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Southwest MN | Its all very dependant on what your after. 250% sounds great if you are used to that much work. Triplets are more work but if you have good ewes makes life easier most commercial producers pull anything over twins and raise as a bottle lambs. Once you get them started on a good bucket system. Bottle lambs in my mind are easy if managed correctly. Also within the breed there is a significant difference in management and in drop rate. I know several purebred breeders dropping a 1.9 all the way up to a 2.8. We normally drop a 2.75 on our matures and 1.8-2.3 on our ewe lambs. But that takes a lot of feed at flushing. Energy needs to be at 200% of maintenance or about 3# of corn for a good flush. Several studies reinforcing that #. Mature ewes seem to stay between 200% with out pg600. 240-280% with pg600 in the fall. We give our ewes that give us triplets or more 2x in a row in our accelerated system give them a full year between lambings rather than every 8 months. | |
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Polypay lamb percent
