I recall making a worrying prediction about the lambing weather in early March. Well we largely dodged that snow bullet, with very little collateral damage. Very few mastitis cases – under 2%, and most of those out in the field, a couple of weeks after lambing. Apart from those “casualties”, lambing went remarkably smoothly. I
July 1st 2016 Lambing is now well behind us, having finished in mid April. I was reasonably pleased with a live lambing ratio (post 2 days after lambing) of a shade under 180%. Sheep were brought in very early in early January due to the atrocious wet weather. I was concerned that the
I am aware of the rather large gap since the last update on here for which apologies. Looking back over the back end of the year, the last of the fat lambs went to Dunbia at the beginning of December. As you may know, we don’t feed any concentrates, all our fat lambs are off
Lambing went well this year with very few problems. As usual about 90% lambed in the first cycle with one or two determined to drag it out to the last day. Our lambing percentage was a little down at about 1.75% (1.84% in 2014), which reflects the scanning numbers, which were also down. A number
So far this winter does not look too bad. Following on from a good grass growing autumn, the ewes are in excellent condition. To protect the spring grass, all ewes were housed mid January, fluked and scanned. I had been anticipating some fertility knock on from the wet weather we have had over the last