Sheep Photo Thread

sako 85 · 01-08-2014 10:11AM

Artictree, I'd say they'd make great sheep.

Green farmer · 01-08-2014 11:20AM

Lovely clean looking breeding stock there sako

arctictree · 03-08-2014 09:34PM

Here are 2 of my Cheviott/llyen crosses. These two are part of a set of triplets, born on 04 April. Weighed today at 33 and 34 kg.

Farrell · 03-08-2014 11:04PM

arctictree wrote: »

Here are 2 of my Cheviott/llyen crosses. These two are part of a set of triplets, born on 04 April. Weighed today at 33 and 34 kg.

Nice looking lambs, will you breed them this year?

arctictree · 03-08-2014 11:10PM

Farrell wrote: »

Nice looking lambs, will you breed them this year?

Might sell the females as dry breeding hoggets next year.

Green farmer · 03-08-2014 11:17PM

What are hogget prices like at the moment ? Saw an ad looking for €190 for hoggets earlier ?

arctictree · 05-08-2014 10:27AM

Green farmer wrote: »

What are hogget prices like at the moment ? Saw an ad looking for €190 for hoggets earlier ?

Breeding hoggets seem to be making very good prices this year. I heard its due to the high kill when prices were high in March/April.

rangler1 · 05-08-2014 10:30AM

arctictree wrote: »

Breeding hoggets seem to be making very good prices this year. I heard its due to the high kill when prices were high in March/April.

Seems to be a good demand for stock alright
A lot of cattle farmers have asked me about sheep in the last month here, even had a young fellow looking at the setup here on sat, and the implications of lambing ewe lambs.......it might be time to be getting out

sako 85 · 05-08-2014 10:50AM

From looking at Mart reports, €190 seems very excessive, I would have thought €160 would buy top quality Hoggets.

Birdnuts · 05-08-2014 12:14PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Seems to be a good demand for stock alright
A lot of cattle farmers have asked me about sheep in the last month here, even had a young fellow looking at the setup here on sat, and the implications of lambing ewe lambs.......it might be time to be getting out

I'm inclined to agree. My parents live in Kildare bloodstock country and its noticiable the number of stud farms and general horsey types acquiring breeding flocks over the past year or 2. Another bubble perhaps??

:(

Green farmer · 05-08-2014 03:13PM

The add I saw looking for €190 was on dd. I find it amusing when they say "no time wasters please". I often wonder who's wasting who's time with those price quotes. I'm of the opinion that €160 for top quality x breed breeding hoggets is fair on both sides.

jt65 · 05-08-2014 07:09PM

seems hoggets are hitting €200 at some marts,

anyone else fed up with the very poor pics on DD ie sheep about 50 yards away in the corner of a field

if the vendor couldn't be bothered to pen up his stock and take proper photos, I'm not going to waste time & diesel travelling

Green farmer · 05-08-2014 07:50PM

I find it easier to go to mart, unless you can a right genuine person selling sheep. Walk along pen to pen until you see sheep that suit you. A few bad experiences of spending time driving to guys to look at sheep that turn out to not be as advertised puts me off.

arctictree · 06-08-2014 02:46PM

sako 85 wrote: »

From looking at Mart reports, €190 seems very excessive, I would have thought €160 would buy top quality Hoggets.

What about this lad:

http://www.donedeal.ie/sheep-for-sale/16-hoggets/7433329

€197 - must be very good stock.

razor8 · 15-08-2014 12:34PM

rangler1 wrote: »

I use ANIMAX, costing about €1.70/lamb or ewe, for the three boluses.
boluses are very big and hard to administer, but you can give the three at the one dose and they're supposed to last six mths

lambs wool at home look a bit white looking for my liking despite getting a cobalt, selenium trench three weeks ago along with worm dose

thinking of trying a bolus on a few as a trial, where do me buy the animax bolus rangler?

rangler1 · 15-08-2014 01:08PM

razor8 wrote: »

lambs wool at home look a bit white looking for my liking despite getting a cobalt, selenium trench three weeks ago along with worm dose

thinking of trying a bolus on a few as a trial, where do me buy the animax bolus rangler?

