arctictree wrote: » Going to spray the ewes this evening. I notice a good few with big cuts on them where they are scratching and surrounded by flies. Same with some of the weaned ewes with sores on their udders. Weather can't help either.
early_riser wrote: » Have a 2 year old polled dorset ram here not a breed i know much about and wasnt a planned purchase, bought as ram lamb to get me out of a hobble after a mature ch ram got hurt out with the ewes. Had him with 8 early ewes and they were very hardy and well covered were outside during all the snow and had impressive kill outs def matched charollais. Had main bunch of sheep in yesterday to weigh lambs and this lads lambs are probably thriving the best in this heat they are mud fat off grass. Anyone use them before and how did you find them and what are the ewe lambs like as replacements? Has mostly being charollais used here the last number of years but only 1 being kept here next year to use on the ewe lambs cause there was too many loses after them in the poor spring weather. One vendeen bought already and have 2 nice texel hoogets i bought last year as ram lambs will keep one and sell other. Would def consider another dorest aswell as seem a good all round sheep
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » I had a Polled Dorset here for a few years. Good lambs thrown by him but I felt he was lacking in the hind quarters. Hardy lambs though, as you said, and easily finished. Very good out of season breeders too.
DJ98 wrote: » Is there a big difference in the polled and horned other than the obvious.
Buford T. Justice V wrote: » DJ98 wrote: » Is there a big difference in the polled and horned other than the obvious. None as far as I know, just different strains of the breed.
Cran wrote: » Needs department to go electronic for that to happen, and official stance is no plans for that.
Nick100 wrote: » I was talking to the girl from Cormac Tags at Sheep18 and she was selling wands and small printer and said that if a farmer has these that he/she can scan the bunch of lamns with the wand and then print the taglist with the wireless printer and just clip the printout to the dispatch docket at the mart.
ganmo wrote: » Did the dept, the marts and factories say they'll accept them like that?
Cran wrote: » When eid comes in you wouldn’t need to fill in the numbers of the lambs in your dispatch docket. The factories and marts will scan you lambs and provide a printed list back to you.
arctictree wrote: » Theoretically, should you even need a dispatch docket? Could the IT systems not handle all this automatically?
Cran wrote: » Asked that and answer is no plan to update dept system, we re the only ones that eid will cost anything.
Western Pomise wrote: » So will a Mart worker stand in pen of 20 lambs and wave the wand around to read them?.....what happens if a few lambs have heads down?....and don’t get read?
Lambman wrote: » What's the latest anybody has lambed sheep? If u didn't lamb till may/June the ewes would need very little feeding all winter and there would be good grass for them coming till lambing again saving feeding... The lambs would be weaned for the grass after the silage and run them all winter till the following janruary when there's big money for them??? Years like this make u think about it... Pros and cons??
Green farmer wrote: » Anyone sending their wool up to ulster, the wool board seems to be paying that bit better ?
Lambman wrote: » I read into it all your wool is graded by master graders into 100 different grades then baled and sent till England till for auction... on average there paying 60p per kg.... would cost a lot till haul wool as its bulky so would it really be worth it... and sheepfarmer last year's wool would grade bad as they want fresh oily wool so till me the local merchant lifting it off the street is still best option.
AntrimGlens wrote: » Does the wool board even accept wool from non NI farmers? I got 55p/kg from Texacloth for mule wool from them in June and the Board were saying they would pay about 50p/kg for the same wool. .
