Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Lambing is done

So this year we had three sets of twins and one singleton, all natural (no AI).
(Seven lambs from four ewes, four male and three female; two 75% and five 5/8- and yes all spoken for, sorry.)

Not too bad a ratio, right 175%?

This fall will be another round of AI, talking about flushing and embryo transfer from my 75% ewe (she had twin ewe lambs her first breeding), which would bump me up to a crop of 87.5% lambs instead of one set, with the other 50% ewes giving me more 75% lambs.  I'll keep you posted.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

1/2 done and all boys

Two of our four ewes had three lambs (one pair twins and one sigleton) and so far they were all boys. Hard to breed up on boys...well two more to go, so fingers are crossed.