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  • #32
    rangler1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,497 ✭✭✭rangler1


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Rangler, would the vendeen suit out door lambing? Are they a good seller when going through the mart. Thanks, Mac

    Very busy here, sorry for not answering your question before now, we don't do outdoor lambing here, but we've always found vendeens hardy and never have had to bring many back in after they going out at 24 - 36 hrs old.
    Even the year of the snow at the end of march (2010 I think), I lost only three lambs out of about 250 lambs where the ewes crowded in to a corner and walked on the lambs......all the lambs were like pigs covered in mud the next morning.......don't know how the ewes sorted them,
    Some lines of charolais can be very bare at birth but other lines are fine.
    A lot of feeders like vendeens as store lambs, they grow well and kill well, ours would be killing out at 47% of full weight and they don't easily go over fat


  • #33
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Very busy here, sorry for not answering your question before now, we don't do outdoor lambing here, but we've always found vendeens hardy and never have had to bring many back in after they going out at 24 - 36 hrs old.
    Even the year of the snow at the end of march (2010 I think), I lost only three lambs out of about 250 lambs where the ewes crowded in to a corner and walked on the lambs......all the lambs were like pigs covered in mud the next morning.......don't know how the ewes sorted them,
    Some lines of charolais can be very bare at birth but other lines are fine.
    A lot of feeders like vendeens as store lambs, they grow well and kill well, ours would be killing out at 47% of full weight and they don't easily go over fat

    Thanks for the reply rangler. Hope lambing is going well for you.


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