What did you do today?

davidk1394

Just finished weighing the oldest lambs. 27 heading for the factory and 4 into the butcher. Putting click on the lightest lambs and clickzin on the bigger fellas

White Clover

davidk1394 wrote: »

Just finished weighing the oldest lambs. 27 heading for the factory and 4 into the butcher. Putting click on the lightest lambs and clickzin on the bigger fellas

Good going there David. When were they born? Mostly singles?

rangler1

davidk1394 wrote: »

Just finished weighing the oldest lambs. 27 heading for the factory and 4 into the butcher. Putting click on the lightest lambs and clickzin on the bigger fellas

Philip creighton in athenry and ourselves are only averaging 280gms/day on grass only, we'll have to get a farm walk on your place to see how it's done.

razor8

rangler1 wrote: »

Philip creighton in athenry and ourselves are only averaging 280gms/day on grass only, we'll have to get a farm walk on your place to see how it's done.

Have you a link to the monthly report. Can never find it when I look. Need to bookmark it

Weighed all my own lambs Saturday and their averaging nearly exactly 300 not counting ewe lambs with twins

razor8

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Baled one field a week ago that was grazed 18 days prior. Had a cover of 3200 on it wilted for 24 hours and took 6 bales/ac of it. Was a reseed last year though. Only got half a bag of 20-10-10.

Was it baled with a McHale? That's a serious yield in the time

davidk1394

March born and a mixture of twins and singles. Creep fed for the last 2 weeks. Mainly easy care lambs that are fit. It'll be interesting to see how they go. Just in now from stacking bales. Mowed out 7ac of a paddock gone to strong for grazing. Highly clover sward so expecting good silage.

AntrimGlens

razor8 wrote: »

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Baled one field a week ago that was grazed 18 days prior. Had a cover of 3200 on it wilted for 24 hours and took 6 bales/ac of it. Was a reseed last year though. Only got half a bag of 20-10-10.

Was it baled with a McHale? That's a serious yield in the time

Fusion. Yeah I had a KT meeting on the farm that week and I couldn't believe it until we measured it.

rangler1

razor8 wrote: »

Have you a link to the monthly report. Can never find it when I look. Need to bookmark it

Weighed all my own lambs Saturday and their averaging nearly exactly 300 not counting ewe lambs with twins

I get the teagasc newsletter, but i was talking to Philip on thursday and asked him, he always says it as it is. Just after seeing in the sheep pictures that david was feeding meals to the oldest....makes a difference, a neighbour has most of his creep fed march lambs gone too..
300gms/day is good growth, you must be reseeding a bit

charolais0153

davidk1394 wrote: »

March born and a mixture of twins and singles. Creep fed for the last 2 weeks. Mainly easy care lambs that are fit. It'll be interesting to see how they go. Just in now from stacking bales. Mowed out 7ac of a paddock gone to strong for grazing. Highly clover sward so expecting good silage.

How much creep were you giving p'er head

razor8

rangler1 wrote: »

I get the teagasc newsletter, but i was talking to Philip on thursday and asked him, he always says it as it is. Just after seeing in the sheep pictures that david was feeding meals to the oldest....makes a difference, a neighbour has most of his creep fed march lambs gone too..
300gms/day is good growth, you must be reseeding a bit

found it

davidk1394

charolais0153 wrote: »

How much creep were you giving p'er head

Ad lib. Have 3 jfc creep feeders in with them. Eating about 30kgs of meal a day

charolais0153

davidk1394 wrote: »

Ad lib. Have 3 jfc creep feeders in with them. Eating about 30kgs of meal a day

I see. We always go with 250-30O grams pr day

rangler1

charolais0153 wrote: »

I see. We always go with 250-30O grams pr day

do you feed them in troughs

charolais0153

rangler1 wrote: »

do you feed them in troughs

Creep feeder for the ones that don't creep graze and trough for the ones that come out

davidk1394

Rang the butcher about the lambs. He was well impressed with their conformation. Well fleshed with a good fat cover.

charolais0153

davidk1394 wrote: »

. Well fleshed with a good fat cover.

Is that not the same thing:)

White Clover

davidk1394 wrote: »

Rang the butcher about the lambs. He was well impressed with their conformation. Well fleshed with a good fat cover.

What weight were they and how did they kill out?

rangler1

It paid well to creep feed lambs this year, but one year with another you'd be on a loser to feed lambs for sale end of june and the runts in the bunch will really screw ya.....bad enough on grass only

Hard Knocks

rangler1 wrote: »

It paid well to creep feed lambs this year, but one year with another you'd be on a loser to feed lambs for sale end of june and the runts in the bunch will really screw ya.....bad enough on grass only

Trend this year & last is to delay early lambing to Feb/ March & aim for Mid-end of June, add creep if need be

davidk1394

Finished putting click on all the lambs yesterday. Busy with fertilizer and topping today. Going grazing a newly reseeded grass field tomorrow. It was set around mid may.

Nekarsulm

Made a start on installing a dipping tank. It's one I got from a chap who is changing his yard and it hasn't been used in years. Made of fibreglass and is round shaped, got it out almost fully intact.

davidk1394

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Made a start on installing a dipping tank. It's one I got from a chap who is changing his yard and it hasn't been used in years. Made of fibreglass and is round shaped, got it out almost fully intact.

Stick up a picture when its finished. It'd be interesting to see

serfspup

the one i was after
last sheep.jpg

Green farmer

I'm getting old. Spent yesterday putting up these lads . Wrecked this morning.

rangler1

davidk1394 wrote: »

Stick up a picture when its finished. It'd be interesting to see

Any round tanks I've seen are big and need a lot of water/dip to fill them before you start, our rectangular tank only need 250gals, the round one could be at least twice the size and you still have to top up after 40 ewes.
Round ones are a great job if you've plenty of sheep,but it's advised to clean out and refill every 500 sheep, as well as topping up after every 40

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

I'm getting old. Spent yesterday putting up these lads . Wrecked this morning.

I'm not surprised and ground is hard too

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

I'm not surprised and ground is hard too

We had torrential rain here on Thursday, so I thought it might of softened it up for me, but didn't really do much to it. Need it subdivided for the weaned lambs so cannt wait until Autumn when it'd be a easier job.

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

We had torrential rain here on Thursday, so I thought it might of softened it up for me, but didn't really do much to it. Need it subdivided for the weaned lambs so cannt wait until Autumn when it'd be a easier job.

Permanant sheep wire fence I suppose, weaned lambs can be very persistent....be interested to see how you get down the strainers

sea12

Green farmer wrote: »

We had torrential rain here on Thursday, so I thought it might of softened it up for me, but didn't really do much to it. Need it subdivided for the weaned lambs so cannt wait until Autumn when it'd be a easier job.

Would u not have got a post driver green. €70 for the day and you'd they have up in a couple of hours. Save yourself the hassle

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

Permanant sheep wire fence I suppose, weaned lambs can be very persistent....be interested to see how you get down the strainers

This is the new stuff I sourced.seems strong. Used to use the green medium gauge English wire, but it's pure rubbish. After a few years the sheep have poked loads of holes in it.

3 lambs have returned to their mothers. 2 small ones that'd go through anything and a big fat one who likes to hurdle fences or had a jelly spine to crawl under them.