General sheep thread

you may top it up with soya or the milk will suffer

If you mix 9 parts 18% ration with 1 part soya, It should give you a 21%P ration. That'd be big improvement.

.1kg (3.5 ozs) soya per ewe should do it

Not a bad outcome for a Ewe that was near deaths door back in December.

No idea tbh.

I gave her a few different doses to cover fluke and worms and got an injection from the vet as well for her.

She had been dosed with Flukiver in early November

It ain’t a pretty picture…..had v similar a few years ago.

405 a tonne blown in.

Anyone able to get Heptavac P? I didn't realise the shortage will still ongoing until I went to try and get some!!

I have one unopened 500ml bottle in the fridge if anyone wants to collect in leitrim area

im selling sheep on DoneDeal at the moment and lads are asking for a good like penny

What is a fair luck penny, I often feel we I’m giving too much or too little ! But then again we agree a price and lads want another €50 off that !

Do ye judge it by number of sheep or total value of :sale …. Like what would be fair for the following, I generally end up giving too much back to the man buying a small number and not enough to the fella buying a large number

1. Person buying 30 sheep for 7500
2. Person buying 10 sheep for 2500
3. Person buying 3 sheep for 750
4. Person buying 1 sheep for 250

Synulox/noroclav for 5 days and if you can at all do 7 days. Don't be tempted to stop when he's better after 3 or 4 days. If you have anti inflammatory give that as well.

have an inspection on Friday for the sheep welfare scheme.
anyone have one recently what we’re looking for. All is in order so no worries but may che k that all ewes have their tags. Anything else ?

Have had two inspections in the last 5-6 years. You need to get something like 40% of the herd in the pen. He will scan their tags and then go on the laptop to check against movement certs to make sure they are in your flock. Then he'll look at your flock register for whatever is left. He'll be looking for a record of you tagging your own replacements (this is where I fell down!). If he's sticky he might also do the sums to see if the number you entered in the most recent census is correct. So current number of ewes + deaths + sales - bought in should tally exactly with what you had on the 1st Jan and he'll also be checking that you are above your reference number for the scheme. That's it really, if there's a few with one tag he'll comment on it but it's fine as long as it's not loads.

The most annoying thing for me was the last time I got the call a couples of days after I got the last of the ewes and lambs out to grass and I didn't want to be putting them back in the shed for a few weeks. Time before that he rang me the day after I let out the rams. I asked him to leave it a few weeks but he wouldn't.

Don't get stressed about it anyway, they're only sheep!

You don't even have to match them in the register.

just put down the number of the new tags

Hi all, we got our own flock number 2 years ago in the wife's name.

We currently lease about 40 acres and own 4. We have no entitlements and normally rent in a few.

Would we get any entertainments if we applied to the national reserve.

Thanks for any replies

Thanks roosky, my advicer said she wouldn't be entitled to anything without the green cert. I'm going to get him to ask anyway