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What do people usually scan at and what your final percentage?

DJ98

As above- last year scanned 1.4, weaned 1.0

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Farrell

razor8 wrote: »

Main Ewes scannned around 1.95 and last year horned ewes scanned 1.7, ewe lambs scanned 1.8

I sold/weaned 1.7 average across all sheep from when the ram went out including ewe lambs so hoping can do the same next year

Would you cull ewes that have singles 2 years in a row?

Farm365

Dickie10 wrote: »

Hampshire downs are great, they are very easy lambed and very vigours when born. they pile on weight, you will be killing them at 20kg deadweight around 12 weeks. i lamb 1st feb to 28th feb and i always have at least 40 lambs gone by june 1st to factory out of around 75 ewes, weather dependent on dryish spring with growth coming at the average time of year. 80% of the lambs gone in this timeframe are usually HD. i sell to factory on flat grade so im not worried about U and R but it would be 50-50 anyway.

The beauty of these HDs is also from October onwards, they come fat without meal in Autumn and very little meal will fatten after xmas. they naturally fatten much like Angus cattle. another plus is a wet cold night outside at a week old they will be grand, have a little bob of wool on their head acts like a hat

Are they a purely terminal breed? They sound very impressive great growth rates etc What are they like off worm resistance? Is it hard to source rams?

razor8

Main Ewes scannned around 1.95 and last year horned ewes scanned 1.7, ewe lambs scanned 1.8

I sold/weaned 1.7 average across all sheep from when the ram went out including ewe lambs so hoping can do the same next year

Dickie10

forgot to say my experince with hamshires in winter as stores is that i lamb ewe lambs to hamshire ram in april, so these are lambs i might have at time of year.

Dickie10

Farm365 wrote: »

Found the same with Texels got rid of them a few years ago very tight to lamb. Have just introduced LLeyn breeding looking forward to seeing the results. How do you find the Hampshire Downs?

Hampshire downs are great, they are very easy lambed and very vigours when born. they pile on weight, you will be killing them at 20kg deadweight around 12 weeks. i lamb 1st feb to 28th feb and i always have at least 40 lambs gone by june 1st to factory out of around 75 ewes, weather dependent on dryish spring with growth coming at the average time of year. 80% of the lambs gone in this timeframe are usually HD. i sell to factory on flat grade so im not worried about U and R but it would be 50-50 anyway.

The beauty of these HDs is also from October onwards, they come fat without meal in Autumn and very little meal will fatten after xmas. they naturally fatten much like Angus cattle. another plus is a wet cold night outside at a week old they will be grand, have a little bob of wool on their head acts like a hat

mcgiggles

We scanned at 1.7 last year and weaned 1.5. scanning was all over the place though, out of our 21 or so, about 5 were completely wrong..

Farm365

Dickie10 wrote: »

keep lleyn cross ewes so half lleyn and quater maybe texel/cheviot/suffolk/horny.
trying to keep away from half texel ewes, there like belgian blue cows very tight and put too much into a lamb. got rid of suffolk ram too. now have hampshire down and texel rams. i found every hard lambing i had came from a texel type ewe.

Found the same with Texels got rid of them a few years ago very tight to lamb. Have just introduced LLeyn breeding looking forward to seeing the results. How do you find the Hampshire Downs?

Dickie10

Farm365 wrote: »

That's a great result. What type of ewes do you keep?

keep lleyn cross ewes so half lleyn and quater maybe texel/cheviot/suffolk/horny.
trying to keep away from half texel ewes, there like belgian blue cows very tight and put too much into a lamb. got rid of suffolk ram too. now have hampshire down and texel rams. i found every hard lambing i had came from a texel type ewe.

Green farmer

charolais0153 wrote: »

To lose 20 lambs that would be ~12% mortality already for us. Ad you get bigger your going to lose more lambs as your attention gets divided.

Exactly what happened to a mate of mine that lambs about 400 a year. Put a batch out into a field and was flat out lambing the next lot. Only spotted it a week later when lambs began to look scare in field, of course took him another few nights to catch the culprit, who had profected the art of lamb pinching. Think he lost north of 20 in the end.

sheepfarmer92

Last year ewes scan 1.8 ewe lambs scan 1 and wean 1.6 overall, wouldnt like to scan much higher

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Remember reading a teagasc report somewhere that the average farm can have up to 20% losses. Best farms can keep it Down to 10%. Id be somewhere in between. Know lads that would be doing well, but all it takes is for a rogue fox to take 20 lambs unnoticed and all of a sudden your %'s go to pot.

To lose 20 lambs that would be ~12% mortality already for us. Ad you get bigger your going to lose more lambs as your attention gets divided.

rangler1

Not great here, had 1.6 including retained ewe lambs (if the last 16 live another week) from 400 ewes and 1 from 120 ewe lambs.
Have slipped a lot in the last few years, ......don't know whether I want any higher at this stage
One advantage of the low lamb crop is less losses, ours was 6% from scanning to now and has been for the last few years

Green farmer

Remember reading a teagasc report somewhere that the average farm can have up to 20% losses. Best farms can keep it Down to 10%. Id be somewhere in between. Know lads that would be doing well, but all it takes is for a rogue fox to take 20 lambs unnoticed and all of a sudden your %'s go to pot.

Cran

Normally between 1.85 & 1.9 lower end last year, wean 1.7

tomwaterford

Scanned 1.66 weaned 1.6....

I was a bit sleep deprived by end of lambing (work aswell)

..but it's 6 weeks is all....just has to be got through.

charolais0153

Weaned 1.7 thisyear would have scanned 1.8 and upwards (can't remember). Will be scanning in two weeks time so will let ye know

Farm365

Dickie10 wrote: »

scanned 1.85 last year, weaned 1.7

That's a great result. What type of ewes do you keep?

Dickie10

scanned 1.85 last year, weaned 1.7