Tom Staunton: Handy tips to make sure you’re ready for lambing season
‘Keeping infection and disease levels as low as possible is important at lambing time’. Photo: Getty
The flock has been sorted into various different bunches after scanning last week. Many people are afraid of lower scanning with all the wet weather we had but we saw no difference, and there was nothing unusual to note.
I noticed that the stronger, better-conditioned ewes were those carrying multiples of either twins or triplets, and some of the empties were old ewes that were probably past it and in poorer condition.
