Is the Ram out yet ?

Sami23

Just wondering has anyone the Ram out yet or when do ye intend letting him out ?
I'll be either letting him off this Friday or Friday week

AntrimGlens

Have a charolais ram that gets seriously horny this time of year. Two years ago a neighbour found him on the road about two miles from the field i had put him in with the other rams. I see he had broke out again the other day into the ewes after someone left a gate open and he managed to get across two well fenced fields to get to the ewes.
It doesn't help that i have some dorset ewes that are the most flirty sluts that you could want about the place and stand near gates teasing the poor rams.
Won't go out here to 24th October.

gazahayes

Two teasers out since Saturday will take them out this Saturday and rams in Saturday week for 5 weeks. Worked well last year 6 not in lamb out of 78 including ewe lambs.

Cran

Out here 31st October, bit odd as scanning 20 pedigrees 10th October and will book scan date for January then. So scan date booked before rams are even released, must be getting old as I plan things now!

arctictree

4th October worked well for me last year, so am planning on doing it again. Split the flock last year and ended up lambing for about 8 weeks. Going to run them as one lot this year and hopefully will be down to 4 or 5 weeks.

Username John

gazahayes wrote: »

Two teasers out since Saturday will take them out this Saturday and rams in Saturday week for 5 weeks. Worked well last year 6 not in lamb out of 78 including ewe lambs.

So you put the teasers in for 1 week, then take em out and then 1 week later proper rams in?

Teasers in here either Oct 4th or 11th
Then proper ram in on the 24th Oct

(My plans are a bit upset with work this year, as have to be away middle 2 weeks of October... which doesn't suit me)

gazahayes

Username John wrote: »

So you put the teasers in for 1 week, then take em out and then 1 week later proper rams in?

Teasers in here either Oct 4th or 11th
Then proper ram in on the 24th Oct

(My plans are a bit upset with work this year, as have to be away middle 2 weeks of October... which doesn't suit me)

Yeah read it somewhere so decided to try that way. Used to just let out a small ram for 24 to 48 hours about 10 days before the rams but he started tipping a few even though he was only about 30 kgs!!

solerina

Rams here getting fairly cross with each other won't be letting them off till mid Nov....going to be great fun keeping them under control. Some would do well in the Grand National !!!

Dickie10

let out 3 rams hampshire down, texel and suffolk to 76 ewes on sept 5th, bit disapointed with how slow the ewes are coming on its now 23 sept and still have 12 unmarked. if i had a teaser ram it would have been the job mite get one next year

charolais0153

Day after tomorow theyre going out atexel a charollais and a Suffolk to 102 ewes.split evenly.put out ram with a bag tied around him two weeks ago today.put harnesses on rams Monday to get the ram used to them.never had them on the rams before only ever used raddle

jd06

charolais0153 wrote: »

Day after tomorow theyre going out atexel a charollais and a Suffolk to 102 ewes.split evenly.put out ram with a bag tied around him two weeks ago today.put harnesses on rams Monday to get the ram used to them.never had them on the rams before only ever used raddle

Never seen the bag used, how is it tied up

Birdnuts

Not for another month at least. We got a new Texel ram recently thats still getting his bearings.

razor8

Seen a picture somewhere today where you can buy a harness to stop rams tipping and I can't find it anywhere now

AnFeirmeoir

Always put in 1 ram but thinking of putting 2 in together. They're good buddies. Do ye think this will be ok ?

fanadman1

Droped mine out today 3 rams with 75 mature ewes. Split into groups simply cause the sheep are so differnt ha. Also sent out the ram to my ewe lambs dont expect much to near the 1st of nov but it will keep him happy to be in company

Ard_MC

Mid Nov here, Got a new texel 2 weeks ago and need to track down a Mayo aged ram somewhere yet!

fanadman1

Ard_MC wrote: »

Mid Nov here, Got a new texel 2 weeks ago and need to track down a Mayo aged ram somewhere yet!

There was one on done deal recently

tomwaterford

Anyone know the exact ins/outs of 'flushing' sheep...I've a good amount of grass built ahead of em


**maybe this is for new thread??

ganmo

2 rams made 4k in blessington last weekend!

sako 85

Seen a video of both rams being auctioned on Facebook. I believe they both went up to the Donegal Breeders

ganmo

sako 85 wrote: »

Seen a video of both rams being auctioned on Facebook. I believe they both went up to the Donegal Breeders

from the same owner too

sako 85

ganmo wrote: »

from the same owner too

Nice day out for him alright. did you happen to hear what the general run of price at the sale was?

ganmo

sako 85 wrote: »

Nice day out for him alright. did you happen to hear what the general run of price at the sale was?

unfortunately no. third hand info

davidk1394

Left out the zwartable ram with some of the texel ewes. The 2 blue texels and 4 charlaois are going out today. Have to buy another maternal ram. Any suggestions?

Cran

davidk1394 wrote: »

Left out the zwartable ram with some of the texel ewes. The 2 blue texels and 4 charlaois are going out today. Have to buy another maternal ram. Any suggestions?

