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Do you count your lambs?

  • 14-04-2014 10:05am
    #1
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,364 ✭✭✭


    OK, silly question maybe but do you lads count your lambs in the field? I check my stock twice a day and think I'll give up counting the lambs, very hard to get right and I'm always recounting.


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  • #2
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    I try to, but it can be impossible. Currently feeding so easy enough count them at least once a day. If I can I do rounds of the little fields and check along walls and in drains, but that doesn't tell me if the fox has nabbed one, which would be my main concern. Touch wood, not happened yet in 14.


  • #3
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    No.

    I'd love to say I have too many - but really the answer is a combination of lack of time and (mainly) laziness. :P

    I would hope that if a lamb went missing, the ewe would let you know (altho when they see you coming with feed, they can quickly forget about their lambs, so maybe not the most reliable at times)

    But as they are old enough going out (if there is anything suspicious I hold onto them inside for another few days) - it usually works out.


  • #4
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    arctictree wrote: »
    OK, silly question maybe but do you lads count your lambs in the field? I check my stock twice a day and think I'll give up counting the lambs, very hard to get right and I'm always recounting.

    No, never do, I'm lucky that I have a dog that goes around the ditches and hunts the lambs out of them, If she meets a sick/dead one she just sets them/lies down beside them and I know to go over......never count the ewes either


  • #5
    Cran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Cran


    rancher wrote: »
    No, never do, I'm lucky that I have a dog that goes around the ditches and hunts the lambs out of them, If she meets a sick/dead one she just sets them/lies down beside them and I know to go over......never count the ewes either

    same here, only ever count the lambs at weaning and the ewes at lambing (& census time) to keep track of them.


  • #6
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭razor8


    Cran wrote: »
    same here, only ever count the lambs at weaning and the ewes at lambing (& census time) to keep track of them.

    Count the ewes the odd time but wouldn't be possible to count the lambs when there in big batches. If a few ewes were missing I would notice straight away without counting, sixth sense or something I guess


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  • #7
    AnFeirmeoir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭AnFeirmeoir


    Count ewes . Love it when its hard to make out a ewe from a lamb from a distance. Great sign they're doing well


  • #8
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Count all here, but we've only a handful.
    1 less now - dog issue


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