Lots of Soon to Be Mums! | Pregnancy Scanning Ewes 2022 | Australian Sheep Farming
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- With Lambing slowly creeping towards us its time to pregnancy test all of our ewes so that we can start looking after the ones that are going to have twins, as they will need a higher nutrition content diet than the single lambers.
Big thanks to Jason from Hoadley Scanning who came and scanned the ewes and walked us through, on camera, how he reads the ultrasound machine to see if the ewe is pregnant or not.
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Another good vid mate...interpreting those ultrasounds is black magic I reckon - I've never been able to figure them out, even those of human babies, including my three boys!
Thanks Ross! Yes It certainly takes practice and they are a credit to what they do.
How come you have no triplets ?
Hi Shane, There will be a few triplets in with the twin ewes. We probably prefer not to have triplets however, as it puts a fair bit of strain on the ewes and also generally have smaller weaker lambs, which in our climate can be challenging. Breed also has a bit to do with the fact that we don’t have many triplets as other British and NZ breeds have higher chance of more lambs.
Scanning is a relatively new thing for us so perhaps in the future we will look to identify the triplets.
If the dry lambs don’t take with their 2nd run with the ram, is freezer camp their destination?
That just depends, they will probably go to the saleyards unless they are a young sheep. If they are a young sheep they are kept and given another chance next year, as they are still growing and we’re not expecting them to get in lamb, but after that they go to the yards and it just depends on who buys them I guess. They might just go to another farm.
how's it going mate, I am a young farmer interested in giving preg scanning our ewes a go but my father (boss) is unsure of the accuracy and cost effectiveness of doing so, could you give me a bit of insight into the accuracy on your farm. i.e has your singles given birth to twins or your twins given birth to triplets and so fourth or has the scanning process been accurate? also the cost side of it is it in your opinion worth scanning?
Hi Boyd, it has worked really well in our operation and to our knowledge is more than accurate enough to make it justifiable. There has been no real stand out times that we have seen twins in with singles and vice versa, the biggest advantage being you can look after the twins a lot more than the rest. And the drys if they are more than one year without a lamb, may look at selling them. As for cost, for us it was 90c per sheep this year. Yes we do think it is worth prey scanning ewes.
@@ourfarmlifeaus thanks so much for the insight, has only furthered my interest into preg scanning our ewes! P.a thought the scan was far more expensive per sheep good to hear that it is justifiable
How many working dog to you have I like your videos