Sheep Photo Thread

Thought I might add couple of pics to keep this going, must take some of the commerical sheep. First pic is my January lambers brought in over the weekend, and 2nd 3 ram lambs brought in out of ewes after 6 weeks.

Green farmer

Housed some store lambs yesterday. Trying to feed them with the least amount of wastage so make a feed channel for them. There's always one who manages to thwart my efforts though be sneaking in through the barrier.

Extra marks awarded for managing to stand in the drinker, probably dung in it as well!

Green farmer

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Extra marks awarded for managing to stand in the drinker, probably dung in it as well!

That lamb is an example of what pet lambs turn out like . Always in the way and never thrived. It's about half the size of the rest of them, hence being able to get In beyond the barrier.

Green farmer wrote: »

That lamb is an example of what pet lambs turn out like . Always in the way and never thrived. It's about half the size of the rest of them, hence being able to get In beyond the barrier.

Thought this might interest you, I could never get pet lambs to thrive on a bottle or keep alive, and they never caught up with others during the year no matter what I did. This is pic of pet lamb born mid Jan taken mid August, kept this fella for my own use. He's the lamb on the right back to camera in pic above just taken out of the ewes. This guys mother died day he was born, dont think he ever sucked a ewe.
Answer is surrogate heated feeder, dont know why it works so well but I've reared nearly 100 lambs last few years on it and one 1 or 2 ruts and 1 or 2 deaths which mainly were my fault not weaning early enough.

St. Stephens day on the hill, hope that is as close as the snow gets this year or next!

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

St. Stephens day on the hill, hope that is as close as the snow gets this year or next!

Allez les moutons!:D

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

St. Stephens day on the hill, hope that is as close as the snow gets this year or next!

Great photo, is that the 12 bens in front?

Cran wrote: »

Great photo, is that the 12 bens in front?

That's them, I'd say there was likely a little more snow on the Maumturks as they're a little farther inland than the Bens.

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

That's them, I'd say there was likely a little more snow on the Maumturks as they're a little farther inland than the Bens.

Climbed them few years ago, God was tough going the longest day

Cran wrote: »

Climbed them few years ago, God was tough going the longest day

Which did you do? The 'turks are a lot easier walked, less rock and flatter (relatively) once you get up high. The scree used to be my favourite

The Benchoona horseshoe, was a bad day though and weather came in. Made it a tough day out....

Cran wrote: »

The Benchoona horseshoe, was a bad day though and weather came in. Made it a tough day out....

No such thing as bad weather only bad clothing! Have done the Glencoaghan horseshoe, walked from Gleninagh via Ben Bán to Kylemore, and Muckanaght plus another one or two I can't recall off the top of my head. Horseshoe is best left until around the longest day, it's a long slog, six summits if I remember.

Cran wrote: »

Answer is surrogate heated feeder, dont know why it works so well but I've reared nearly 100 lambs last few years on it and one 1 or 2 ruts and 1 or 2 deaths which mainly were my fault not weaning early enough.

I'd be interested in something like that Cran, do my best not to have any pets but you know yourself. I think Sheperdess? is one breed, sorry, brand, habit

Do you know of others, or ones that'd suit on a small scale? ie chape but effective

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

I'd be interested in something like that Cran, do my best not to have any pets but you know yourself. I think Sheperdess? is one breed, sorry, brand, habit Do you know of others, or ones that'd suit on a small scale? ie chape but effective

Mine is a sturdy from wicklow, can't fault it. Check out sturdy products online have a decent site

Todays spectacle....:D

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Todays spectacle....:D

A type of shoplifting?

sea12

Went to dose ewes for fluke on Saturday. Had to take them in from the furthest land from yard so need help to get them home. Had them all in shed and race full and the fecking dosing gun Woulnt work, only 2 years old and always washed after use.
Couldn't find the old plastic one either and had thrown out a big syringe for stomach feeding ladt week. Do wasn't able to dose them after.

Some sickner

ganmo

sea12 wrote: »

Went to dose ewes for fluke on Saturday. Had to take them in from the furthest land from yard so need help to get them home. Had them all in shed and race full and the fecking dosing gun Woulnt work, only 2 years old and always washed after use.
Couldn't find the old plastic one either and had thrown out a big syringe for stomach feeding ladt week. Do wasn't able to dose them after.

Some sickner

I got a set of spare bits for the dosing gun a while back off moreway.ie think they called it a service kit. at the time the valves and plunger weren't right and they came in the kit cost about 30 quid.

sea12

ganmo wrote: »

I got a set of spare bits for the dosing gun a while back off moreway.ie think they called it a service kit. at the time the valves and plunger weren't right and they came in the kit cost about 30 quid.

Cheers. Have it taken apart to clean and dry out and will see what happens

Username John

sea12 wrote: »

Went to dose ewes for fluke on Saturday. Had to take them in from the furthest land from yard so need help to get them home. Had them all in shed and race full and the fecking dosing gun Woulnt work, only 2 years old and always washed after use.
Couldn't find the old plastic one either and had thrown out a big syringe for stomach feeding ladt week. Do wasn't able to dose them after.

Some sickner

Had the same happen to me a few months ago, when I wanted to give the ewes a mineral drench before putting in the ram.

I got these for my gun, haven't fitted em yet acourse, will leave that til the last minute and then discover they're the wrong size or something

ganmo

the kit i got had a new plunger in it too i think but them little valves are a pain if a bit of dirt gets caught in them.
we have a few of these hanging around too for them one off doses

eire23

ganmo wrote: »

the kit i got had a new plunger in it too i think but them little valves are a pain if a bit of dirt gets caught in them.
we have a few of these hanging around too for them one off doses

I do a bit of work with a fella that has a fair few sheep and all lambs/sheep are dosed with one of them. Torture i tell ya:(

eire23 wrote: »

I do a bit of work with a fella that has a fair few sheep and all lambs/sheep are dosed with one of them. Torture i tell ya:(

Hateful things.

Only recently did we get a dosing gun, used disposable syringes before. Coincidentally a vet visit to our STAP group, the vet used them for dosing too. More accurate she reckoned.

Dosing gun for me.

Connemara Farmer wrote: »

Hateful things.

Only recently did we get a dosing gun, used disposable syringes before. Coincidentally a vet visit to our STAP group, the vet used them for dosing too. More accurate she reckoned.

Dosing gun for me.

I would think she is bang on about accuarcy, but just not practical using them for more than 20 sheep...You would think at this stage they would have invented a better auto dosing gun, similar to the improvement in vaccine guns:(

Cran wrote: »

I would think she is bang on about accuarcy, but just not practical using them for more than 20 sheep...You would think at this stage they would have invented a better auto dosing gun, similar to the improvement in vaccine guns:(

The refilling takes for ever even with a helper. Maybe it's the stuff in the doses they should be looking at to ease the work on the gun? Auto vaccinators are great yokes, wouldn't have anything else now.

eire23

Wouldnt agree about them being more accruate, a dosing gun once it calibrated before use will be every bit as accurate, and far easier to get the ewe to take the dose that with one of them other syringes.

sea12

Cran wrote: »

I would think she is bang on about accuarcy, but just not practical using them for more than 20 sheep...You would think at this stage they would have invented a better auto dosing gun, similar to the improvement in vaccine guns:(

Yes Woulnt like to be doing too many with it. Although if I had one last Saturday I would have used it.