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Irish Grassland Ass. Sheep Walk and Talk

Dickie10 · 2017-05-09 15:30:35

Is anyone heading to this. ? i wont get to it with work, but would love to sounds very interesting. why to christ cant they have these on a saturday morning? how many full time sheep farmers are there in the country??

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#32 13-05-2017 07:26PM

rangler1

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Farm365 wrote: »

Sounds like a great set-up.What kind of stocking rate does he have? Does he house the sheep for winter? I presume he's moving the ewes daily with paddocks that small? What breed of ewe does he keep?

600 ewes on 46ha, anymore and he'd need a nitrates derogation, he houses the sheep for the winter,
he has loads of different ewes, mixes of suffolk, belclare,texel, even charolais but they'd all have some belclare in them.
Moves them every three to four days this time of year

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