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painfully slow lambing

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  • #32
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭eire23


    Finnished lambing the early ones yesterday. percentage wise worked out at 1.98 lambs per ewe on the ground. Nearly twice as many ewe lambs than ram lambs as well which is a change from last year. The rest are starting from the 1st of april so hopefully the weather will have picked up by then.


  • #33
    AnFeirmeoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭AnFeirmeoir


    eire23 wrote: »
    Finnished lambing the early ones yesterday. percentage wise worked out at 1.98 lambs per ewe on the ground. Nearly twice as many ewe lambs than ram lambs as well which is a change from last year. The rest are starting from the 1st of april so hopefully the weather will have picked up by then.

    Great percentage .


  • #34
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭razor8


    eire23 wrote: »
    Finnished lambing the early ones yesterday. percentage wise worked out at 1.98 lambs per ewe on the ground. Nearly twice as many ewe lambs than ram lambs as well which is a change from last year. The rest are starting from the 1st of april so hopefully the weather will have picked up by then.

    Very good percentage, not many hitting that. What's breeds are ya carrying?


  • #35
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭eire23


    Cheers razor, they were purebred lleyn put to a lleyn ram


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