Yes,easy to do,just remove the main pin that hold the vertical bars and the whole lot comes away
Talking to a farmer from Armagh today. He was saying Scottish farmers are coming over buying lambs. There's a lack of lamb in the UK due to poor weather at lambing time.
Hopefully will take from Northern lambs being slaughtered in the Republic
still no record book for sheep improvment scheme
I rang yesterday , end of this month for the record book
thanks for letting me know as was going to phone again next week
Got mine back Monday,along with a letter stating I'm getting a 50% penalty for not doing the genotyped ram task for last year,I bought the ram but didn't see the section in the book to submit the info.I explained what happened and re submitted the book with all the paperwork to the sis department in the offices in Portlaoise,so hopefully they will see it as a genuine mistake
Really can't wait till all the ewes and everything with them is gone out of here in the next month
are u getting out of sheep? If so will u have to repay the sheep scheme money.
Yea get out in August,No won't have to pay it according to scheme rules
Would mule ewes weaned a week naturally go in lamb again in early September for February lambing?
That would be a disaster IMHO,.would want 6 weeks away from there lambs at least and decent grass
Do you want lambs in February or no lambs in February but wondering if the ram needs to be kept away?
Whichever way you want it the opposite is what will happen.
If in good condition and you have plenty grass for them once dried off id imagine they should be cycling fine and go in lamb by then.thats 6 weeks away yet.
Have a lamb with fluid in one of its ears, must have got a bang or something.
Can that fluid be lanced out or removed with a syringe or will it just fade away in time?
Thanks.
What bolus do peop find best for ewes pre breeding ?
got sheep welfare record book today just wondering what the story about the extra 8 euro payment and we going to get another record book to record the extra actions we ate taking
You can download that from the Dept website.
worming lambs on Monday and I was going to dose them with the levacide low volume yellow drench , anyone use this dose before ? And will it kill all types of worms just not fluke ?
Hi lads have a 4.5 acre field reseeded and added 1kg of fodder rape to the acre. I will be getting sheep to graze it over the winter I have never had sheep but was thinking of buying store lambs and grazing them on it or either lease it out to a sheep farmer. Field is fully sheep fenced so hoping they do a good job in thickening up the sward. Has anyone ever done this before would 30 lambs be enough?
I went to the vets today to order Enzovax and Toxovax for hoggets, but they said only Toxovax was available this year.
Has anyone been able to get Enzovax recently?
I got it from our vet , but it is scarce, they had it ordered for us even though we didn't ask them to.
I didn't think it was so scarce,
https://www.farmacy.co.uk/inmeva-please-order-both-doses-together/p7855
First year vaccinating for Enzo here. Have a good few to do and it's a balls that's it's not available. The vet is recommending the above, it's new. Two shots like the heptavac p and a booster ever year.
Had a few abort this year and as tempting as it might be to skip it and wait for enzovax, the thought of a full blown abortion storm would fairly get rid of that thought.
Lambs are doing very well this year.
Main difference is:
Normally I'd have a good few runts after weaning but very few now. I havnt needed to buy any nuts.
What was the mineral dose plan?
When did you start topping, and what height is it set at?
Worm dose, 2 weeks, mineral dose, 2 weeks and then cobalt dose. Then back to the worm dose 2 weeks later.
Not sure what height the topper is at but it does cut fairly tight.
anyone got a good place for doing fec samples. The place I normally use isn’t doing it now due to staff shortages or so they say,
I’m tv opposite. Lambs very poor. Have dosed them with a white and yellow drench but still scourge, have them on cobalt every 2 weeks but are not thriving,
Thanks
I mowed all the paddocks in june and none since, I think I should've kept topping after every grazing, grass quality is deteriorating even though the ewes are grazing the paddocks after the lambs.
It's important to be doing fec now, we did a FEC for a neighbour this morning, the result was 920 after a clear dose three weeks ago, it obviously didnt work at all. Lambs have lost a months thrive
Do lads generally pool samples or do individual samples?
Pooling the samples works alright, provided you take similar marble sized samples from each lamb and sample 20% of the flock. 20 samples is enough for a flock of over 100
The more lambs sampled the better
used to pool, but based on advise from a vet now provide individual samples and let the vet/lab pool them. Find the results bit more consistent I think
