stantheman1979 wrote: » We bought a machine to rear pets a few years ago. Excellent purchase. Just put the triplets in at a day old and u can build up them until they're ready to foster. We rear the twins from the ewe lambs on it. We paid €1500 same machine is over€2000 now.
stantheman1979 wrote: » Impressive work!! How many ewes does he have. A little too good being honest. On the positive side all the ewes have two lambs and you've pets to sell. At €80 that's €11,200 not to be sniffed at
J.O. Farmer wrote: » It might not be too bad when you get into that kind of numbers. There'd be potential to invest in a system to artificially rear them and just not bother with too much fostering.
Green farmer wrote: » Life's too short for that kind of misery.
rangler1 wrote: » He had 140 pets last year after scanning 2.4.
charolais0153 wrote: » Ffs .so is that belclare ewes that are pure or what.
rangler1 wrote: » A friend is after scanning 2.7......wouldn't it terrify ya of using belclare rams for replacements
charolais0153 wrote: » I think he said in main forum he was considering going to dairy
farawaygrass wrote: » It'll be worth your while getting the 10e/ewe!!
davidk1394 wrote: » Just finished scanning. 2.5 hours and scanned 550 ewes. Looks good but will know for sure later
charolais0153 wrote: » What kind of ewes ?belclre? Phenomenal scan btw
farawaygrass wrote: » Ya that's what scanner said too. I'm a Small bit apprehensive, will be glad to get legs on the ground.
Username John wrote: » Jaysus, that's a scan rate of about 2.17 is it?
farawaygrass wrote: » 11 singles 60 couples 33 triplets 2 dry. Hope they come ok now, a lot of triplets. Ewes were in serious good condition, too good. I'll delay feeding them and hope it won't cause problems down the line
charolais0153 wrote: » No singles in ewes?
cattle man wrote: » Scanned on Wednesday super happy. 5 empty 117 twins 37 triplets 2 quads 1.98 lambs per ewe including drys. Ewe lambs 9 empty 17 singles 5 twins Ram only with these for 4 weeks didn't want the thing dragging on for ever.
jmurfy wrote: » Out of 90 ewes sulfocks and texel cross 22 singles 54 doubles 8 triplets 1 quad 5 empties 1.75 scan rate I usually only have around 2 empties. Do ye cull empty ewes or keep until following year?
Username John wrote: » Only spotted this now Charolais, that's a very good scan rate... What are your ewes? Do you have all Suffolky ewes? (I though you put up a pic of nice black faced ewes earlier?)
