What did you do today?

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

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.

High tensile is the only wire for sheep, we use tornado here

Green farmer

sea12 wrote: »

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

In hindsight might have been a good idea, but it's only about 180 metre run so could be worse.

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

High tensile is the only wire for sheep, we use tornado here

Told me in the shop it's high tensile, id better check it before I open the role

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

In hindsight might have been a good idea, but it's only about 180 metre run so could be worse.

Can you hire them, around here htey have proved too hard to get insurance on them...don't think you can hire them here, someone local will probably correct me now

rangler1

Green farmer wrote: »

Told me in the shop it's high tensile, id better check it before I open the role

it looks to be anyway,

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

it looks to be anyway,

I looked at the website and I think what looks like the W or H on the label is actually HT for high tensile. I hope !!!

sea12

rangler1 wrote: »

Can you hire them, around here htey have proved too hard to get insurance on them...don't think you can hire them here, someone local will probably correct me now

Here in Laois both Kws and Laois hire do them.

Username John

sea12 wrote: »

Here in Laois both Kws and Laois hire do them.

Neighbour here does a bit of fencing, and he charges 35/hour for the post driver... usually he comes with his young lad as well, so have the stakes laid out for him and they work away... great job

Nekarsulm

rangler1 wrote: »

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 ons 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

Not much progress yet. High hopes for the coming week, if this rain quits....

J.O. Farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

High tensile is the only wire for sheep, we use tornado here

The high tensile wire is only dear the first day. I wouldn't consider putting up anything else. The high tensile lasts years longer than the ordinary wire with a better fence.

Farmer_3650

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

The high tensile wire is only dear the first day. I wouldn't consider putting up anything else. The high tensile lasts years longer than the ordinary wire with a better fence.

+ 1. Works out cheaper in the long run.

Username John

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Not much progress yet. High hopes for the coming week, if this rain quits....

Would the one ram not be under fierce pressure when pulling silage off the out face? Or maybe not, when it's a shear grab?
My only experience of a grab was a neighbours tine one, about 25years ago, and you'd be pulling and tearing to get the silage out...

Nekarsulm

There's two, its just hidden with the angle of the photo. It doesn't cut cleanly anyway, leaving about 3 inches at the bottom that's pulled up, if you know what I mean.

rangler1

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Not much progress yet. High hopes for the coming week, if this rain quits....

A neighbour, has one of those round ones under side of the race,he has a sheet of steel for a false floor that drops down and they slide out under the left hand side of the race into the bath, seems to work very well.......they don't be crazy about going into the race for a while after.
I put mine away from the handling unit and they won't go within 5 yds of it, it'd strangle you to dip in mine

Green farmer

rangler1 wrote: »

it looks to be anyway,

Rang the shop again. Definitely Is high tensile, told me there's a good spring in it. so I can wok away in comfort now. Better safe then sorry.

ganmo

Hung a gate and cobalted the lambs yday

kk.man

Never do a tap on a Sunday only the bare essentials or an emergency.

rangler1

Judging sheep section in Moate show today.....a new career for retirement....maybe

charolais0153

rangler1 wrote: »

Judging sheep section in Moate show today.....a new career for retirement....maybe

Hope your better than a lad at a show ans sale in the mart the last day. A big pedigree texel breeder. 5 of the 6 pens he picked were texel cross . And the winner of the hoggets waa a man who he would be fairly well aquainted with.:rolleyes:

buffalobilly

kk.man wrote: »

Never do a tap on a Sunday only the bare essentials or an emergency.

same here a bit of forward planning and there should be
only essentials to do

rangler1

charolais0153 wrote: »

Hope your better than a lad at a show ans sale in the mart the last day. A big pedigree texel breeder. 5 of the 6 pens he picked were texel cross . And the winner of the hoggets waa a man who he would be fairly well aquainted with.:rolleyes:

Have to admit to favouring texels myself, most show themselves very well.
However the other judge did the mixed classes, I only judged pedigrees yesterday, I judged the young handler....great crack in the interviews

Siamsa Sessions

charolais0153 wrote: »

Hope your better than a lad at a show ans sale in the mart the last day. A big pedigree texel breeder. 5 of the 6 pens he picked were texel cross . And the winner of the hoggets waa a man who he would be fairly well aquainted with.:rolleyes:

Is this the norm in judging sheep? Or would it be the exception?

I suppose I'm wondering how "political" is it in general?

rangler1

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Is this the norm in judging sheep? Or would it be the exception?

I suppose I'm wondering how "political" is it in general?

I wouldn't think so, most would be like myself, out for the crack. You'd do your best but it's only one persons opinion, every one would see something different in the same sheep,
I got criticised for not judging for breed chacteristics...didn't know that pedigree Beltex weren't supposed to have their tails cut.

Sheep breeder

Last year at one show up the country a judge awarded first prize to a rouge lamb in a charollais class, as on the day no rouge classes at the show and was told he could enter the charollais class and the judge didn't know what a charollais looks like and this is one of the reasons the local shows are loosing people to go showing.each breed deserve to have a judge from their own breed.

J.O. Farmer

Sheep breeder wrote: »

Last year at one show up the country a judge awarded first prize to a rouge lamb in a charollais class, as on the day no rouge classes at the show and was told he could enter the charollais class and the judge didn't know what a charollais looks like and this is one of the reasons the local shows are loosing people to go showing.each breed deserve to have a judge from their own breed.

I'd say whoever was showing the rouge was delighted with themselves.

It'd be nearly impossible for every breed at a local show.
At the end of the day anybody can judge the sheep and have their opinion on the best sheep whether you agree with them or not and in general people looking on will judge them and say that they agreed or otherwise with the judge. It's just when it comes to giving out prizes it's the judges opinion that counts.

I bet whoever was criticising Rangler for not knowing that the beltex shouldn't have it's tail cut wasn't after getting the 1st place rosette.

ganmo

The societies could send out a scoring card to each show with each trait to look out for. Wouldn't be that hard to do

tomwaterford

Tagged lambs

DJ98

tomwaterford wrote: »

Tagged lambs

Do people find problems with some sheep after being tagged this year with flies attacking the ears and making them bleed during to scratching?

rangler1

DJ98 wrote: »

Do people find problems with some sheep after being tagged this year with flies attacking the ears and making them bleed during to scratching?

Bad time of the year to tag sheep, no real answer to it , would always give customers for ewe lambs the option to take the tags and do it themselves later in the year. Some farmers tagging ewe lambs obviously don't hold the head and let the lambs give the ear a slight rip pulling away and that makes a right mess also not tagging them near enough to the head where they won't catch in anything.
Never get much trouble with tags here and hopefully the lambs I hope the lambs I sell are alright too.
Stockholm Tar would be a help to keep the flies away

DJ98

rangler1 wrote: »

Bad time of the year to tag sheep, no real answer to it , would always give customers for ewe lambs the option to take the tags and do it themselves later in the year. Some farmers tagging ewe lambs obviously don't hold the head and let the lambs give the ear a slight rip pulling away and that makes a right mess also not tagging them near enough to the head where they won't catch in anything.
Never get much trouble with tags here and hopefully the lambs I hope the lambs I sell are alright too.
Stockholm Tar would be a help to keep the flies away

I haven't tagged the ewe lambs yet but had that problem with a ewe I had to replace tags in, same hole so don't know the cause, had another one tear the tag out of her ear and the flies drove the two of them wrong, Stockholm tar did a good job on them alright