Sheep Photo Thread

rangler1 wrote: »

My lleyn lambs before the rain last week

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Great lambs . I'd be proud of that field.

arctictree wrote: »

The lleyn/Charlie triplets I decided to leave on the ewe (Born 04/04). Seem to be doing OK...

Look very well and plenty of grass :-)

Cran wrote: »

Look really well, nice grass really clean pasture fair play

Think the grass is just about to get away on me. I have 12 ewes in that field (just over 2 acres, reseeded last spring) with 21 lambs. The lambs are starting to eat grass now so I might be OK.

Managed to figure out how to upload pics. Pet lambs I'm feeding after their mother got tetany a week or so ago

Green farmer wrote: »

A single born 1st week April onwards.

Would you consider splitting that field up a bit? Looks like v.good land, capable of carrying a high stocking rate.

Green farmer wrote: »

Ya, it's my best field. It's on the "to do list" will probably split it into 3 paddocks. Anybody know what's the quickest way of laying water pipe without tearing up the field to bad.

I got the some of the farm done last year by guy with one of those vibrating mole ploughs. Some job and remember thinking it didn't work out as expensive as you would think. He did 7 paddocks over 70 acres in couple of hours and you would barely notice where it was done, even went across a stone lane without really damaging it....

Strange markings on this little fella

No he was born inside, hes a twin out of a Cheviot ewe

Donedeal, yep, my view as to some of the asking prices I've seen up there is, if you feel your sheep are really worth as much as you asking on your ad, sell your sheep through the mart and prove your right !!!
There is a difference in getting a fair price for your sheep and attempting to fleece someone !!! Literally

ganmo wrote: »

the prices they should be getting from DD should be cheaper than they'd get in the mart anyway(mart commission etc)

Don't get me wrong I've bought some sheep from there, and you will meet some very honest farmers there, but mixed in with that, I've also lost count of the amount of guys I've rang up and, to put it mildly their pricing was .... Ambitious.

The plan is to use them as replacements. They aren't doing too bad at all, considering the size they were when born. Losing the wool by rubbing on a fallen branch off a tree. If the weather warms up a bit I will get them shorn. left it late last year, and they guy was booked up for weeks and had a few cases of fly strike. hatefull ba5tards of things.

Well there are only a half dozen texel that I bought at a mart one day cause they seemed cheap, plus 23 Cheviot ewe lambs. Popped the cheviot ram in with them first week of November, That made 30 in total in the block they were in. Hope to keep the offspring and put a Suffolk on them, and keep their lambs for Borris type ewes. that's the plan anyway. Many's a thing could change in the meantime!
The rest are a mixture and gatherum of things, Suffolk crosses, a few full Suffolk, a good few grey face's etc. They (80) got the Cheviot ram and the Charolais thrown in in the end of August. Still at the building up numbers stage. will try and get a few batches of Borris type ewes /Hoggets end of the summer. Am very under stocked at the moment, I feel I could feed another 200 ewes probably in time.

PS the 23 ewe lambs have 24 lambs on the ground, plus a another twin lamb that I sold as a pet, and the 6 Texel types have had 2 singles, three sets of twins and the set of triplets. So 11 lambs from 6 is OK in my book.!