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    #8222
    Young95
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Young95


    White Clover wrote: »
    Ya they're definitely lacking something. I'll have them in this week and I'll give a mineral drench too.

    What age are the lambs ? You would think they’d get all mineral from sucking the ewes ?


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    #8223
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Young95 wrote: »
    What age are the lambs ? You would think they’d get all mineral from sucking the ewes ?

    Mid March onwards. We'd be on heavy ground that is high in molybdenum. Alot of minerals locked up or lacking. We'd go through minerals for fun to keep them right.


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    #8224
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,064 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    White Clover wrote: »
    Mid March onwards. We'd be on heavy ground that is high in molybdenum. Alot of minerals locked up or lacking. We'd go through minerals for fun to keep them right.

    Lambs are always eating the ditches here, I pass no re,arks on them, they just like something different. We'd have them well bolused here for minerals


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    #8225
    k mac
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    farawaygrass wrote: »
    Ya notice them picking white thorn a good bit. Dosed them with cobalt last weekend. Bout a month ago they were mad at putting their heads through sheep wire and picking at old grass

    Had i bugger of a lamb at the same here and he kept getting his head stuck then in the sheep wire.. thankfully seems to have stopped now, might be getting a bit of sense


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    #8226
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Western Pomise wrote: »
    Anyone watch any online sheep marts lately?.....or buy or sell stock?

    Are ewes with lambs at foot as dear as ever?
    What kind of trade are plain hoggetts for keeping for the Summer?

    Hi all.
    just bumping this.....has anyone seen ewes with lambs at foot or feeder hoggetts sold in last week or two online?.....heard from one man that ewes with lambs at foot are well back in price but he had only heard it second hand from someone who works in a Mart.

    The lack of grass on a lot of farms is probably contributing to the drop in prices.People afraid to buy stock .

    Thanks for any replies to anyone who has seen Hoggetts or ewes with lambs sold online lately.


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    #8227
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Western Pomise wrote: »
    Hi all.
    just bumping this.....has anyone seen ewes with lambs at foot or feeder hoggetts sold in last week or two online?.....heard from one man that ewes with lambs at foot are well back in price but he had only heard it second hand from someone who works in a Mart.

    The lack of grass on a lot of farms is probably contributing to the drop in prices.People afraid to buy stock .

    Thanks for any replies to anyone who has seen Hoggetts or ewes with lambs sold online lately.

    see ewe and single at around 200/250 on donedeal.


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    #8228
    Western Pomise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Western Pomise


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    see ewe and single at around 200/250 on donedeal.


    Thanks....tbh I don't pass much heed of prices up on donedeal, especially if stock are 'dear' as you will have fellas looking for London for middling stock as they have heard sheep are a good trade!:)

    Mart prices reflect the reality on the ground much more accurately imo.


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    #8229
    Tileman
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    Western Pomise wrote: »
    Thanks....tbh I don't pass much heed of prices up on donedeal, especially if stock are 'dear' as you will have fellas looking for London for middling stock as they have heard sheep are a good trade!:)

    Mart prices reflect the reality on the ground much more accurately imo.

    All the sheep Mary’s are online. Just check in for 20 mins into a few as there are only a few lots in most Marts. At least I will see the quality


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    #8230
    Kevhog1988
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    Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?


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    #8231
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?

    Is she very fat?


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    #8232
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    White Clover wrote: »
    Is she very fat?

    Yep shed be the heaviest ewe we have


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    #8233
    wrangler
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Have a ewe that doesnt seem to be letting down milk since lambing this morning. Big bag on her. Gave the lambs colostrum and going to top up with a bottle later. Do ye give them a shot of oxytocin straight away or leave them 24 hrs to see if they come into milk first?

    Oxytocin only works within hours of birth, ..... if it's going to work.


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    #8234
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Yep shed be the heaviest ewe we have

    Probably fatty liver affecting her. I'd give 100ml/day of Ketovit/chanatol for a week to clear out the liver. They function better then.


