Sheep Photo Thread

arctictree

rangler1 wrote: »

Weaned the Lleyns on Saturday, They're 34.5kg average
also some pics of the vendeens, 3 weeks younger averaging 30kg

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Great sheep and lovely grass

Username John

Johnsey wrote: »

Super stock there rangler

+1

Lovely fat clean looking lambs.

razor8

rangler1 wrote: »

Weaned the Lleyns on Saturday, They're 34.5kg average
also some pics of the vendeens, 3 weeks younger averaging 30kg

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Lovely stock there rangler. Have you any away yet?

Picked out 20 last wkd ave 43 but haven't had chance to get to mart yet, lambs doing really well this year,, will price hold up for another few weeks?

rangler1

razor8 wrote: »

Lovely stock there rangler. Have you any away yet?

Picked out 20 last wkd ave 43 but haven't had chance to get to mart yet, lambs doing really well this year,, will price hold up for another few weeks?

yea 25 last week from the Lleyns . €117 less €3 deductions

razor8

rangler1 wrote: »

yea 25 last week from the Lleyns . €117 less €3 deductions

Happy out, think it was middle of July before any away last year

sea12

rangler1 wrote: »

More Lleyns

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Smashing lambs. How old are they on average. Seem to be in really good condition.

rangler1

sea12 wrote: »

Smashing lambs. How old are they on average. Seem to be in really good condition.

Lleyns were all born in the first two weeks march and the vendeens started the 20 march. most of them were born in a fortnight too,
Really like the Lleyns here, but it has been an unreal year for grass, right from the day they were born,

jt65

rangler1 wrote: »

Lleyns were all born in the first two weeks march and the vendeens started the 20 march. most of them were born in a fortnight too,
Really like the Lleyns here, but it has been an unreal year for grass, right from the day they were born,

are the Lleyns all purebred ? think you bought a ram in Roscrea last year

have some pure Lleyns here & hope to pick up a few more this year


thinking of X with a texel for replacements


as already stated , great healthy looking stock & pasture, think you mentioned somewhere you do very little reseeding

rangler1

jt65 wrote: »

are the Lleyns all purebred ? think you bought a ram in Roscrea last year

have some pure Lleyns here & hope to pick up a few more this year


thinking of X with a texel for replacements


as already stated , great healthy looking stock & pasture, think you mentioned somewhere you do very little reseeding

Over 20yrs since any of it was reseeded, I don't think I need to at present stocking rate and the fact that I don't take out land for silage....... had to take land out for silage this year, couldn't control it, but I set it, don't want to have to feed silage.
Those lambs aren't pure, their mothers would be about 75% texel 25% Lleyn, That's what the ewes with the vendeen lambs are too.
Yea I bought a nice ram in Roscrea

Green farmer

Some of those pics could go on the cover of a teagasc publication , really healthy looking lambs rangler

arctictree

Some of my Lleyn ewes and lambs that I moved to new grazing last night. Field was mowed last week. Lambs seem to be doing well even though the field they were in got away on them.

arctictree

And another:

rangler1

arctictree wrote: »

And another:

Lleyn society should be paying us for the promotion here

eire23

Had the camera out today seeing as the sun was shining:)
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Hogget ram kept back for registering, will know in the next week and a half if he fits the bill
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Some of this years ewe lambs and their mothers, will be weaned this week hopefully.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/DSCF2125_zpsa7cae560.jpg
And lastly a few of this years hoggets

AntrimGlens

Full days work done on saturday with the sheep. Gathered the mountain for the dry ewes and footbathed all ewes and lambs, dosed all lambs with a mineral drench as i noticed a few of the suffolks with scaly ears. Drafted and marked all ewe and wether lambs and pulled off ewe lambs for replacements and clipped them. Weighed a few lambs for the mart today, happy how theyre weighing. Got everything dipped including the dogs. Have finished the handling yard so managed to do everything on my own without as much as a curse out of me, compared to years ago when dipping with the father and it took a full day alone with four of us and fff's and curses all over the shop. Will stick up a few more pics as it was a grand day to be working and had the phone out.

AntrimGlens

more pics

AntrimGlens

replacements for keeping

dogs - this is the wee bitch who lost her mother at five weeks old, shes turning out to be a cracker. And the sire!

Few char X dorset lambs for killing, bit of an experiment and they've worked out well.

arctictree

eire23 wrote: »

Had the camera out today seeing as the sun was shining:)
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/photo1_zpscc2490b0.jpg
Hogget ram kept back for registering, will know in the next week and a half if he fits the bill
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/DSCF2126_zps5fb902ad.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/DSCF2129_zpsca214f4b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/DSCF2131_zps5963578b.jpg
Some of this years ewe lambs and their mothers, will be weaned this week hopefully.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/eire23/DSCF2125_zpsa7cae560.jpg
And lastly a few of this years hoggets

Some lovely lambs there. Llyens - right?

Green farmer

Really nice setup, takes the work out of handing.

sea12

Nice set up Antrim. U can't beat a good handling unit. Save some amount of time

Good looking stock there aswell.

eire23

arctictree wrote: »

Some lovely lambs there. Llyens - right?

Yep lleyns alright artictree

greysides

Working with sheep dogs this weather don't let them over-heat!

rangler1

Some Vendeens cross lambs in the sun.
Premier ram sale next Wednesday 23rd in Roscommon

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eire23

rangler1 wrote: »

Some Vendeens cross lambs in the sun.
Premier ram sale next Wednesday 23rd in Roscommon

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Discounts for boards members rangler?!

rangler1

eire23 wrote: »

Discounts for boards members rangler?!

yea riiiight!!!::rolleyes:

eire23

Says you its hard enough to make money on them!

Lambs and grass are a credit to ye in fairness.

Kevin the sheep

Lovely lambs rangler there in great nick

sea12

Kevin the sheep wrote: »

Lovely lambs rangler there in great nick

Yea really nice uniform flock of lambs. Do you hide all the bad ones when u take out the camera.

Only messing

rangler1

sea12 wrote: »

Yea really nice uniform flock of lambs. Do you hide all the bad ones when u take out the camera.

Only messing

Thanks
We're in high molybdenum area area, so would always be conscious of copper deficiency, but every blood test I did proved negative and as you know have been concerned about lamb thrive here.
but against the advise, I gave them copper boluses at 10 weeks with their usual cobalt etc and I don't think I've ever had as good looking lambs. their wool and condition is unreal, so hopefully I've cracked the lamb thrive one.
Cattle always suffered from copper deficiency on the farm here

ganmo

I would be very hesitant about giving copper boluses to sheep, if things started to go wrong you'd have to keep em dosed with zinc till the boluses were gone. We've dosed with bluestone here(usually mixed with cobalt).
And the Uniblock sheep mineral block has a bit of copper in them too