Ram Fertility and Vasectomies 

Ram Fertility Assessments

Having a fertile ram is key for commercial and pedigree flocks, whether you’re carrying out Advanced Breeding procedures or not.

At South Wales Farm Vets we can carry out full ram fertility assessments, including semen analysis. This can give confidence in stock you have bought or are selling, help investigate poor scanning rates and ensure you are using fertile rams to condense lambing windows and avoid disappointment come AI time.

For ease we tend to carry out these exams at our centre but we can do them on farm. We tend to use an EEJ but if required can jump rams over a synchronised ewe.

Vasectomies

Having a teaser tup will help compact the lambing period and they are used in most advanced breeding programmes to detect oestrus. 

An ideal teaser is well grown (fit not fat) and has reached puberty. We frequently turn rams which fail fertility assessments into teaser tups. Ideally we do not want to be performing vasectomies any closer than 6 weeks before their intended use, so planning is key.