Username John wrote: » I fed straw and ration the last 2 years I was lambing... cos twas handier more than anything... My facilities would not be as nice for either man nor beast as ranglers I used to throw in a round bale of straw into the pen with the ewes and they would eat what they wanted, twould take care of feed and bedding for a few days... bales would want to be bales right tho, if not they'd fall apart too quick and you'd go through the straw too quick... Cos I was at work, I could only feed em twice a day. 0.5kg morn and eve. First year I used to feed them outside where they were penned, so I could put out the ration and then added extra soya bean on top to up the protein % Last year, I fed em in the pen, so twas just ration, no soya... Lambing went very well, but the ewes were thinner than I'd like after lambing. But I didn't want to go over 0.5kg in one feed... But, twas only for very small numbers...
rangler1 wrote: » Might be worth your while to feed the twins 1kg/day for the last six weeks if you thought they were thin at lambing, in effect they'd be getting the same amount as I use in the last 6 weeks, just not peaking at 1.25kg at lambing.
Sami23 wrote: » It is approx 6 weeks from lambing ye would recommend vaccinating with Heptavac or Covexin 10. Thanks Usually do that but no harm asking what others do
Username John wrote: » Nothing lambing here this year Rangler... so no feeding worries... Couldn't justify the time spent lambing, at least not in the short term... Miss it a bit (which is maybe a strange thing to say) But hopefully we might lamb a few again in a few years...
rangler1 wrote: » It's an ideal system for the likes of myself that likes an easy life, also suits someone that hasn't many ewes as using silage for a small amount of ewes isn't easy....nor is buying hay good enough for sheep, Also very clean near a dwelling,
rangler1 wrote: » Don't know but i used to feed 10 pedigree vendeens in 16ft and they were big sheep, probably not as wide as suffolk though. If you look at the ewes in the tunnel at the far end, you'll see they're eating out of walkthrough troughs at right angles to the feeding passage, they're 12 ft long and i can throw the meal from the feeding passage....can you put some in to your setuphttps://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/704803/404610.JPG
Jonny303 wrote: » You wouldn't recommend hay for sheep? Or you wouldn't recommend bought in hay?
AntrimGlens wrote: » Hi Username John, did you buy in ewe lambs to replace the ewes and run over as dry hoggs? Same as yourself I sold the ewes out in the back end also, kept two of the pedigrees and bought in a few hundred mule ewe lambs to run and sell as hoggs. Brought them off the hill on Saturday past and they've stretched out since they got their second fluke dose. Opened the first bales of silage for them on tuesday and was strange not to be worrying about scanning rates and targeting silage to litter size. I do miss the real interest in that side of things and trying to up my game, but the upside was that i got to spend the whole of Christmas with the family worry free and have nearly got the whole place fenced as i want it, instead of running round like a blue arsed fly, as the day job has been manic and will be for another couple of years. If work calms down in a few years and i get my sheep house up, i'll probably get back into lambing as i'll always have the hoggs to put a ram too, but we'll say how Brexit plays out first.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » I think he was saying it's difficult to get hay good enough for lambing ewes, a lot is left go too strong to be good enough for ewes
Jonny303 wrote: » I'm someone who really needs to improve my knowledge of all things nutrient. Would straw be better than hay? Or is rangler getting all his nutrients through the meal and only roughage through the straw? I have, what I class as good hay. But im purely going off smell and the ewes reaction to it being put out. They are getting their fair share of meal as well
rangler1 wrote: » Sami23 wrote: » It is approx 6 weeks from lambing ye would recommend vaccinating with Heptavac or Covexin 10. Thanks Usually do that but no harm asking what others do heptavac p+ probably the best as it covers the common diseases as well as pasturella pnuemonia, We've had a few cases of a clostridial disease called sardellii which heptavac doesn't cover,so we've had to change to covexin 10 but also had to use Ovipast to cover for Pnuemonia as well which is a pain
Jonny303 wrote: » Shed 1 is what we have Shed 2 is what I am thinking of changing too next week What would you think?
Sheep breeder wrote: » We had first lamb today and are due on Saturday when they were sponged,we are feeding a 20 per cent ration with soya as main protein source and baled haylage/silage to the ewes of good barley straw bed, the ewes are eating straw a lot this year, we had to give up on wheaten straw as the ewes would go mad for it. When ewes lamb they go fodder beet and meal for a month and then out.
Jonny303 wrote: » Was thinking the lambing pens down the side then running wavin pipes on the purlins and cutting gaps as water troughs. Spent the whole week at Christmas carting water around....
Dylan collins wrote: » i farm good land and a good bit of bog land how many sheep/cattle would i need to make a living full time just wondering
Dylan collins wrote: » i gave my lambs cobalt b12 at the weekend would they need any more minerals or not
Dylan collins wrote: » any man know what that sheep netting is like
390kid wrote: » Found it good enough need lots a power in the fence. Pain in the arse wen it's tangled
