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

farawaygrass · 03-01-2017 01:10PM

davidk1394 wrote: »

Just finished scanning. 2.5 hours and scanned 550 ewes. Looks good but will know for sure later

It'll be worth your while getting the 10e/ewe!!

charolais0153 · 03-01-2017 01:48PM

farawaygrass wrote: »

It'll be worth your while getting the 10e/ewe!!

I think he said in main forum he was considering going to dairy

davidk1394 · 03-01-2017 02:23PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

I think he said in main forum he was considering going to dairy

Still with the sheep at the moment but the 10 extra will be useful

stantheman1979 · 03-01-2017 04:49PM

Just going through things there now. We scanned 1.92 last yr. Barren rate of 3.9%. Before lambing we sold 50 singles and replaced them with good horneys in lamb with twins. We also sold 25 ewes with singles that i didnt like who had lost a lamb, prolapse or footrot history etc. Including pet lambs sold on done deal we had 1580 lambs to sell/replacements.
That works out 1.88 per ewe put to ram. Ave weaning weight was 31kg which gives each ewe producing 57.5 kg of lamb at weaning which im happy about considering the bad start they got.

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 05:11PM

A friend is after scanning 2.7......wouldn't it terrify ya of using belclare rams for replacements

charolais0153 · 06-01-2017 05:41PM

rangler1 wrote: »

A friend is after scanning 2.7......wouldn't it terrify ya of using belclare rams for replacements

Ffs .so is that belclare ewes that are pure or what.

razor8 · 06-01-2017 05:48PM

rangler1 wrote: »

A friend is after scanning 2.7......wouldn't it terrify ya of using belclare rams for replacements

Good spot for a work placement

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 06:53PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ffs .so is that belclare ewes that are pure or what.

They're not pure, probably half and three quarter bred, he has everywhere reseeded so it'd be topclass grass,
He had 140 pets last year after scanning 2.4.

Green farmer · 06-01-2017 08:19PM

rangler1 wrote: »

He had 140 pets last year after scanning 2.4.

Life's too short for that kind of misery.

J.O. Farmer · 06-01-2017 08:24PM

Green farmer wrote: »

Life's too short for that kind of misery.

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.

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 08:30PM

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.

There'd be no singles available to foster at those percentages, he has a machine to rear the pets.
Don't think he's scanned the ewe lambs yet...he'd have more lambs in his ewe lambs than I'd have in my adult ewes

stantheman1979 · 06-01-2017 08:46PM

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

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 08:50PM

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

near 300 and about 100 ewe lambs

stantheman1979 · 06-01-2017 08:52PM

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.

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 08:56PM

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.

Rears great lambs too but it costs, lambs seem to take to it very easy

stantheman1979 · 06-01-2017 08:58PM

Again very impressive numbers. When you've only small numbers like that every lamb matters and he's doing a good job by the looks of it . With that number of ewes it's easier to handle triplets and quads

White Clover · 06-01-2017 08:59PM

Would the lambs be very small?

stantheman1979 · 06-01-2017 09:02PM

Yeah they pick it up very easy. They've a constant supply of warm milk. It's costly to rear them to weaning. We estimate each lamb drinks almost a bag of milk powder to weaning plus creep on top of that!! So it's not for everyone

charolais0153 · 06-01-2017 09:03PM

White Clover wrote: »

Would the lambs be very small?

I imagine so. Does he have many ewes/ha @rangler

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 09:05PM

White Clover wrote: »

Would the lambs be very small?

I doubt it, they'd be well fed, silage all 75DMD as well,
Have never been there for the lambing, he'd have a good crew for the month of march

rangler1 · 06-01-2017 09:33PM

charolais0153 wrote: »

I imagine so. Does he have many ewes/ha @rangler

He was 2016 farming indo sheep farmer of the year,
Here's a link to his profile
Y'all know him I'd say

http://www.independent.ie/business/farming/prolific-and-profitable-34455121.html

sheepfarmer92 · 06-01-2017 11:59PM

Thats some serious goin from that man, we visited that place a few years ago, hes set up for that system and i would say it is as profitable as you can get in sheep farming but a alot of work! Definitly making the most of every acre, wouldnt like to be doin it with a thousand ewes though

jmrc · 09-01-2017 02:04PM

scanned 130 on Saturday morning in 25 minutes...

now that is a good mornings work...!

lad that scans for us scanned 900 ewes on Friday in 3 hours.. all shorn belclare cross.

DJ98 · 09-01-2017 05:32PM

jmrc wrote: »

scanned 130 on Saturday morning in 25 minutes...

now that is a good mornings work...!

lad that scans for us scanned 900 ewes on Friday in 3 hours.. all shorn belclare cross.

How aacurate is he at that going?

mcgiggles · 13-01-2017 07:43PM

Oh well f*ck it anyways. Scanned today, 32 ewes, 11singles, 11 doubles, 1 triplet and f*cking 9 empty. Scanner said some had lambs and lost them. All separated now. Can you get blood tests or anything done to see why they aborted? Himself is like a bull. Don't know what happened. We bought in 12 hoggets for breeding and most of them were grand the most of the emptys all had lambs last year. Will have to check back in the diary and see if they had hard lambing last year or anything. He also said he didn't get to flush them properly before the ram went with them so their condition might not have been great. Going to the shop now for a takeaway and beer for him.

razor8 · 13-01-2017 07:51PM

Get them blood tested for toxo. Sounds like it. Did you have a ewe that aborted a few weeks ago or was that someone else on here?

Scanner cancelled for me tomorrow after getting herself off work to mind children and moving some sheep home. Ripping

mcgiggles · 13-01-2017 08:10PM

razor8 wrote:

Get them blood tested for toxo. Sounds like it. Did you have a ewe that aborted a few weeks ago or was that someone else on here?

Yep that was us last week. So that's 10 out of 33. We've 10 more ewes this year than last year and less lambs due :-( Horrible numbers. Not a happy house this evening. Friday the 13th indeed.

Ah sh*te Razor that's crap about the scanner :-(

rangler1 · 13-01-2017 08:16PM

mcgiggles wrote: »

Oh well f*ck it anyways. Scanned today, 32 ewes, 11singles, 11 doubles, 1 triplet and f*cking 9 empty. Scanner said some had lambs and lost them. All separated now. Can you get blood tests or anything done to see why they aborted? Himself is like a bull. Don't know what happened. We bought in 12 hoggets for breeding and most of them were grand the most of the emptys all had lambs last year. Will have to check back in the diary and see if they had hard lambing last year or anything. He also said he didn't get to flush them properly before the ram went with them so their condition might not have been great. Going to the shop now for a takeaway and beer for him.

Sounds very like toxo, or maybe run with dogs before the embryo properly implanted. A blood test will show toxo if they've had it, might need a swab as well, talk to your vet, I've heard it can be diagnosed from saliva as well.

rangler1 · 13-01-2017 08:28PM

mcgiggles wrote: »

Yep that was us last week. So that's 10 out of 33. We've 10 more ewes this year than last year and less lambs due :-( Horrible numbers. Not a happy house this evening. Friday the 13th indeed.

Ah sh*te Razor that's crap about the scanner :-(

A neighbour had early toxo that aborted 80 ewes and he put the rams back with them early january for a fortnight, 55 lambed after

tomwaterford · 13-01-2017 10:36PM

rangler1 wrote: »

A neighbour had early toxo that aborted 80 ewes and he put the rams back with them early january for a fortnight, 55 lambed after

Anythibg to be said for sponging them in this scenario

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

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