charolais0153 wrote: » How much nuts are they getting. Have the ewes milk. Are they in good condition?
razor8 wrote: » What breeds?
arctictree wrote: » Lads, I have a rake of lambs out in this weather - heavy sleet. Will I be looking at losses?
FarmerDougal wrote: » Gonna be under pressure for individual pens if this continues for the week even after maxing out the tams hurdles
Sami23 wrote: » Some advice needed please: Ewes started lambing at wend and so far they are a bit short of milk overall. Think I seen here before that soya bean meal would be the best thing to add to the nuts so just wondering roughly how much soya should do I need to add ?
wrangler wrote: » How much meal are you giving to the doubles before they lamb Are the ewes in good condition, thin ewes won't milk
Sami23 wrote: » I'd say about 0.5kg give or take. Feeding then from 5 weeks out
wrangler wrote: » The last two or three weeks they'd need a kilo per day with average hay /silage. .5kg of an 18% protein ration gives them only 90gms protein/day and 200gms/day is recommended for a ewe carrying doubles, .5kg meal is the most you'd feed in one feed so feed them twice/day.
Sami23 wrote: » Thanks for that wrangler. Suppose I was afraid to feed too much for fear of lambs getting too big and leading to lambing difficulties. Would you recommend to add soya bean meal to the nuts now too?
Sami23 wrote: » What is the max amount of hurdles you can get through Tams if you don't mind me asking ? Also can you get just hurdles or do you hav to but a race or other equipment. Tia
arctictree wrote: » Lads, I adopted a 4 day old strong pet lamb onto a single bearing ewe earlier. The ewe has taken the lamb fine but the lamb just stands there bawling for me. I think he got too used to the bottle. Any advice?!
wrangler wrote: » You'll probably have to put him up to her to suck a few times a day, he'll eventually get the idea....don't give in to him anyway
FarmerDougal wrote: » You can get hurdles on there own I think, 75m max so just divide then length of hurdle into 75 to see most you can get I got 29 8ft. Suits well in narrow pens can be split up with just one hurdle between each ewe
MeTheMan wrote: » I taught I read that the minimum spend for tams was 2000? Can you get adoption gates, bucket holders, buckets on tams?
arctictree wrote: » Lads, just had a ewe lamb (1 year old) with twins. Would ye always take one off her?
Sami23 wrote: » Just to confuse things further. Someone was telling me like you said that indeed you need to have a minimum of 2000 net of vat on your application but if you get approval you can just buy say a scales n get paid for that alone if you didn't want to buy anything else you had on the application. Can anyone confirm this
foxirl wrote: » I just rang the dept and they confirmed that this is the case.
Siamsa Sessions wrote: » Great news if that's the case but it seems a bit bizarre. Why insist on a 2k euro minimum when it's just a paper exercise if people don't really have to spend that much?