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    #8235
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    wrangler wrote: »
    Oxytocin only works within hours of birth, ..... if it's going to work.

    seem sot be starting to let some down now but topped lambs up anyway.


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    #8236
    OneMan37
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    Have 15 Hoggs scanned to lamb last few weeks but nothing. They were moved with difficulty and pushed onto a trailer a month or more ago. Must have pitched lambs ?


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    #8237
    Kevhog1988
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    OneMan37 wrote: »
    Have 15 Hoggs scanned to lamb last few weeks but nothing. They were moved with difficulty and pushed onto a trailer a month or more ago. Must have pitched lambs ?

    Theyd hardly all lose them?


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    #8238
    Young95
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Young95


    Folks I’m tagging my replacement hoggots this weekend with the eid tag set of the button tag and one normal tag . This year I’m also putting a coloured management disc in one of there ears with the tag . Just wondering which tag those the management discs suit best ? The button tag or the normal big visual tag ?


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    #8239
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    Young95 wrote: »
    Folks I’m tagging my replacement hoggots this weekend with the eid tag set of the button tag and one normal tag . This year I’m also putting a coloured management disc in one of there ears with the tag . Just wondering which tag those the management discs suit best ? The button tag or the normal big visual tag ?

    One tip I’ll give you Is put a coloured management disc on both tags. Reason being Is if a sheep loses a tag then 50/50 chance the management tag will be gone too.
    I use the Cormac management discs with their tags too and they fit either tag. Imagine it’d be the same across the board.


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    #8240
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    One tip I’ll give you Is put a coloured management disc on both tags. Reason being Is if a sheep loses a tag then 50/50 chance the management tag will be gone too.
    I use the Cormac management discs with their tags too and they fit either tag. Imagine it’d be the same across the board.

    What way do you work the discs? I just use one colour for twin born ewe lambs and another colour for triplet born ewe lambs.


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    #8241
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    White Clover wrote: »
    What way do you work the discs? I just use one colour for twin born ewe lambs and another colour for triplet born ewe lambs.

    Do you tag them at birth? I don’t tag till autumn time, and just put two of the same colour in each ear


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    #8242
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    Do you tag them at birth? I don’t tag till autumn time, and just put two of the same colour in each ear

    I just use a small management tag at a day old and tag permanently in the autumn.


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    #8243
    farawaygrass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    White Clover wrote: »
    I just use a small management tag at a day old and tag permanently in the autumn.

    Do the lambs ever lose them management tags?


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    #8244
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    farawaygrass wrote: »
    Do the lambs ever lose them management tags?

    Rarely to be honest. If they lose one by the first dose, they still have their aerosol number on their side so I just retag then.


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    #8245
    OneMan37
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Theyd hardly all lose them?


    I think 2/3 out of the group of 16 lambed about 5 weeks ago and nothing since.


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    #8246
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    OneMan37 wrote: »
    I think 2/3 out of the group of 16 lambed about 5 weeks ago and nothing since.

    Could be on the next cycle. I think its every 17 days??


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    #8247
    OneMan37
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭OneMan37


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Could be on the next cycle. I think its every 17 days??

    Highly doubt it, as I’ve another group that weren’t stressed all lambing in last few weeks. They were all running with the same ram, in one field. I separated them later.


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    #8248
    razor8
    Registered Users Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭razor8


    OneMan37 wrote: »
    Highly doubt it, as I’ve another group that weren’t stressed all lambing in last few weeks. They were all running with the same ram, in one field. I separated them later.

    Blood tests will probably tell you they aborted


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    #8249
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Any tips on dealing with an outbreak of orf in pet lambs inside? Never before had orf here, inside or outside.


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    #8250
    Sami23
    Registered Users Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭Sami23


    White Clover wrote: »
    Any tips on dealing with an outbreak of orf in pet lambs inside? Never before had orf here, inside or outside.

    Tubby lick buckets


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    #8251
    joe35
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭joe35


    Anyone know when would be the best time to put a dog in pup. TIA


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