Sheep Photo Thread

Green farmer

I'll know tomorrow, but 1 bale lasts two days, feeding 110 ewes I hope. They got that one yesterday afternoon. I spent the extra money on plastic ( was nearly choking at the cost of it )and got it double wrapped but really does make a difference. No mould what so ever.

gazahayes

Foundations poured for the sheep tunnel

Username John

gazahayes wrote: »

Foundations poured for the sheep tunnel

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Connemara Farmer

Username John wrote: »

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They must've got a lot of snow over night

eire23

This fella is shaping up nicely, early days yet though!:rolleyes:

Green farmer

Getting some stores used to silage.

orm0nd

nearly ready for housing just a bit of tidying up on the other side

ganmo

orm0nd wrote: »

nearly ready for housing just a bit of tidying up on the other side

Shiney!

razor8

orm0nd wrote: »

nearly ready for housing just a bit of tidying up on the other side

Ya didn't spare anything there

Is it slatted, can't really tell from photo

eire23

orm0nd wrote: »

nearly ready for housing just a bit of tidying up on the other side

Fine setup ormond, was it of cormac ye bought the head rails, Id imagine they will be a good job to stop them pulling in silage?

orm0nd

razor8 wrote: »

Ya didn't spare anything there

Is it slatted, can't really tell from photo

not slatted, majority january lambing here, the plan is when ewes and lambs are let out to pull out the barriers and the use the pens for calving and housing a few calves , presently making up gates and brackets to allow quick change over

other side of the shed joins onto existing shed and will do for any stragglers and the ewe lambs

eire23 wrote: »

Fine setup ormond, was it of cormac ye bought the head rails, Id imagine they will be a good job to stop them pulling in silage?

not cormac,

my son saw them in the uk a couple of years ago and the host farmer was full of praise for them

not much into making them if you have the time,

gazahayes

Username John wrote: »

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Figured out how to work it now

AntrimGlens

Whats the dimensions gazahayes?

gazahayes

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Whats the dimensions gazahayes?

77 foot by 33 foot thinking of putting in 3 foot walls around it to give it an extra bit of height.

Green farmer

Are you going block on flat or cavity block walls ?

Edit, just after seeing metal sticking up out of concrete, so are you going to shutter it ?

Username John

gazahayes wrote: »

Figured out how to work it now

Jesus, theres a lot of houses close to you Gazza.

rangler1

You're putting it up on walls are you gazza? what height, had a farmer here today looking at my tunnel, he thought 3ft would be better than my 2ft

Cattlepen

orm0nd wrote: »

nearly ready for housing just a bit of tidying up on the other side

Hi there. Do you mind me asking where you bought the barriers. They look a good job

Green farmer

In fairness, your tunnel is a fine job rangler.

orm0nd

Cattlepen wrote: »

Hi there. Do you mind me asking where you bought the barriers. They look a good job

pm sent

rangler1

gazahayes wrote: »

77 foot by 33 foot thinking of putting in 3 foot walls around it to give it an extra bit of height.

You won't be sorry to have the walls to push against when you're cleaning out,
What height will it be

gazahayes

rangler1 wrote: »

You won't be sorry to have the walls to push against when you're cleaning out,
What height will it be

Just measured it there will be 5' 6" above the wall to the start of the curve. Have shutters here that the father used to hire out back in the 80's 18" and 2' was gonna use both and make the walls 42" high. It'll give it more scope further down the line.

gazahayes

Username John wrote: »

Jesus, theres a lot of houses close to you Gazza.

One on the left is my own, one on the right is the sisters and the neighbours across the road in the middle only talked to them the first time in a couple of months at my wedding Saturday! Just keep passing on the road.

gazahayes

Green farmer wrote: »

Are you going block on flat or cavity block walls ?

Edit, just after seeing metal sticking up out of concrete, so are you going to shutter it ?

Have our own shutters just need new snap ties and keys and wedges

rangler1

gazahayes wrote: »

Just measured it there will be 5' 6" above the wall to the start of the curve. Have shutters here that the father used to hire out back in the 80's 18" and 2' was gonna use both and make the walls 42" high. It'll give it more scope further down the line.

What floor are you putting in it,

gazahayes

rangler1 wrote: »

What floor are you putting in it,

Was thinking of leaving it clay for now might use it for a bit of veg and that out of season to try and get as much use out of it

rangler1

gazahayes wrote: »

Was thinking of leaving it clay for now might use it for a bit of veg and that out of season to try and get as much use out of it

Was actually reading lately that clay works very well because it gets so dry in a tunnel.....broken stone doesn't work under sheep, I learnt that the hard way in another shed I put up a few years ago, dug it out and put concrete in about five years after

Username John

rangler1 wrote: »

Was actually reading lately that clay works very well because it gets so dry in a tunnel.....broken stone doesn't work under sheep, I learnt that the hard way in another shed I put up a few years ago, dug it out and put concrete in about five years after

I have some stone floor in some of the shed, and I find it ok. Why do you say you found out the hard way?

gazahayes

rangler1 wrote: »

Was actually reading lately that clay works very well because it gets so dry in a tunnel.....broken stone doesn't work under sheep, I learnt that the hard way in another shed I put up a few years ago, dug it out and put concrete in about five years after

That's good to hear was wondering if anyone has ever used peat as a bedding under sheep. Readily available around here and cattle are very clean and content on it.

rangler1

Username John wrote: »

I have some stone floor in some of the shed, and I find it ok. Why do you say you found out the hard way?

