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  • #842
    sea12
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    Great set up rangler. Well done. It looks great. U must be fair Bround off lambing at this stage.


  • #843
    rangler1
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    sea12 wrote: »
    Great set up rangler. Well done. It looks great. U must be fair Bround off lambing at this stage.

    Thanks, had the annual caesarean in the hoggets this evening, everything alive and well so that's the main thing.
    Yea, I'll be glad when it's over, 28th of april would be when the last one's due


  • #844
    Username John
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    and I envy you, I would've given anything to get a different career, tried many times, never had the brains....... aren't I always saying to get away from farming
    Lambs were born the first two weeks of march.

    The grass is always greener I guess too rangler...
    Don't be thinking tho that I have much brains then, I'd be more the lucky than good sort... ;)


  • #845
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    rangler1 wrote: »
    and I envy you, I would've given anything to get a different career, tried many times, never had the brains....... aren't I always saying to get away from farming



    The grass ain't always greener on the other side. ;)


  • #846
    Green farmer
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    Username John wrote: »

    Don't be thinking tho that I have much brains then, I'd be more the lucky than good sort... ;)

    I'd take lucky over brains any day


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  • #847
    Username John
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    Moving the ewes to new ground yesterday... reseeded the field last year, and has good grass, but tis some job running up and down that hill after small lambs :(
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    Obviously - I had to enlist help, and people were more than willing to help :):D
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    Lambs this morning.
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  • #848
    Green farmer
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    Spotted this ewe lamb in field today. Pity the rest of my lambs couldnt be as good quality as her. Charlaois cross so won't be kept for breeding.


  • #849
    Connemara Farmer
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    I like the water trough lol


  • #850
    arctictree
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Spotted this ewe lamb in field today. Pity the rest of my lambs couldnt be as good quality as her. Charlaois cross so won't be kept for breeding.

    Nice. I've a single ewe lamb who was the first born in the batch this year to an old milky ewe who normally has twins. She's nearly twice the size as the rest of them!


  • #851
    Green farmer
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    Connemara Farmer wrote: »
    I like the water trough lol

    :rolleyes: mr.turtle is helping me out.

    Ya Artic, amazing the difference between a single lamb vs twin lambs. I couldn't get over the length of her back. I've had plenty of short lambs here over the years, that are hard to get up to weight. She's out of that black ewe, coming up to 4 weeks old


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  • #852
    orm0nd
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    Username John wrote: »
    Moving the ewes to new ground yesterday... reseeded the field last year, and has good grass, but tis some job running up and down that hill after small lambs :(
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    Obviously - I had to enlist help, and people were more than willing to help :):D
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    Lambs this morning.
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    nice firm lambs John, seem to be thriving well


    and the young helper isn't doing too bad either :D


  • #853
    Cran
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    :rolleyes: mr.turtle is helping me out.

    Ya Artic, amazing the difference between a single lamb vs twin lambs. I couldn't get over the length of her back. I've had plenty of short lambs here over the years, that are hard to get up to weight. She's out of that black ewe, coming up to 4 weeks old

    Length is where the weight is. Was weighing pedigrees today, currently have two stand out ram lambs. One looks a better lamb but shorter, guy with me said he s some lamb asked him heaver or lighter than other fella? He said obvious heaver, came in 6 kilos lighter


  • #854
    ganmo
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    Will the welfare ppl be onto me, I've a lamb with a black eye ;)

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  • #855
    tom_k
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    Last of the ewes lambed yesterday. Unusual ewe with a pair of ewe lambs :)

    Enjoying the sunshine this afternoon.

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  • #856
    Kovu
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    Three pets at my Uncles place :D They run into the house every time the door is opened and enjoy chasing the poor dog.

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  • #857
    Melodeon
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    A post over in the current YLYL thread you guys might like:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=95229580&postcount=7559


  • #858
    4512
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    rangler1 wrote: »
    Some pics from this year, still 40 hoggets to lamb.
    Here's some of the lambed hoggets
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    Adult ewes with their Lleyn lambs.
    busy paddock with 180 ewes and about 340 lambs on 10 acre
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    Not often yall see lleyns as well bred as them!


  • #859
    AntrimGlens
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    Don't think they were too keen on being moved from the low ground this morning. That's put growth back another few days. 😡


  • #860
    ganmo
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    Rocks are good for something


  • #861
    Lano Lynn
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4WQ8hEIi3g


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  • #862
    Green farmer
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    Saw this pair in the field last night. A graduate of the fostering gate about a month ago. She was right stubborn. I marked them clearly so I'd be able to monitor them. Good to know their still together.


  • #863
    Username John
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    Green farmer wrote: »
    Saw this pair in the field last night. A graduate of the fostering gate about a month ago. She was right stubborn. I marked them clearly so I'd be able to monitor them. Good to know their still together.

    Nice green grass... getting scarce down here :(


  • #864
    Green farmer
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    Thanks, the picture is a bit deceiving. Grass is a bit scarce here as well john. Hopefully better weather forecast next though .


  • #865
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    new ride on lawnmower
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057212167&page=527

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  • #866
    Connemara Farmer
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    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    new ride on lawnmower
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057212167&page=527

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    In some more remote areas that may be classed as an RV.


  • #867
    eire23
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    Hogget ram that I kept on for breeding doing a bit of posing in yesterday evenings sun:)


  • #868
    sea12
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    eire23 wrote: »
    Hogget ram that I kept on for breeding doing a bit of posing in yesterday evenings sun:)

    Great length to him


  • #869
    Bonedigger
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    I took this shot on the Curragh last year.
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  • #870
    IH784man
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    Bonedigger wrote: »
    I took this shot on the Curragh last year.
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    You should enter that in the competition


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  • #871
    Bonedigger
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    IH784man wrote: »
    You should enter that in the competition

    I didn't realise there was one.
    I deleted this photo from one of the threads in the Photography Forum because it seems it wasn't being appreciated - not highbrow or arty-farty enough for that lot!:D


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