Changing Raddle Colour.

Western Pomise

Isn't it 17 or 18 days after introducing ram with one raddle colour the best time to switch to a different raddle colour to judge the number of repeats?

Thanks for any replies.

ganmo

17
Changed the raddle colour earlier today after 14 days. Don't have the time during the week to get them in

Bullocks

ganmo wrote: »

17
Changed the raddle colour earlier today after 14 days. Don't have the time during the week to get them in

I tried to catch our lad at the trough to raddle him up but he was too strong to hold the fecker out the garden !
I reckon he has most of them covered anyhow, how long do ye tend to leave the rams in with the ewes

Farrell

Bullocks wrote: »

I tried to catch our lad at the trough to raddle him up but he was too strong to hold the fecker out the garden !
I reckon he has most of them covered anyhow, how long do ye tend to leave the rams in with the ewes

Generally I'd take away when last is tipped, or if you've a cut off date for breeding season.

Bullocks

Farrell wrote: »

Generally I'd take away when last is tipped, or if you've a cut off date for breeding season.

Tomorrow is 3 weeks so I think thats long enough to be watching them for lambing . I reckon they are all tipped now

Username John

Bullocks wrote: »

Tomorrow is 3 weeks so I think thats long enough to be watching them for lambing . I reckon they are all tipped now

I had my ram in for 3 weeks last year - and 90% were in lamb.
Will you scan em bullocks? I scanned mine at Christmas, then fattened and sold any empties...

As I have ewe lambs this year, I might leave him in for 4 weeks, will see. He is only in for 1 week so far...

Western Pomise

Would usually leave them in for three 17/18 days cycles here,would swop the rams around after the second cycle just to cover eventuality of one not performing well.Often find that the few 'late' lambs born from mid April on are great thrivers so don't take rams out too quickly.

Username John

Western Pomise wrote: »

Would usually leave them in for three 17/18 days cycles here,would swop the rams around after the second cycle just to cover eventuality of one not performing well.Often find that the few 'late' lambs born from mid April on are great thrivers so don't take rams out too quickly.

How do you manage such a long lambing (as that'd be over 7 weeks would it?)
I don't think you're full time are you?

I ask, as I take holidays for lambing, which sinewy I only leave the ram in for a short time... But interested in hearing how / what others do.

Green farmer

Username John wrote: »

.. But interested in hearing how / what others do.

I keep lambing shed open for 3 weeks here. Any left to lamb after that are brought into my back garden and lamb themselves down. I keep an eye on them out window. Wife ain't too pleased with me though.

Bullocks

Username John wrote: »

I had my ram in for 3 weeks last year - and 90% were in lamb.
Will you scan em bullocks? I scanned mine at Christmas, then fattened and sold any empties...

As I have ewe lambs this year, I might leave him in for 4 weeks, will see. He is only in for 1 week so far...

Ya I'll scan around Christmas and get rid of anything empty, hopefully I'll have an empty ewe lamb for the freezer aswell!

Western Pomise

Username John wrote: »

How do you manage such a long lambing (as that'd be over 7 weeks would it?)
I don't think you're full time are you?

I ask, as I take holidays for lambing, which sinewy I only leave the ram in for a short time... But interested in hearing how / what others do.

Only P/T.....get the ewes scanned,try to plan hols to go with busiest ten days of lambing, late lambers/barren ewes at initial scanning are scanned secondly and fed less nuts,they lamb unwatched.

Cran

Green farmer wrote: »

I keep lambing shed open for 3 weeks here. Any left to lamb after that are brought into my back garden and lamb themselves down. I keep an eye on them out window. Wife ain't too pleased with me though.

This is like me with the pedigrees, yard is 2 miles around the road and missues was giving out about me constantly heading up/down to shed and staying for hours. Paddock beside the house I said any problems if I put up a small tunnel? So now bring them up week before due and can look out kitchen window with lights on in tunnel. Its better than lambing live on bbc

The main flock here we lamb 95% in 15/16 days normally, and majority in middle 10 days of that. Guy lambing here last yr with me thought I was joking when told him until it kick off...

arctictree

Made a bit of an arse of the raddling here. The first colour, blue, is very faint and barely noticeable on some of the ewes even though I changed it every two days. I'm going to have to assume some of the ewes with no raddle are in the first lot. I think I mixed it too light. The last ones with red on them look like they were swimming in it!

Do ye think any of the ewes could go through two cycles without being tipped?