Early Lambers

Dickie10

anyone early lambing this year? have you started already? keep us posted

Hard Knocks

Dickie10 wrote: »

anyone early lambing this year? have you started already? keep us posted

Should be starting in the middle of the month
Not as prepared as other years

Sheep breeder

Starting the 10 of January and trying to get ready,

Dickie10

great weather for anyone at it now

Lambman

Not lambing myself but giving neighbor a hand with purebred suffolks all ET so thick and fast.

early_riser

First double this morning when i went out. 2 hardy little lambs up sucking and all, didnt think i was starting till the weekend so was a nice surprise to start off the new year!!

wrangler

early_riser wrote: »

First double this morning when i went out. 2 hardy little lambs up sucking and all, didnt think i was starting till the weekend so was a nice surprise to start off the new year!!

We'd have lambing started at 142 days from service, before that it's hard to keep them alive, average here would be 147 days

Buford T. Justice XIX

First losses today, one ewe lay on a twin and just lost a ewe after a hard lambing. The lamb was probably a schmallenberg lamb, the neck twisted back and fused and another mummified lamb in there. The vet put her down, poor girl:(

early_riser

wrangler wrote: »

We'd have lambing started at 142 days from service, before that it's hard to keep them alive, average here would be 147 days

Would the leyns lamb a bit earlier? Another double and a single today, all 3 ewes are leyn crosses. Average here usually around 147 or 148 aswell mostly suffolk crosses in the early lambers

early_riser

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

First losses today, one ewe lay on a twin and just lost a ewe after a hard lambing. The lamb was probably a schmallenberg lamb, the neck twisted back and fused and another mummified lamb in there. The vet put her down, poor girl:(

Have not heard of any schmallenberg around here yet thankfully, but wonder will it be a problem this year, probably were plenty of midges around with the fine summer

wrangler

early_riser wrote: »

Would the leyns lamb a bit earlier? Another double and a single today, all 3 ewes are leyn crosses. Average here usually around 147 or 148 aswell mostly suffolk crosses in the early lambers

No, pedigree vendeens here were always sponged so we knew the exact date of service and they'd lamb between 142 and 150 days too

Buford T. Justice XIX

early_riser wrote: »

Have not heard of any schmallenberg around here yet thankfully, but wonder will it be a problem this year, probably were plenty of midges around with the fine summer

A neighbour scanned cows earlier this year as in calf but had a few strange losses and empty cows his vet put down to Schmallenberg. Hope it's fairly isolated anyway.

early_riser

Going alright here, a few loses but no idle ewes so far, 4 out of 4 successful adoptions so happy with that. Weather is great, very handy being able to let lambs out after 2 days this time of the year, going out onto nice pick of grass and strip grazing leafy turnips. Lambs flying outside, really thriving so far. Hope this cold spell they are forecasting at the end of the month isnt to bad.