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Grass supplies are in a tricky position and require a significant lift this week to increase the average farm cover which currently stands at about 500kg DM/ha.
The 2021 lambing season is drawing to a close on Tullamore Farm with just 11 ewes/yearling hoggets left to lamb as of Tuesday evening.
Lambing started around 12 March and, after a slow start, over 85% of the 143 mature ewes lambed down in the first three weeks of the lambing season.
A three-and-a-half-week breeding period in the yearling ewe hoggets has also resulted in a relatively tight lambing period with this batch of hoggets mated to begin lambing after the first breeding cycle in mature ewes.