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Purchasing older ewes

  • 11-05-2020 07:41PM
    #1
    OneMan37
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭


    This year was hoping to buy some ewes that have experience lambing. But is it hard to buy good aged sheep or even 2, 3 or 4 year old ewes or maybe even just full mouth ewes. Is buying older ewes a risk ? Is getting genuine older ewes hard ?


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  • #2
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    contact someone with a large flock fairly heavy stocked their full or broken mouth ewes will have had to work for a living but when changed to a different farm get a boost and can preform really well.

    I supply a number of clients with warranted broken mouth ewes (sorry don't have any spare) and provided they follow instructions they have made life very easy for them.


    keep for one year and flog them as culls.(sometimes for more than they were bought at)

    dose, flush, tease for 1 april lambing

    dose scan energy blocks, feed according to scan

    one client is on his third year, first year followed plan 25 ewes lambed outside in 14 days one empty no vet calls (unlike previous years of buying in the mart)
    the next year he got clever and was lambing for months and lost a couple of ewes. this year almost back on track all lambed in 21 days.

    broken mouth horned ewes can work well in this system and SHOULD be the core of the mule production system


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