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Profit from sheep

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  • #32
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Have you not done your own figures,

    /QUOTE]

    :pac: I'm still in the "establishing" phase, so my figures wouldn't be setting the world alight. Going pouring concrete in the lambing shed over the next few weeks here, so the sales figures don't be long getting eaten up by one off capital items. id go along with the twin lamb is your profit alright.


  • #33
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    At stocking at 10 ewes to the ha, you would have to put out alot more fertilizer and have good grass management. Dies anyone find with richer grass from fertilizer that Sheep scour a lot more? This goes for cattle too.

    Sheep scutter there brains out here on nitrogen rich grass.


  • #34
    roosky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭roosky


    Willfarman wrote:
    Sheep scutter there brains out here on nitrogen rich grass.


    I am at 10 ewes per had put out 2 rounds of urea in spring (1/2 bag per acre) then prob 3 rounds of can over summer at same rate and then i go with a bad of 18.6.12 at end of year which is a lot of fert but i wouldnt see scour as an issue here. If the sheep get highly digestible grass they will be soft in the dung but thats what they need to get the meat on their backs in my opinion


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