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Sentence Examples The shepherd traveled at the rear of his flock, depending on his dog to range ahead, prevent wrong turns, retrieve ewes inclined to straying. A mid season lambing flock of 240 ewes is also run with the cattle enterprise. I ran over 1,200 cows and over 2,000 fine wool merino ewes and 300 crossbred ewes. The heavily pregnant ewes were scattered in all directions, as the ferocious dogs ran riot in the field. Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice. He rears 100 bull beef calves, runs a flock of 300 ewes and produces 3,000 turkeys for the Christmas market. On Tuesday, March 26, we shall reopen the sheep market alone for the sale of spring lambs, hoggs and cull ewes by auction. Firstly, we shall be selling in the sheep shed with a full live auction of hoggs, ewes and spring lambs, if there are any about. Disturbing ewes or sudden changes in diet can cause embryo losses, the result is lower litter sizes and barren ewes. In the thick undergrowth of the Scottish hills the Beardie would control stubborn ewes by bouncing and barking in front of them. The farmer then gauges the progress by the number of ewes with coloured hindquarters, indicating which of his flock have been serviced. Wednesday October 2 will see the breeding sheep, with some 3,00 ewes and gimmer shearlings, starting at 10 am, followed by 280 rams at noon. They'll take all the cull ewes and rams we send them, and even pay a decent price. In October of 2003, members purchased cheviot rams at the breeding sales and crossed them onto the native blackface Ox Mountain ewes. Farmers are having to apply for licences in order to be allowed to bring tups to ewes and bulls to cows for breeding. A flock of 200 ewes, half of which are Suffolks and the rest Mules, are run with either a Texel or a Suffolk tup to produce fat lambs. For the Harpers, the sheep farming year begins in September when they put their tups to their ewes. A farmer buying some replacement breeding ewes or a new tup could not then move his store lambs or suckler calves. Owners of breeding ewes in this position may well have to consider tupping their remaining flock before offering them for sale. The point was often made that good conditioned cows and ewes were more susceptible to metabolic problems induced by stress. Show More Sentences Their enterprise consists of 500 breeding ewes and 40 suckler cows in association with 50 acres of sugar beet, the rest is in grain. He uses a Texel ram on the Suffolk ewes and a Suffolk ram on the Texel ewes. The entry of 1,700 ewes was similar overall to previous years but with more older sheep than hoggets. He dropped the ewe count back to 750 and grazed 200 hoggets. 750 ewes at that time was regarded as an economic unit. I rub my hair with oil pressed from hemp seed, oil from the crushed seed of flax, wool fat boiled from the shorn fleeces of ivory ewes. Merino ewes, grown for their wool, are crossed with a meat breed, such as a border Leicester ram, to produce so-called first-cross meat sheep. However, in the end we managed to sell nearly 800 gimmers and 250 ewes which helped a little. Even the family pet let loose in the countryside can cause great distress to sheep, including pregnant ewes and lambs. There are now about 600,000 Scottish Black Face ewes in the country after de-stocking. Some of the sheep, mostly ewes, were in shock and had to be carried via a human chain from the lorry. Small amounts of meal fed in time will rectify loss in condition, cramming it in later only leads to thinner ewes and larger lambs. Some viewers complained about the mustering of pregnant ewes and newborn lambs. It was following the weaning of the lambs from the ewes during the second week of August, when we also weaned Daisy's two lambs. Mountain ewes produce less lambs than their lowland counterparts and fetch a lower prices at the mart. With the ewe numbers hovering around 200, it looks as though we shall be selling the ewes back in the sheep market. They have about 1,000 ewes plus lambs between them and are anxiously watching them for signs of the disease. A farmer has threatened to shoot any dogs he sees on his land after four ewes with lambs were injured and one killed in a late-night attack. Although many ewes have already dropped their lambs, some producers have ewes lambing through to August. The couple had kept a flock of sheep in that particular field, 30 ewes and two rams to be exact. Hereabouts ewes wander at will followed by their weak-kneed, painfully innocent lambs, the majority just days old. Show More Sentences They brought with them 350 ewes, 45 wethers, ten bullocks, six heifers, one bull, four horses, and a number of goats and some poultry. Their flock now boasts 35 ewes and 2 rams and, as of March, the sheep have been deemed scrapie free by inspectors. Following the severe winter of 1995, for example, the Mt. Langley herd was left with 4 ewes and 11 rams. The flock consisted of 20 rams, 44 ewes, and 43 lambs, of which 21 were female and the remaining were castrated males. Young rams fertilize ewes using coursing tactics, whose success is independent of their dominance rank. In the late 1860s and 1870s half-bred sheep were produced with English and Border Leicester and Lincoln rams and Merino ewes. Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted. They took five of the ewes, and the others that hadn't lambed yet slipped their lambs from fright. Hikers and dogs can also cause stress to ewes, which are heavy in lamb at this time of the year. I am an ex-farmer, and was very surprised to see ewes heavy in lamb being mustered. Therefore all ewes could be safely in lamb by day 47 after the ram joins the flock. The ewes in lamb are being moved to safer paddocks beyond the museum, while the goats and the pony have been found temporary homes. The good farmer who fed his ewes well before lambing rarely complained of foxes. Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing. During the lunch hour, I was waiting for the lambers to get back, and I waited all alone in a big field of about 100 pregnant ewes, the last of the herd to come through. We responded to losses by jackal predation by changing to an indigenous breed, bringing heavily pregnant ewes in to a safe camp, and kraaling our animals at night. With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. Most of the land is under grass at the moment and carries a flock of 265 ewes and a small Aberdeen Angus herd, as well as commercial cattle for fattening. The western region of the Irish Texel Sheep Society will hold their annual sale of Texel rams and ewes in Ballinrobe Mart on Friday 6th September. How can Paul Stilgoe of the RSPCA think it is a reasonable to expect farmers to lamb all their ewes inside in order to protect them and the lambs? Show More Sentences Marauding dogs massacred ewes in lamb in Aramoho at the weekend. He sells heifers as yearlings, finishes the bullocks and also has 20 ewes. Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted. The net figure for destocking in County Mayo is a total of 24,432 ewes. The ewes are attentive to their own, and stand patiently while lambs feed. Infection is through the oral route when sucking from teats contaminated either by faeces in ewes harbouring the bacteria in their intestinal tract, or by infected soil. Social rank then determines access to estrous ewes during the rut. It's stopped my skin chapping when I used to go round lambing the ewes. Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs. A further 2,000 breeding ewes and hoggets were on offer on the day also. The order of sale will be slightly different in that first will come the gimmer shearlings followed by breeding ewes then store lambs and, finally, tups. The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes. A commercially successful breed, the North of England Mule, has been produced from the Swaledale ewes, by mating with Bluefaced Leicesters. In feral sheep, rams may fight during the rut to determine which individuals may mate with ewes. Mutation in bone morphogenetic protein receptor-IB is associated with increased ovulation rate in Booroola Merino ewes. One recent victim is East Sussex farmer Susan Harmer, who found 29 dead and wounded ewes after her Southdown flock was attacked by several dogs. A NEW flushing supplement has been launched by Rumenco formulated to boost the tupping performance of ewes at grass. If possible, put ewes in the lambing area a few days before lambing to reduce stress, especially first-time lambers. Winter grazing his 120 ewes, mostly Welsh mules, helps thje process by producing short tussocky swards. Six of the hybrid ram offspring were then bred to either Red Maasai or Dorper ewes to complete the backcross. Show More Sentences In addition to the farm's mainly Suffolk cross flock, there are also two rare breed Leicester longwool ewes expecting 3 lambs between them. Effect of progestagen and PMSG on oestrous synchronization and fertility in dorper ewes during the transition period. Why, We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. The ewes should now be moved as near home as convenience will permit, in order that they may be under the immediate observation of the