razor8 wrote: » You’ll be feeding lambs all winter if you haven’t any grass when they lamb. Good green grass is rocket fuel for a milking ewe Letting a batch of ewes into lush grass could cause prolapses
Green farmer wrote: » I don’t know lads, flip a coin. The weather is all over the place , totally unpredictable, but luckily on the right side of that unpredictablility. Edit, Actually I’m going to see if I can tighten them up further and fertilise a paddock or two and see what growth is coming. If it’s shooting up, might then leave ewes in to others, on a limited basis.
Green farmer wrote: » Fair enough lads, will keep them out of it, tempting and all it is. Might still put out some fert on later closed up ground and see how it comes back.
roosky wrote: » I await your post in early April of you cutting excess silage off the said paddock telling us that we are all a bunch of clowns
White Clover wrote: » What way are lads here going to tag lambs this year? Is it as well to double tag them at birth, be easier for management records too, or are the Cormac tags I usually use too big for young lambs?
ganmo wrote: » i'd wait for a day or 2 at least.
Mad_maxx wrote: » I bought and owned a dozen ewe lambs for five months last year to keep the field surrounding house eaten down, got away with only dosing once, what is the earliest you might be able to buy weaned lambs which wouldn't need shearing for the coming season, with the early spring, I've a nice cover of grass developing, would mid April see any weaned lambs or is that far too early
roosky wrote: » Probably looking later like june, Early lambs will either be pedigree or be finished commanding a high price as its out of season
chippy78 wrote: » Hi lads I’m lambing on April 1st and housing on Paddy’s day. I have plenty grass and am wondering if I should supplement ewes at grass before they go indoors to lamb or is the grass sufficient? I can’t find a grass based supplement table online all of them seem to be silage based.
Lambman wrote: » You must a scanned over the 90 days when he couldn't pick the 3 up?
arctictree wrote: » Yeah, think so. Ram in on 30/09 and scanned on 06/01. Plan was to bring in the flock today. Nice to see 3 healthy lambs born without assistance in the field.
Siamsa Sessions wrote: » Have a look at the bottom of p.21 here: http://beefandlamb.ahdb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BRP-Improving-ewe-nutrition-manual-12-050416.pdf If a ewe is eating a kg of grass she'll get 10-11MJ of her nutrition. The table on p.4 will tell you you how much she needs as she gets into her last weeks before lambing. A decent meal/concentrate ration will have 12MJ per kg. So, if he needs say 17MJ the week she's lambing, 0.5kg of meal will give her the 6MJ she needs in addition to the 10-11MJ she gets from the kg of grass. Double-check all these numbers for your own situation but this example should give you ball-park figures at least.
Siamsa Sessions wrote: » Took soil samples from a few fields recently and got the results back today. The pH is better than I thought and is higher now than it was before we put the sheep on the fields back in 2016. The fields got lime in late 2016 but never too much fertiliser and no slurry or dung. We took a few bales off them here and there but again never anything too intensive. Do people think sheep are good for soil fertility overall? Do many others regularly do soil tests?
charolais0153 wrote: » Had 3 born last night fine lambs were all standing last night. Gave them a suck and went to bed,got up this morning at 9 woke up and went out,nothing happening so i ate my breakfast and went inside. Came out at half 9 and one was lied on. Sheep eh:rolleyes:
charolais0153 wrote: » Ya sheep are great for land. Their dung is richer than cattles
Bleating Lamb wrote: » Sitting here bringing Flock register up to date for an elderly neighbour ....he asked me to do it for him a few days back...first time helping him with flock register.....quick question to anyone looking in at mo....his system is buying in ewe lambs in August September and selling a year later....in perfect world should he have retagged lambs on coming in the gate with his own electronic tags or is it time enough that he tagged them at later stage with his own tags?.....don’t want to do book up wrong for him. Thanks for any answers ASAP.
Dinzee Conlee wrote: » I have the same system... As White Clover said - I cut out the old mart tags, and replace with two EID of my own. Record in flock register as numbers 1 - x retagged with tags 99 - y... As regards dates, I only do mine around Christmas and they are bought in Sept. I thought the rule was lambs had to be tagged at months, so I kinda stuck to that (given they would be March Lambs)
kk.man wrote: » I think a lamb must be 12 months old to 're tag. Tbh who knows their age! I use the foot pare thingy and cut out old ones ...used a knife the 1st year and it was cumersome.
