Showing Ewe Hoggets

kk.man

I've a few ewe hoggets I hope to show at upcoming breeding sales.
What would you recommend to show them off better? I don't want to go crazy nor do i have the time to pamper them.
I was thinking of spraying some sheep dip on their wool. I don't have a bath but they r clicked and very clean sheep otherwise. These are nice sheep and I want to get their full value given that others will have theirs in top notch. What i generally want is to show i put some effort into them without been extravagant????

IH784man

A nice pink or any colour apart from the usual red and blues etc colour spot on their heads to mark them I think sets them off a bit,as long as it is nicely done and not splattered over them

AntrimGlens

What breed are they?
When showing mule hoggs I'd always clip their bellies and necklines and faces are trimmed. I run them through the dipper with a brown bloom if showing them all within a week or so of being dipped, or if a few weeks apart I would spray them all with a knapsack but when you've a few hundred to do it does become a bit tedious.

Unfortunately because this is the norm when showing hoggs, if you don't have them bloomed, trimmed and skins showing tight wool you're sheep end up looking the exception rather than the norm and has got sweet F all to do with how well they'll rear and produce lambs.

Tis a mugs game really!!

A red or pink crayon on their crowns, rather than marker spray. Stay away from green or blue. Nothing like the colour blue to make a sheep look its worst and diminish their value.

kk.man

They r mostly Suffolk and a few Borris types. All lowland.

kk.man

Jeyes fluid or sheep dip to put in knapsack-pressure-sprayer????

sea12

Was getting my hoggets ready yesterday. Will try move them on in the next month. A few with sore feet and one poor devil with A bad dose of maggots. Unreal maggots weather. Was hoping to avoid having to click them. Definitely going to put in a dipping tank next year. As buying in store lambs you don't know what u buying and it clears then up nicely.

Anyway happy with the hoggets in general with the exception of the few mules I bought. Not sure about pink as a colour though. Enough of pink around here with my pink bales of haylage. Personally I think a nice red looks well on top if neck.

kk.man

sea12 wrote: »

Was getting my hoggets ready yesterday. Will try move them on in the next month. A few with sore feet and one poor devil with A bad dose of maggots. Unreal maggots weather. Was hoping to avoid having to click them. Definitely going to put in a dipping tank next year. As buying in store lambs you don't know what u buying and it clears then up nicely.

Anyway happy with the hoggets in general with the exception of the few mules I bought. Not sure about pink as a colour though. Enough of pink around here with my pink bales of haylage. Personally I think a nice red looks well on top if neck.

I clicked mine 2 weeks after shearing and there are no sign of maggots. The ones that have maggots won't do your sale price any good.
I have a few with feet problems also but they are getting better after the footbath and an injection.

I agree with you on the dip tank..my shearer always says dipping should be compulsory.

Farmer_3650

sea12 wrote: »

Was getting my hoggets ready yesterday. Will try move them on in the next month. A few with sore feet and one poor devil with A bad dose of maggots. Unreal maggots weather. Was hoping to avoid having to click them. Definitely going to put in a dipping tank next year. As buying in store lambs you don't know what u buying and it clears then up nicely.

Anyway happy with the hoggets in general with the exception of the few mules I bought. Not sure about pink as a colour though. Enough of pink around here with my pink bales of haylage. Personally I think a nice red looks well on top if neck.

We put in a dipping tub last year. I don't know why I didn't do it sooner to be honest. We built it with blocks, built a holding pen each side that would hold about 30 lambs each and built walls around the holding pens and dipping tub. Done the lot ourselves for around 1200. Well worth it imo.

jd06

Just wondering does anybody use Moore's dip for colouring ewes. Its hard on the knapsack
Any handier ways of doing it, probably the dip tub?