Stones and ****e seemed to get mixed up....turned into a right mess

Green farmer

The aul concrete base's are fair clean alright. Nice to be able to scrape it perfectly clean and know what your standing on.

Username John

rangler1 wrote: »

Stones and ****e seemed to get mixed up....turned into a right mess

I find the hardcore all right, but I try to put down a good bed of straw when they go in on em first.

greysides

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Whats the dimensions gazahayes?

About 46" X 26".

Try Pixresizer. Dead easy to use.

gazahayes

greysides wrote: »

About 46" X 26".

Try Pixresizer. Dead easy to use.

Camera is too good on the phone have image resizer just keep forgetting to use it

Connemara Farmer

Stock cover finished yesterday. Given it rained most of the day, I was surprised how tight we managed to get the cover.

Green farmer

Coming along Con. Your girls won't know their comforts next spring

Connemara Farmer

Green farmer wrote: »

Coming along Con. Your girls won't know their comforts next spring

Hopefully! At least now any work I am doing is progress Netting and guttering next, some more concreting then.

Green farmer

Just when you think they couldn't find anything else to get stuck in

rangler1

Start of another year
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sea12

rangler1 wrote: »

Start of another year
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I presume the ram got to her early rangler. Your hardly starting lambing already.
Good hardy looking lambs by the way

rangler1

sea12 wrote: »

I presume the ram got to her early rangler. Your hardly starting lambing already.
Good hardy looking lambs by the way

Thanks
No, they're purebreds, I like to lamb them in dec to have the breeding rams well grown for sale, don't usually lamb these till Christmas but was doing AI and could only book the Ai vet on the 15th july......it'll be a long winter after

sea12

rangler1 wrote: »

Thanks
No, they're purebreds, I like to lamb them in dec to have the breeding rams well grown for sale, don't usually lamb these till Christmas but was doing AI and could only book the Ai vet on the 15th july......it'll be a long winter after

Jeez you will have a long all season of lambing so. Hope they go well for u. What's the hold rate on Ai rangler

rangler1

sea12 wrote: »

Jeez you will have a long all season of lambing so. Hope they go well for u. What's the hold rate on Ai rangler

Usually got 70%, but this time was only 50% , The AI vet cost €600 for 30 ewes so you'd like it better than that, it was all frozen semen from different rams of ours from years ago. had it stored and wanted to use it up.
Wouldn't like to be paying for the semen as well at those conception rates,
We'll just have the repeats of these and then nothing lambing till march

Username John

Few before and after pics of a bit of reclaiming / reseeding we did over the summer.










Bit more water coming out of it than I'd like, I might have to do another bit of drainage at the very bottom I'd say, but we'll see... Tis growing some bit of grass now anyways...
Small bit higher / steeper than I thought as well :rolleyes:

sea12

Username John wrote: »

Few before and after pics of a bit of reclaiming / reseeding we did over the summer.










Bit more water coming out of it than I'd like, I might have to do another bit of drainage at the very bottom I'd say, but we'll see... Tis growing some bit of grass now anyways...
Small bit higher / steeper than I thought as well :rolleyes:

Great work and lovely to see john. Was that bracken in the field in the first picture.

Green farmer

You'd put a fine house with lovely views there John.

Username John

sea12 wrote: »

Great work and lovely to see john. Was that bracken in the field in the first picture.

Thanks Sea.
Yeah, 'twas mostly all ferns and briars. It used to be burned and that would control it some bit but we stopped burning it and the ferns took over altogether.

Username John

Green farmer wrote: »

You'd put a fine house with lovely views there John.

Too steep for that. Would you believe I put a house on what I thought was a level place, and it still cost me a fortune to actually level it.

razor8

Username John wrote: »

Thanks Sea.
Yeah, 'twas mostly all ferns and briars. It used to be burned and that would control it some bit but we stopped burning it and the ferns took over altogether.

Nice job, The sheep will keep the ferns and briars back, was it cattle on it before?

Username John

razor8 wrote: »

Nice job, The sheep will keep the ferns and briars back, was it cattle on it before?

Nah, there wasn't cattle on it in a long while. But the field didn't have fencing to keep the sheep in it, so they tended not to eat it much, and then the scrub kinda crept in a bit every year....