Lleyn would be a good bet

davidk1394

Cran wrote: »

Lleyn would be a good bet

Heard a bit about them but you wouldn't see them down these parts of the country

DMAXMAN

out here since last Friday.rams seem very busy

Bleating Lamb

sako 85 wrote: »

Nice day out for him alright. did you happen to hear what the general run of price at the sale was?

Heard that overall good quality rams were about €100 each dearer than similiar stock at same sale last yr,anything of any quality was €700+

DJ98

If ram went out today what date would you expect lambs next march?

fanadman1

DJ98 wrote: »

If ram went out today what date would you expect lambs next march?

5th of March by my counting but you would be watching from the 3rd onwards. 5 month less 5 days for easy counting

ganmo

its a leap year :P the 4th

today +146 days
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?d1=10&m1=10&y1=2015&type=add&ay=&am=&aw=&ad=146&rec=

tomwaterford

Nearly a thrid of mine tipped in two days...interesting to see if/how many repeat?
Would there Be much difference in preqancy lengths like in Bulls?

ganmo

tomwaterford wrote: »

Nearly a thrid of mine tipped in two days...interesting to see if/how many repeat?
Would there Be much difference in preqancy lengths like in Bulls?

depends more on how many she's got in her more than anything else

TITANIUM.

Lad's how many ewes do leave a ram to?
As in is there a rule of thumb 1 ram to X amount of ewes?

PaddyPerfecto

If it's a mature ram then 1-50 ewes but make sure he's working well incase you need another ram to go in, is it a new ram? It does vary, if the ram gets lame you will need extra ram power too!

Cran

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Lad's how many ewes do leave a ram to?
As in is there a rule of thumb 1 ram to X amount of ewes?

Would let Rams out with 70/80 here no problem, normally don't anymore as throw April ram lambs out with them as have them so might as well. January lambs get 30 or so each

rangler1

Cran wrote: »

Would let Rams out with 70/80 here no problem, normally don't anymore as throw April ram lambs out with them as have them so might as well. January lambs get 30 or so each

it'd usually be 4 rams and a ram lamb to each group of 200 ewes here,

TITANIUM.

PaddyPerfecto wrote: »

If it's a mature ram then 1-50 ewes but make sure he's working well incase you need another ram to go in, is it a new ram? It does vary, if the ram gets lame you will need extra ram power too!

I have a 5 year old texel and a 3 year old suffock to go to 100 ewes. There in good enough auld shape so i Should be covered.

Green farmer

Just flushing the ewes at the moment. Thinking about leaving rams out at end of week here.

razor8

All out since last Saturday and going along the same as most years. Have a 3 year old charloais out with 100 ewes and he had 37 tipped this morning

AntrimGlens

Does anyone get their Rams fertility tested before letting them off? Always hear and read articles about 10% of Rams being infertile or sub fertile but I know of no-one round here who tests their ram. I don't either for that matter.

rangler1

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Does anyone get their Rams fertility tested before letting them off? Always hear and read articles about 10% of Rams being infertile or sub fertile but I know of no-one round here who tests their ram. I don't either for that matter.

Local vet does it here, charges €50, but I'd only do ones that ewes were repeating on or if a customer claimed a ram wasn't working. Now that the pedigrees are gone and I'm not doing sponging and single sire mating, I won't have a clue, The rams go in bunches of four to the crossbreds, so it'll be hard to know they're all fertile

Green farmer

When are you going letting the rams out rangler ?

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

When are you going letting the rams out rangler ?

Put rams with the first group on the 1st oct and with the second group on last Monday....ewe lambs will be mated from 5th November.
Ewe lambs still have to be tagged and vaccinated before mating

tomwaterford

Have Rams in 14 days....all bar 2 hoggets tipped

Be interesting to see how many repeats :L

rangler1

tomwaterford wrote: »

Have Rams in 14 days....all bar 2 hoggets tipped

Be interesting to see how many repeats :L

Ewes in good condition come in heat very fast in October, I 'd always have 90% + of the groups lambed in the first 17 days

tomwaterford

rangler1 wrote: »

Ewes in good condition come in heat very fast in October, I 'd always have 90% + of the groups lambed in the first 17 days

It's the best I ever had....Jesus hopefully they'll not repeat!
Hopefully I'll get the percentages up!!

Farrell

rangler1 wrote: »

Ewes in good condition come in heat very fast in October, I 'd always have 90% + of the groups lambed in the first 17 days

Do you sponge?

ganmo

rams were put out last weekend (2 with 80 odd ewes)
checked them this evenin only 10% marked
gonna be a slow start to lambing

hope to get them in and change the raddle colour this weekend

rangler1

Farrell wrote: »

Do you sponge?

No, I don't sponge the crosbreds, I keep the rams out of sight and smell of them all year and then put them in the adjoining paddock 14 days before they're joined, so they are well primed and most of them will come in in that first 17 days

Username John

Ram gone with the ewes there this evening... Mix of ewes and ewe lambs.

Teaser was in with them for almost 3 weeks, so we'll see how we'll do...

Ram will only be in for 3 weeks, 4 max. So be interesting to see how the ewe lambs do...