#LAMBMETRICS for the day
Drysdale & English Leicester Flocks
Born today: 2
Total Lambs Born: 2
Drysdale lambs (live total): 2
English Leicester lambs (live total): 0
English Leicester X lambs (live total): 0
Total Sets of Twins born: 1
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Total ewe lambs: 2
Total ram lambs: 0
Ewes lambed /70: 1 (1.4 %)
Lamb % : 200 % [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 0
Losses: 0 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
Castledale & Merino Flocks
Born today: 0
Total Lambs Born: 0
Merino lambs (live total): 0
Castledale lambs (live total): 0
Total Sets of Twins born: 0
Total Sets of Triplets born: 0
Total ewe lambs: 0
Total ram lambs: 0
Ewes lambed /62: 0 (0 %)
Lamb % : 0% [live]
Assisted/Dystocias: 0
Losses: 0 [lamb]; 0 [ewe]
NOTABLE MIDWIFERY TALES:
Welcome to Lambing 2021!
First “cab off the rank”, as usual, was a Drysdale ewe this afternoon who delivered a healthy set of purebred twin ewes.
Twins are often a little “early” although I tend to find that the first to lamb are not the textbook “5 month gestation” but are actually “5 months less a week”. Good thing they made it into the Maternity Paddocks yesterday!
Regular blog readers will have spotted a change this year in the info/layout. Yep, trying something new this year!
Slightly nervous…. Normally I don’t “count” the Merino and Castledale flocks in this LambMetrics silliness but the pregnancy numbers were lower this year and I’ve had a few paddock challenges this year so am trialing this idea of lambing down the not-as-tame breeds alongside the quiet English Leicesters and Drysdales. One aim is to try and reduce some of the losses which I’ve never been able to quite pinpoint the cause of. All a bit of an experiment…. May not work. haha
The system this year is that the ewes scanned with twins are in the Day Paddock/ Night Paddock arrangement – drifted back and forth between the 2 paddocks daily. The ewes scanned with single lambs are in a larger paddock so won’t need moving. (Hopefully)
However. Today was all about this lovely Drysdale ewe who lambed late in the afternoon. She now has 2 pretty ewe lambs and they are tucked up in the shed to make sure the lambs are both sucking well before they go to the Mothers Paddock.
