My sheep were scanned on Tuesday, but I hadn’t sorted them or taken them home, so I did that today. I had left them out in our apportionment and it’s a quick walk back to the fank (dash it, I just remembered I forgot to close the apportionment gate!!)
The sheep were behaving today, and strolled straight in to where I wanted them.
I drenched them all for fluke and split my twins & triplets from singles. Not happy with the number of twins but what can you do!
I walked the singles home, before coming back out in the dark for the others with the trailer.
I hope to get some painting done now, over the next couple of days. I want to paint my chain harrows and also my small hen houses. I have three of them and think I’ll maybe sell one of them, I’d anyone is interested. This one is sitting in the barn now, having been cleaned, and will be painted soon.
If you want to try and produce more twins in the future keep ewe lambs that were born as a twin.
Apart from the last 2 years, I’m usually at 50-75% twins!
Alright. Could really be a number of factors, from maybe less fertile sheep, ie more singles as ewes, ram fertility or even your sheep cooks be in too good, or even poor condition going to the tup. Personally I think genetic recording is the way forward for crofters like you and I. Obviously electronic isnt viable but knowing what your ewe lambs come from is a good start.