razor8 wrote: » Fair going. Is that what’s out in the field? What breed are the majority of them?
Dickie10 wrote: » christ, id love to pick your brains, lads like you have probably seen everything to do with sheep. my neighbiur runs 1100 ewes hes great for advice
stantheman1979 wrote: » I’m not doing anything special or different to any one else. I’ve the same problems as everyone on here. I’m sure there are fellas with 50 sheep who know more than me. I’m completely ruthless with culling. Prolapse, bad feet, no milk,bad mother’s, had singles twice I just wave them out the gate. I haven’t time to be sucking or tubing a lot of lambs or waiting for ewes in adoption units to take lambs.
theemigrant wrote: » What ewe would you think are the best mothers and what ram mixed with that throws a lamb that will get up and suck straight away?.
Dickie10 wrote: » yeah love to hear your answer here? I find llynn and HD great lambs to get going, especially the Llynn
Green farmer wrote: » Had a ewe start lambing outside in the last 20 minutes as I passed by. She got tired midway and stood up. But what I noticed was the even though she wasn't there long, the minute the lambs head was out and two legs still half back, the bag was drying and going hard from the sun. I burst the bag but if it had been another minute the lamb would have suffocated. Someone was asking last week, why the bags were hard, the answer in my case anyway, was the sun was drying it out.
stantheman1979 wrote: » That’s what’s in the fields. 2395 from ewes and 380 from hoggets. Ewes are majority belclare, good few Lleyn and texal X, few mules and horny crosses. I’d say 95% of the ewes are white faced. We’ve tried a lot of different breeds these do what they’re supposed to.
Dickie10 wrote: » are suffolk still as bad as ever when born/? havent had them in 6 or 7 years
razor8 wrote: » Mostly mule & Romney here that do most of work themselves Do you breed your own replacements? What do you do with triplets?
stantheman1979 wrote: » I’ve a few Romney ewes here. They do a great job without much fuss. Yeah we breed most of our replacements except for mules we get from the same man for last few years. Triplets get fostered on. I try to get as many ewes as possible rearing two. A man buys about 50 at a few days old for €20. The rest I rear on an automatic machine. Think we’ve about 50-60 on it now.
theemigrant wrote: » Buying 50 pet lambs is inviting hardship on yourself. Weve 2 here at the moment and im lucky that the young lad is home from school.
[Deleted User] wrote: » Tbf its nearly as easy to rear 50 as 5,on the feeder I made one last year,(still have to mix myself) and its a great job,nearly match the performance of lambs on the ewe
Deleted User wrote: » Tbf its nearly as easy to rear 50 as 5,on the feeder I made one last year,(still have to mix myself) and its a great job,nearly match the performance of lambs on the ewe
stantheman1979 wrote: » Exactly I’m just doing things on a slightly different scale. When you’re set up right it’s as easy to have 1000 sheep as it is 10. I still gotta get up and put my boots on and go do it like everyone else but instead of having a ewe lambing I might have a dozen. If I’m organised right ie good set up and sheep who do their job I’ll be done before the fella chasing around after a sheep or sucking/tubing lambs. Same with pet lambs I don’t want the fookers but I have the machine soI just make sure it has plenty of powder and they have creep and leave them to it. I find some of the pets are fit before lambs with their mothers most years provided you never let them outside.
stantheman1979 wrote: » Exactly I’m just doing things on a slightly different scale. When you’re set up right it’s as easy to have 1000 sheep as it is 10. .
theemigrant wrote: » How long would you have them pets indoors for?.
theemigrant wrote: » Is yours heated or cold?. I have the tubes and the plate with the teat on it to feed them out of a bottle but the young lad is loving bottle feeding them so i never bothered.
Deleted User wrote: » Its not heated (i bought them spehardess repair kits and put them onto a board,much cheaper) ,but i mix it warm to give em morning and evening Have creep and hay ab-lib along side it But its always good to get kids involved in it ..i gave away one to a young wan,child of a mate,whos pure mad about animals etc,but with being off school etc was stuck indoors on phone,letargic,fighting with siblings etc and now he's delighted as she do be out in morning to feed lamb etc and brings it for walks etc
orm0nd wrote: » It may be orf or as stated from the 3 constantly sucking her. Keep her milked out. Hold her a few times a day if possible to get the lambs to drink.
arctictree wrote: » I put her in a single pen yesterday and the lambs in a pen beside her. Gave her some of the nipple cream the wife has and she seems to be healing up really well! One teat though has a big scab and very little milk. It will be destroyed if I put the lambs back. I think I'll just put one lamb back on her. Is there any way I can make the lamb just use one teat? I'm thinking of a bra with a hole for the working one!
Lambman wrote: » Had an elderly fella die that fattened cattle near our out farm couple months ago. Left farm till daughter who has since leased it out. Anyways contractor rang me till say he was mixing the tanks in the sheds as she wanted them emptied but the man who leased the land has it closed for silage so he asked would I take a few loads in field next till road about 8.5 acres grazed till ewes came in for scanning so just a bit a cover on it. He messaged till say he put 35,000 gallons on it I'm feard till even go look at it. Long would yous think before I could graze it with sheep?
Murang wrote: » The mules you get is hoggets or strong ewe lambs you buy
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