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Just a thread for miscellaneous questions that don't deserve their own thread iykwim .

Does anyone know what this is? Took this picture a few months ago and she healed after a while through injections and formalin

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farawaygrass

White Clover wrote: »

What way do you work the discs? I just use one colour for twin born ewe lambs and another colour for triplet born ewe lambs.

Do you tag them at birth? I don’t tag till autumn time, and just put two of the same colour in each ear

White Clover

farawaygrass wrote: »

One tip I’ll give you Is put a coloured management disc on both tags. Reason being Is if a sheep loses a tag then 50/50 chance the management tag will be gone too.
I use the Cormac management discs with their tags too and they fit either tag. Imagine it’d be the same across the board.

What way do you work the discs? I just use one colour for twin born ewe lambs and another colour for triplet born ewe lambs.

farawaygrass

Young95 wrote: »

Folks I’m tagging my replacement hoggots this weekend with the eid tag set of the button tag and one normal tag . This year I’m also putting a coloured management disc in one of there ears with the tag . Just wondering which tag those the management discs suit best ? The button tag or the normal big visual tag ?

One tip I’ll give you Is put a coloured management disc on both tags. Reason being Is if a sheep loses a tag then 50/50 chance the management tag will be gone too.
I use the Cormac management discs with their tags too and they fit either tag. Imagine it’d be the same across the board.

Young95

Folks I’m tagging my replacement hoggots this weekend with the eid tag set of the button tag and one normal tag . This year I’m also putting a coloured management disc in one of there ears with the tag . Just wondering which tag those the management discs suit best ? The button tag or the normal big visual tag ?

Kevhog1988

OneMan37 wrote: »

Have 15 Hoggs scanned to lamb last few weeks but nothing. They were moved with difficulty and pushed onto a trailer a month or more ago. Must have pitched lambs ?

Theyd hardly all lose them?

OneMan37

Have 15 Hoggs scanned to lamb last few weeks but nothing. They were moved with difficulty and pushed onto a trailer a month or more ago. Must have pitched lambs ?

Kevhog1988

wrangler wrote: »

Oxytocin only works within hours of birth, ..... if it's going to work.

seem sot be starting to let some down now but topped lambs up anyway.

White Clover

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Yep shed be the heaviest ewe we have

Probably fatty liver affecting her. I'd give 100ml/day of Ketovit/chanatol for a week to clear out the liver. They function better then.

wrangler

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?

Oxytocin only works within hours of birth, ..... if it's going to work.

Kevhog1988

White Clover wrote: »

Is she very fat?

Yep shed be the heaviest ewe we have

White Clover

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?

Is she very fat?

Kevhog1988

Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?

Tileman

Western Pomise wrote: »

Thanks....tbh I don't pass much heed of prices up on donedeal, especially if stock are 'dear' as you will have fellas looking for London for middling stock as they have heard sheep are a good trade!:)

Mart prices reflect the reality on the ground much more accurately imo.

All the sheep Mary’s are online. Just check in for 20 mins into a few as there are only a few lots in most Marts. At least I will see the quality

Western Pomise

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

see ewe and single at around 200/250 on donedeal.

Thanks....tbh I don't pass much heed of prices up on donedeal, especially if stock are 'dear' as you will have fellas looking for London for middling stock as they have heard sheep are a good trade!:)

Mart prices reflect the reality on the ground much more accurately imo.

Kevhog1988

Western Pomise wrote: »

Hi all.
just bumping this.....has anyone seen ewes with lambs at foot or feeder hoggetts sold in last week or two online?.....heard from one man that ewes with lambs at foot are well back in price but he had only heard it second hand from someone who works in a Mart.

The lack of grass on a lot of farms is probably contributing to the drop in prices.People afraid to buy stock .

Thanks for any replies to anyone who has seen Hoggetts or ewes with lambs sold online lately.

see ewe and single at around 200/250 on donedeal.

Western Pomise

Western Pomise wrote: »

Anyone watch any online sheep marts lately?.....or buy or sell stock?