Flor Ryan is their rep here in Ireland, he'll tell you who stocks them in your area,.......Had his no. up, but will PM it instead
There's a lot of places selling them now

razor8 · 15-08-2014 02:43PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Flor Ryan is their rep here in Ireland, he'll tell you who stocks them in your area,.......Had his no. up, but will PM it instead
There's a lot of places selling them now

Thanks, have you ever tried agrimin, I see they do a 3 in 1 at €66 for 50 billets and last 180 days in my local vets

Maybe it would be a waste to give to lambs that are nearly finished at this stage

rangler1 · 15-08-2014 04:08PM

razor8 wrote: »

Thanks, have you ever tried agrimin, I see they do a 3 in 1 at €66 for 50 billets and last 180 days in my local vets

Maybe it would be a waste to give to lambs that are nearly finished at this stage

Sounds a bit of a waste alright, lamb thrive is dropping fast at the moment and factories are complaining of two many fat score 2s coming in.
How long was the cobalt drench supposed to last, I know some only last a fortnight in a lamb. Never used agrimin

jmrc · 15-08-2014 04:39PM

Lads,

just discovered out place is down in Selenium, what the best coarse of action for ewes? drench or bullet?
we're down in copper and cobalt also, but we knew about that.

in your opinion would this combination effect cropping?

Thank you

razor8 · 15-08-2014 05:19PM

rangler1 wrote: »

Sounds a bit of a waste alright, lamb thrive is dropping fast at the moment and factories are complaining of two many fat score 2s coming in.
How long was the cobalt drench supposed to last, I know some only last a fortnight in a lamb. Never used agrimin

Putting on from .5 to 2 kgs a week here after last dose. A fortnight I think is what it says on container, may go again

Booked some in for next week only got 4.40 plus 10 QA, told base could be 4.30 for next week. Just not enough

razor8 · 15-08-2014 05:20PM

jmrc wrote: »

Lads,

just discovered out place is down in Selenium, what the best coarse of action for ewes? drench or bullet?
we're down in copper and cobalt also, but we knew about that.

in your opinion would this combination effect cropping?

Thank you

How did you go about finding it out?

ganmo · 15-08-2014 06:11PM

jmrc wrote: »

Lads,

just discovered out place is down in Selenium, what the best coarse of action for ewes? drench or bullet?
we're down in copper and cobalt also, but we knew about that.

in your opinion would this combination effect cropping?

Thank you

do you mean lamb crop or grazing?

Se deficiency mainly affects young animals causing white muscle disease.
if your looking for a supplement vit E and selenium do the same job.

jmrc · 19-08-2014 01:27PM

razor8 wrote: »

How did you go about finding it out?

We did a trace break down on a grass sample.
I'm told a liver sample is best but that means killing lambs... not yet.

jmrc · 19-08-2014 01:28PM

Ganmo,
Lamb cropping, thanks for the advice,

Cran · 23-08-2014 11:30PM

Some mule cross charollais picked out today, April born

sea12 · 24-08-2014 12:49PM

Cran wrote: »

Some mule cross charollais picked out today, April born

Nice looking sheep crab. What weight are they 46kg at a guess hard to tell in a photo though

Cran · 24-08-2014 02:07PM

sea12 wrote: »

Nice looking sheep crab. What weight are they 46kg at a guess hard to tell in a photo though

Average 52kg, strangest day weighing lambs yesterday. Lambs in a field away from main farm who are sort of left to their own devices all to heavy, lambs well looked after and on good reseed all lacking flesh totally confused.....

sea12 · 24-08-2014 06:26PM

Cran wrote: »

Average 52kg, strangest day weighing lambs yesterday. Lambs in a field away from main farm who are sort of left to their own devices all to heavy, lambs well looked after and on good reseed all lacking flesh totally confused.....

Well off on my guess.

I find the same with my own. They are on great new reseeded grass last free weeks but not putting on flesh like they should.,

razor8 · 24-08-2014 07:13PM

Here's my tuppence, had same issue 2 weeks ago and I knew it wasn't worms as they were clean so I went in with second mineral drench of the year and are piling on weight and flesh , some lambs done 5/6 kgs in 12 days, only got weighing a handful this morning but seems to have made a difference

sea12 · 24-08-2014 09:26PM

razor8 wrote: »

Here's my tuppence, had same issue 2 weeks ago and I knew it wasn't worms as they were clean so I went in with second mineral drench of the year and are piling on weight and flesh , some lambs done 5/6 kgs in 12 days, only got weighing a handful this morning but seems to have made a difference

Yep put a mineral block out with them and does seem to be helping.

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