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Rough/ Winter grazing

  • 09-09-2015 10:16pm
    #1
    solomien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭


    Hey looking for some advice. I have 58 acres of ground that I am currently tidying up, it has been neglected for 10 or more years and until I topped it a month ago completely under rushes etc. It is now starting to green up now and I was thinking of stocking it with sheep until next spring to clean it off.
    I have no real experience with sheep and was wondering what my options are?

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    Siamsa Sessions
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭Siamsa Sessions


    Fencing between you and the neighbours would be the first thing to consider - sheep are free-thinkers when it comes to ditches and borders!

    If you're thinking of store lambs, the time is almost gone for buying them and they're very dear this year too.

    They will clear off a place and are better on soft ground than cattle, but getting them and keeping them isn't the most straightforward of jobs (we treated the first maggots/blowfly of the year today, to give some idea of what else can crop up)

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  • #3
    roosky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭roosky


    An option I would see for you is to but light ewe lambs for €90 approx and run them over the winter let them grow out and sell them as hoggets fro breeding next year.


  • #4
    Willfarman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭Willfarman


    Rent I to local sheep farmer for winter grazing?


  • #5
    solomien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭solomien


    Thanks for the replys.
    The ditches around the paddocks are heavy whitethorn which is completely stock proof with electric wire inside this.
    Like the idea of having a local sheep farmer stock it, how would this work could I just give them grazing rights on a b&b basis or would I have to rent the land not inclined to rent as I'm leasing the land myself?


  • #6
    IH784man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    Why are you renting 58 acres of bog if you have no use for it?


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  • #7
    roosky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭roosky


    where are you based


  • #8
    solomien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭solomien


    It's not bog, good land for the most part just years of neglect leasing it on the basis that it first few years are free till its in working order, have topped the entire of it and sprayed the regrowth with mcpa plan to reseed it next spring. Once drains etc are reopened it will be perfect not overly wet as it is.

    It's in West Tipperary


  • #9
    IH784man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭IH784man


    Are you renting it though


  • #10
    solomien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭solomien


    Yes lease agreement in place just no payments at the moment


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