This year marks our 3rd annual ram sale day. There will be over 300 rams for sale and each ram comes with a set up genomic breeding values, enabling you to choose the best ram for you.
Please email Locksfarm@googlemail.com to secure your place and then we will be sending out all of the data/info of all of the rams beforehand.
It’s been a tough Spring for everyone and the Wettest and coldest it’s been in March/April for some time. The weather and lack of Spring growth has really tested the sheep. But as always, the sheep have surprised us and come out of it very well, with ewes picking out the driest areas they can and with lambs having good vigour to get up and drink even when being born into standing water sometimes. We have spoken to clients up and down the country and it’s been a gritty one for many, but with the ewe lambs almost finished now the weather looks to be improving so lambs can finally get some sunshine on their backs!
2 weeks before lambing
Moving ewes to saturated lambing paddocks
Recording new born lambs
Whilst 4 is not ideal, this girl did well to push them all out on her own in the rain!
Ewe lamb with her lambs
Almost 6,000 ewes were put to the ram this year with the following results:
4,244 Mixed aged ewes averaged 180%
1,587 Ewe lambs averaged 91%
The ewe lambs slightly struggled with second quality forage and could have been pushed harder but overall there was a good twinning rate and very few empty, so with over 9,000 lambs forecast it’s going to be a busy Spring.
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