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General sheep thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Jonnyc135


    Update on the sheep that was rejecting one lamb when she was put into the shed - must have been some smell in the shed that totally upscucctled the sheep. Left her in the halter for the night in case she would beat lamb, took off halter in morning, washed both lambs with warm water and soap, left in another pen so they were crying to the sheep for 15 mins then let them into open pen outside the shed and she took to them and let suck straight away and then let them out the field.

    Wonder was there some smell of cleanings in the shed that caused the sheep to flip literally the moment she walked into the shed - hard to know what goes on inside these animals heads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Old people here used to say keep them out ASAP...a shed is not their natural environment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,657 ✭✭✭Sami23


    Will be hard get newborn lambs out for the rest of week with the weather that's promised.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭kk.man




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭DJ98


    What's the best orphan lamb feeder available or what would people recommend?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭joe35


    Done deal.


    Sorry dj, I don't tend to have many triplets. Any I do a friend takes them for his grandchildren. I don't even charge for them



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Found a ewe had slipped her lambs today in the shed. I’m feeding slot of old bales of hay at moment and I know a few cats have been up there. Hope it’s not the start of anything. Was a bought in hogget and not vaccinated.

    a month out from lambing. She was in a pen that was a bit crowded so that did t help either



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


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    Scanning day here in Leitrim. 4 old ewes I should of culled after weaning were empty 🙃. Expecting a higher % on the other half in Kildare next week but overall not too bad. No triplets thank god 😅.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Are they mountain sheep?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Hi. I’m thinking of getting a sheep race and scales and gates. I’ll fill in the TAMs meself. Has anyone bought equipment from Buffalo in Wicklow? They have everything but just wondering on quality. Fox are also in that corner of the country. Thanks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭DJ98


    Never dealt with buffalo but got all the above off Stanley in laois. Very impressed with the quality and wasn't over priced at the time. Looking at some of the stuff buffalo have for sale through tirlan and the prices are mad.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Have bought from both. Both very good quality and sound lads. So what ever is cheaper and handiest for you.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


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    Might not be a bad year to lamb ewes if this carries on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,080 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    early Easter and Ramadan this year. Will the inevitable downturn in price soon follow, to what level is the question



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭roosky


    Ya it’s funny yet you will get the best of twin lamb in lamb ewes for €200…..something not making sense somewhere !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,952 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Not many looking for the hassle of lambing ewes nowadays. The pay would want to be good!

    Hopefully the weather improves soon. It’d be as good as a few cents/kg.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,952 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Any quotes for spring lamb? Usually a euro ahead of hoggets.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,952 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Any recommendations for tidy EID tags to put on lambs at 2 days old?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Cran


    I tried the Alflex bubble rags for first time this week on young lambs look good



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭DJ98



    I think it's cruel practice tagging young lambs, ears drooping and lambs with sore ears especially going through the mart



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭somofagun


    Two week into Lambing and its been a mixed bag so far, lost 2 sets of triplets and 1 ewe last Saturday, I had been treat one for suspected twin lamb and the other was trying to push out the reed bed a week before so she had the rope on her. All lambs bar 2 were pulled out dead but these two didn't last long.

    I have lost 9 lambs from the 11 that have lambed so far which is the worst start I have had to a lambing season. Have 6 triplets left to lamb so let hope they go well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭joe35


    Sorry to hear that somo. Hopefully things will pick up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭roosky


    Keep the head up, we all have spells like that where things go from bad to worse not matter what you try! Don’t let it get you down too much, take note of what the causes were and make any changes you can now and anything that’s outside your control forget about it and focus on keep as many of the remaining alive as possible



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭joe35


    A few sayings my grandparents had growing up.


    Devil (divil) and all bad luck go with it.

    Once it's outside the door

    If you have livestock you'll have dead stock.


    I can hear my grandparents saying these things to me when something like above goes wrong. They each had there own one



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,952 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Keep the head up. Every farmer goes through a bad patch and learns lots from it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,543 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    You need to learn from it or you'll keep having the problems. Our motto is that 'you should never waste a dead sheep', we get post mortem done on most that dies and learn not to let it happen again,

    We seldom get a vet now because by getting the vet over the years you learn the obvious diagnosis, we tell teh vet what's wrong and they they give out the remedy . people who ask about lambs on facebook will never learn because you can't diagnose a lamb from a photograph



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭Homer jay


    Hi all, I only had 20 ewes to lamb down this year, only new to lambing sheep, this is the third year, the last two years no major problems with lambing other than ewes lying on lambs and the odd lost lamb but this year I had 6 out of the 20 lambing down with mastitis, some with full mastitis both sides others with blood only coming in teat and others with blood mixed with milk. What could be causing that amount of mastitis ? When I was weaning them last year I was just pulling off the lambs for the factory and leaving the ewes out where as other years I would have put the ewes into the shed on Hay for 2 weeks. I checked their elders before the ram was let out and didn't notice anything major wrong with them. Thanks James.



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