General sheep thread

Is there a spec for Gates and Gate posts to be used when drawing a TAMs grant on them?

Whats the going rate for a decent pedigree charlois ram lamb

You will need a flock number and sheep dispatch book for selling them, re tags they will be tagged when buying them but no harm requesting a box of sheep tags incase ones fall out.

your own herd no will do at least it did a couple of years ago

Neibours ewes and lambs are flat our breaking Into my glas wild bird cover on and off for the past 5 years...sick of running them back out to his at this stage,..asked him numerous times to fence them in to his own but never bothers...anyone any ideas of what to do?..often tempted to load up a go of his lambs a sell them to teach him a lesson but only a thought of rage as I'm not going to break the law

That’s what I use. It’s the finest and doesn’t miss a trick, although when I get to near finishing the bottle you have to be careful not to suck in air.

there’s ones with a long tube and you hang the bottle around your neck

thanks lads, have ye got a brand name for it ?

Going to start feeding what lambs I have left as grass is gone very tight. Is there a big difference in the price of meal in 25kg and bulk bags?

Will it pay you to do that with the price of meal. I'd be slow to go with meal this early this year.

If they're light no point feeding expensive meal, it'll cost too much to finish them.

If they're forward stores you might do as well in the mart when you add the price of meal onto what you get now.

It's not about maximising the money got from each lamb but maximising the profit/ minimising the loss. No point in putting €25 of meal in to get €20 more when selling, you'd have €25 more per lamb but €5 less better off.

You might be able to sell some light stores and keep grass for forward stores.

yea same here decent frames but handle poor .

For it to work properly, ewes cant be within smell or sight of the rams for 60 days before the initial introduction.

On saying that..... it will be a help to do as you say, The rams chatting up the ewes through a gate will help them to start cycling.

It helps to wind up the rams too.

Then let them out to the ewes fourteen days from the initial introduction

Anyone ever get a ram with a hole in their back, id say he was picked by a magpie and was too lazy to do anything about it, have applied tar oil to keep flies away, has anyone any ideas on what to do or should it heal itself? thanks in advance

Had it before, probably a nick from shearing and flies/maggots eat at it.

Bit of jeano ointment. Not sure of the proper name or spelling 🙈, but it's the stuff dairy men use on cows to keep flies away.

Bad with flys at the moment.