At what age to remove ram lambs?

arctictree · 2017-06-24 13:54:57

Lads - at what age would ram lambs need to be removed from the flock? I normally ring castrate them at a couple of days but noticed that I missed a couple this year!

24-06-2017 02:54PM

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Lads - at what age would ram lambs need to be removed from the flock? I normally ring castrate them at a couple of days but noticed that I missed a couple this year!

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#2 25-06-2017 10:02PM

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arctictree wrote: »

Lads - at what age would ram lambs need to be removed from the flock? I normally ring castrate them at a couple of days but noticed that I missed a couple this year!

you'll know when you see first signs of them trying to jump ewes in field, which is when I used to do mine before started weaning earlier. Probably OK until August, but stand to be corrected.

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#3 02-07-2017 07:15PM

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On our farm, Ram lambs are removed from the ewes at weaning in late June/early july. We leave them with ewe lambs for about 2 weeks after weaning and then separate them. We probably don't need to take them away from ewe lambs until at least mid August but I don't want to take any chances with them

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