General sheep thread

Surprisingly average prices in Kilkenny today considering the lamb trade.

A neighbour phoned me from the sale asking for advice, one of the texels he was interested in came from a breeder I knew to have Texel Throat in his flock, so he asked him about it,........ he was told that the lambs sire was prone to breeding TT alright and he couldn't guarantee that thei lamb wouldn't get it either

A neighbour lost two of the same breeders rams with TT, one after one season and the other after two seasons. Those guys should be made compensate

200 - 2300 in the texels, most 400 - 700. char similar. didnt watch the rest

Have done it before here with no issues at all.work away I'd say

85 euro give or take

Jesus. Afraid i have no cure for you. Is it very sore?

Have a lamb bad with it here, its after going into her gum - which I haven't even seen before. Not sure what can be done for her either, its getting better now, I just thjnk it has to run its course...

Ya I got it on my finger a few years back. Looked really nasty but wasn’t a bit sore. Looked like a massive infected blister but no fluid inside it. I got small swollen lymph nodes in my armpit too but again that didn’t hurt.

dint know about any cures but if it’s any reassurance it didn’t hurt and it didn’t cause any issues

Just on the previous post about orf i ended up fairly sick with it. i had to go to the doctor twice and get two sets of antibiotics.

Anyone on here have a bateson livestock trailer with sheep decks? If so how do you manage the deck system, its very awkward to load and unload on your own as you have to lift half of the deck up with the weight of the lambs. Just wondering has anyone with one came up with a design to make it easier

Thanks wrangler, I was thinking about a winch earlier alright but wasn't sure which one would be best.

Is anyone else finding it a tough couple of weeks for ewes getting lame ?? Never had it as bad most been the warm damp days

You can buy them singly in my local coop

Almost better. left with a mark almost like a burn on my hand but healing up well. have a few photos of it. must throw them up here

The likes of that ram you looked at should be culled imo. Had to buy a few rams this year and it seems like people are putting rams for sale with obvious faults, bad mouths, down in the pasterns and in some cases just screws of things that should never have been kept for rams. Or else they haven't a clue and a sheep is a sheep.

I looked at a Suffolk hogget ram for instance, he was a fine ram but his teeth were so far forward they missed the pad on top. It was like a mouth of a aged sheep...would hate to see him at 3 years old. Said it to the breeder and he didn't know what I was on about. Ya would think breed Societys would be more on top of these kind of things.

Anyone here that keeps hill sheep on Commonage that i could pm a few questions to?

a fellow rang me from a multi breed sale that a texel breeder had 3 rams there, 2 had back legs that were quite obvious sickled inwards but the third seemed ok .

I knew the breeder in question and warned him that the ram must have a defect otherwise he'd be at a society sale , he watched from a distance and noticed that each time somebody entered the pen the ram laid shortly after they left, and in the ring he had very slow mobility with breeder holding him other than parading around.