We gathered up ram lambs out of tupping groups a few days over their 17-day first cycle. These ewes joined up with some of the older stock rams, that were raddled to mark changeover and hopefully highlight any lates. With lambing so late outside, we don’t raddle rams the first cycle – just really looking for clarification on sires at the change-over and a check that everybody has been working. With so much mud around during tupping it has been easy to see that the rams have been jumping anyway. There are very few coloured bums around so far, which is a relief.