wrangler wrote: » This is what we use from quickttag, you can get a tagger for €7, you should get numbers and reconcile them to their mother....when you find a runt you can identify the mother. Put a different colour for every yearhttp://www.tagfaster.com/management-tags-69-c.asp We have an automatic gun, very handy.it holds and loads about a dozen tags automatic Only lost one tag from birth to sale on nearly 800 lambshttp://www.tagfaster.com/tagfaster-automatic-sheep-tag-applicator-4-p.asp
Sheep breeder wrote: » Wrangler how did you find the retention rate and how long do they stay in for and can you get what you want printed on the tag
wrangler wrote: » Most ewes would have them all their lives, we use them in the fattening lambs as well, slaughter tag goes into them and coloured tags in ewe lambs eligible for replacements...less than 1%loss in the first year
arctictree wrote: » Do you write the ewes number on them?
Siamsa Sessions wrote: If anything they've settled too well and are flying thru the hay we're giving them, at a rate of around 1 square bale per day for every 6 ewes.
Inchilad wrote: » Seems alot alright.ive 11 pedigrees housed and theyll get through just over a bale.theyve a chrystallix bucket too but thats it.might be smallish bales too tho.can be a big difference in bales size/weights.
early_riser wrote: » Few irish company's doing management tags as well. Get mine here https://www.sheeptags.ie/ ,find them good very few get lost
Hard Knocks wrote: » Do you get blank or printed tags?
Green farmer wrote: » Lamb finisher, How many lads look at what's in the ingredients ? Started looking at different products lately and was surprised at how some products claim to be "rolls Royce " of lamb finishers, but don't contain any soya bean, while other products claim to be good, yet have the likes of palm kerrel and sunflower in their ingredients. What do people like to see in their finisher ?
razor8 wrote: » Maize no.1 & barley after soya hulls fine for finishing lambs too imo. There’s huge variations in what can be bought. Some stuff is a waste of time & same with pre lambing meal
tomwaterford wrote: » Afaik sunflower is counteract acidosis...if they eat too much
Green farmer wrote: » Ya, most if not all manufacturers don't put the details up on their website of top 5-6 ingredients. It's only when you buy a bag and look at the label, you discover what's in em. found it hard enough to get a product with decent ingredients, but ain't overpriced. A lot of bagged lamb finisher out there are around €300 a tonne, even though teagasc says it becomes uneconomical to buy it once it goes north of €280. Your spot in that some products have absolute rubbish in them.
wrangler wrote: » They think that everyone should be in a position to buy in bulk and transport it yourself which is worth about 50/ton
Green farmer wrote: » A Rep told me before I should install a bin and have it blown in. Save myself 20 a tonne. I though cost of bin a few grand. Even a second hand at just say €1,500 you'd have to buy 75 tonne to break even. I'd prefer to spend the €1,500 on grassland improvement, have lambs gone earlier and not need the meal in the first place.
ganmo wrote: » That's a new one on me. A quick google didn't turn up much, where ya hear it?
White Clover wrote: » What are you feeding them at present? I'm feeding in lamb (I hope!) Ewe lambs 200g roches finisher and 300g of an 18%p of the 3 way mix I mentioned above
Green farmer wrote: » Don't have the setup here for mixing, but currently feeding a ration made from barley,maize gluten, soya bean hulls, distrillers dried grains, maize , soya bean meal, molasses. Have used roches before, but their lamb finishers are €296 and something like €330 a tonne, which are both above the price that teagasc says mealing lambs doesn't make sense.
wrangler wrote: » I think you found out that not mealing them is worse last year. I paid €272 collected in bags for similar to yours..
Green farmer wrote: » Was the fluke that caused me bother last year. Lambs never fully recovered from it. A symptom of the flooding the winter before. This year have most of my lambs gone. I'm down to the last of the ewe lambs now, that weren't good enough to breed off, and their being heavily mealed. Paying similar price to yourself for the bagged stuff. I just won't go over the €280 mark.
wrangler wrote: » Apparently it's costing 20/ton to bag it and 20 to deliver, was complaining about the delivery charge one day and was told that they'd take their lorry off the road if I delivered for them at 20/ton
Green farmer wrote: » razor8 wrote: » Maize no.1 & barley after soya hulls fine for finishing lambs too imo. There’s huge variations in what can be bought. Some stuff is a waste of time & same with pre lambing meal Ya, most if not all manufacturers don't put the details up on their website of top 5-6 ingredients. It's only when you buy a bag and look at the label, you discover what's in em. found it hard enough to get a product with decent ingredients, but ain't overpriced. A lot of bagged lamb finisher out there are around €300 a tonne, even though teagasc says it becomes uneconomical to buy it once it goes north of €280. Your spot in that some products have absolute rubbish in them.