lamber. Lambs learn the heft from ewes and if whole flocks are culled it must be retaught to the replacement animals. For example, Finnsheep ewe lambs may reach puberty as early as 3 to 4 months, and Merino ewes sometimes reach puberty at 18 to 20 months. Parasitised ewes will shed large numbers of eggs onto pasture where lambs will graze later in the season. All but the fell sheep were lambed inside the new shed where adaptable pennage can hold up to 900 ewes or 1,400 feeding lambs. In 1995, two ewes named Megan and Morag were the first mammals cloned from differentiated cells. Between 1930 and 1938 she won a number of prizes for Herdwick ewes at shows across Cumbria. Rough Fell sheep can be recognized for the broad white patch across their black faces, and both rams and ewes are horned. The ewes make excellent mothers and are known for being able to rear lambs well, even in adverse conditions. Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season. Severe under-nutrition due to heavy snow or shortage of grass or other feed is one reason for ewes to reabsorb foetuses. Heavy ewes to PS74 Upper Hindhope, hill types to PS56 Bombie. I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love. The Santon ewes are in lamb to service sires including Mr Fraser's 30,000gn Edinburgh 2004 purchase, Cairness Destiny, Muiresk 999, Cairness You'll Doo and Santon Extacy. For commercial buyers there were many pens of quality shearling ewes that could be bought for PS125-PS170, suitable for taking home and crossing for fat lamb production. Castrated or uncastrated males are acceptable, as are ewes or does. Then two years ago he started keeping suckler cows and the farm now accommodates 40 sucklers, 140 stores and 300 Suffolk and Texel cross ewes, which are put to Texel rams. Show More Sentences Ryelands have a smaller head than most terminal sires which makes them a good choice for maiden or Merino ewes but they have a fast growth rate and early maturity. Carl, who has been breeding Texels for 14 years, had slimmed down his Cosyn Texel flock to 30 ewes and is now waiting in vain for a batch from Lanarkshire. Examples from Classical Literature The ewes, not knowing their shorn lambs, did not make the customary signal. Well, it was just the lambing time, and Kirstin had to look after the ewes. Is it on corn-husks you have been feeding your ewes that they look so sickly? He said his father was shepherd to a big farmer, who had sent him with two score of shearling ewes to get highland pasture. Keep your twinned ewes on good feed and water, also by themselves, if you expect them to raise you two good lambs. Strange to say, the ewes did not seem to trouble themselves about the matter. It is a fair thing to do because the ewes with twins do not need two. That's as ill as the ewes in the yaird and nae dogs to hunt them. A number of ewes and lambs one day came close to my hiding-place. And whose these wheat-fields, these ewes, these gardens, and that palace? A FARMER and respected sheepdog handler has denied stealing 10 ewes from his cousin. His armour is laid upon the ground, and he stalks in front of the ranks as it were some great woolly ram ordering his ewes. He should then be castrated, and fattened with the old ewes. I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. The delivery of ewes and wethers is timed by individual arrangement. He runs 65 beef cattle plus 750 ewes and 300 ewe lambs on 528 acres, with 23 acres of green crop and 35 acres of arable. Our farmer members put through about 700 lambs a week in spring, as well as hoggets and cull ewes. Every one in that country, whether master or man, has plenty of cheese, meat, and good milk, for the ewes yield all the year round. Alick was of opinion that church, like other luxuries, was not to be indulged in often by a foreman who had the weather and the ewes on his mind. So saying, he dashed into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and began spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he were transfixing mortal enemies in earnest. Show More Sentences Tenant farmer Alun Thomas, of Ty'n Hendre, Talybont, near Bangor, who has around 1,000 ewes, accused the National Assembly of withholding the money to accrue interest. Meanwhile he drove all the ewes inside, as well as the she-goats that he was going to milk, leaving the males, both rams and he-goats, outside in the yards. Established by far-sighted Welsh Half-Bred producers, the 1955 sale threw a life-line to Welsh farmers whose draft Welsh ewes were losing lowland buyers to rival breeds. Find more words! 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