

Nekarsulm

about 90 days after you let the ram in.

ganmo

Nekarsulm wrote: »

about 90 days after you let the ram in.

90 days from when they were tipped.
Too early and you'll get false empties
Too late scanner is more likely to get the number of lambs wrong

hedgecutting eddie

Scanned 101 ewes today had 3 empties , 30 singles, 51 doubles, 17 triplets happy with the scanning

razor8

hedgecutting eddie wrote: »

Scanned 101 ewes today had 3 empties , 30 singles, 51 doubles, 17 triplets happy with the scanning

Very good, what breeds do you keep?

hedgecutting eddie

razor8 wrote: »

Very good, what breeds do you keep?

Suffolk x , Lleyn x

supersean1999

3% is good sorry 2.97% haha. Think if i rem correct the scanner man telling me 6% is the average dry ones.

eire23

Scanned the 55 earlys this morning, 13 triplets, 35 twins and 7 singles
Ended up at 2.1 and all in lamb thankfully.

sako 85

eire23 wrote: »

Scanned the 55 earlys this morning, 13 triplets, 35 twins and 7 singles
Ended up at 2.1 and all in lamb thankfully.

Wow that was some scan, I hope the lambing all goes well for you now.

eire23

sako 85 wrote: »

Wow that was some scan, I hope the lambing all goes well for you now.

Thanks sako, with a bit of luck it will.

sea12

eire23 wrote: »

Scanned the 55 earlys this morning, 13 triplets, 35 twins and 7 singles
Ended up at 2.1 and all in lamb thankfully.

That's a super result. When are you lambing them

eire23

sea12 wrote: »

That's a super result. When are you lambing them

Thanks sea, start lambing early feburary.

supersean1999

Impressive figures them ewes must be in top shape.

eire23

supersean1999 wrote: »

Impressive figures them ewes must be in top shape.

Their lleyn's sean so i would think its more to do with the breed than anything but they are in good shape. The first year i had them i flushed them and scanned 2.4. The last two years i kept them on an even keel so to speak while with the ram and have got 2.1.