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How do you dry off ewes?

  • 08-06-2013 10:38pm
    #1
    Arrow in the Knee
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    As above


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  • #2
    AntrimGlens
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    used to house them for 3 days and keep the water off them, but now i just put them in a bare field and would have no cases of quarters going hard or fellin. lambs would be spent at anything from 12-14 weeks. if i have just cut a field for silage i would put them in there


  • #3
    Username John
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    Arrow in the Knee wrote: »
    As above

    I put a dry cow tube in em and house em for 3 days, give em some straw.
    Bare fields are always a prob for me. I had two nice hog lose a quarter last year as i didnt take proper care ( just put em on a bare-ish field and checked em after a few days, but they had gotten lumps, which really annoyed me...)


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    Miseryguts
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    Give them big wooly jumpers.


  • #5
    sea12
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    I always put the ewes in a shed for about 5 days. Feed them hay and water. Then I put then in a bare field. Always seems to work ok for me.


  • #6
    Arrow in the Knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 957 ✭✭✭Arrow in the Knee


    Well I have to hand milk some of them they are that milky.
    In a bare paddock with hay and water.
    Then a half a tube of Cepravin Dry Cow in each spin if I think their nearly dry.


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  • #7
    rancher
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    Arrow in the Knee wrote: »
    Well I have to hand milk some of them they are that milky.
    In a bare paddock with hay and water.
    Then a half a tube of Cepravin Dry Cow in each spin if I think their nearly dry.
    I wouldn't have time for that with 500, so I just put them on a bare pasture and hope for the best, wean at 12-14 weeks and I don't seem to get any mastitis........wouldn't be surprised if the mastitis came from the straw bedding if they are put in. I think it's important for them to have water so....doctors differ. A couple of rolls of electrified sheep netting is very handy for making bare paddocks, if the little paddock isn't bare the day they go into it....it will be the next day.


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