Are ewes with lambs at foot as dear as ever?
What kind of trade are plain hoggetts for keeping for the Summer?

Hi all.
just bumping this.....has anyone seen ewes with lambs at foot or feeder hoggetts sold in last week or two online?.....heard from one man that ewes with lambs at foot are well back in price but he had only heard it second hand from someone who works in a Mart.

The lack of grass on a lot of farms is probably contributing to the drop in prices.People afraid to buy stock .

Thanks for any replies to anyone who has seen Hoggetts or ewes with lambs sold online lately.

k mac

farawaygrass wrote: »

Ya notice them picking white thorn a good bit. Dosed them with cobalt last weekend. Bout a month ago they were mad at putting their heads through sheep wire and picking at old grass

Had i bugger of a lamb at the same here and he kept getting his head stuck then in the sheep wire.. thankfully seems to have stopped now, might be getting a bit of sense

wrangler

White Clover wrote: »

Mid March onwards. We'd be on heavy ground that is high in molybdenum. Alot of minerals locked up or lacking. We'd go through minerals for fun to keep them right.

Lambs are always eating the ditches here, I pass no re,arks on them, they just like something different. We'd have them well bolused here for minerals

White Clover

Young95 wrote: »

What age are the lambs ? You would think they’d get all mineral from sucking the ewes ?

Mid March onwards. We'd be on heavy ground that is high in molybdenum. Alot of minerals locked up or lacking. We'd go through minerals for fun to keep them right.

Young95

White Clover wrote: »

Ya they're definitely lacking something. I'll have them in this week and I'll give a mineral drench too.

What age are the lambs ? You would think they’d get all mineral from sucking the ewes ?

White Clover

farawaygrass wrote: »

Ya notice them picking white thorn a good bit. Dosed them with cobalt last weekend. Bout a month ago they were mad at putting their heads through sheep wire and picking at old grass

Ya they're definitely lacking something. I'll have them in this week and I'll give a mineral drench too.

farawaygrass

White Clover wrote: »

Is anyone else's lambs climbing ditches to eat briars etc? I presume its fibre they're lacking? The best of grass under them and they're climbing 8 or 10 foot ditches to get at wooly stuff.

Ya notice them picking white thorn a good bit. Dosed them with cobalt last weekend. Bout a month ago they were mad at putting their heads through sheep wire and picking at old grass

White Clover

Is anyone else's lambs climbing ditches to eat briars etc? I presume its fibre they're lacking? The best of grass under them and they're climbing 8 or 10 foot ditches to get at wooly stuff.

Western Pomise

Anyone watch any online sheep marts lately?.....or buy or sell stock?

Are ewes with lambs at foot as dear as ever?
What kind of trade are plain hoggetts for keeping for the Summer?

Tileman

DJ98 wrote: »

Finally got tams approval for sheep hurdles, adoption units, weighing scales and rollover crate. Where would be the best place to buy these, preferably all from one place. Was thinking of Stanley in Laois, have a race from there and I'm quite happy with it. Any other suggestions?

Yea I bought the scales , gates and adoption unit from Stanley last year. I didn’t get the turnover crate from them though. I find it a bit cumbersome. The gates and other quilmes is very good and Jason is very sound to deal with. Very reasonable too well he was before all the recent steel prices anyway.

DJ98

Finally got tams approval for sheep hurdles, adoption units, weighing scales and rollover crate. Where would be the best place to buy these, preferably all from one place. Was thinking of Stanley in Laois, have a race from there and I'm quite happy with it. Any other suggestions?

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Green farmer wrote: »

Never met the guy, but enjoy listening to the podcasts.

He's been to the farm here, he's sound. For a Tipp lad.

Green farmer

AntrimGlens wrote: »

That's him, he's sound out.

Never met the guy, but enjoy listening to the podcasts.

AntrimGlens

Green farmer wrote: »

Is that the lad that does the podcasts ?

That's him, he's sound out.

Green farmer

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Try Noel Clancy in Tipp, he's bought a few rams from up this way and has good ewes.

itl

Is that the lad that does the podcasts ?