Sheep Photo Thread

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New ram bought at the Cheviot Premier Show and Sale on Saturday

serfspup

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hope this lad will breed lenght and a bit of height into his lambs out of lleyn ewes:)

DJ98

serfspup wrote: »

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hope this lad will breed lenght and a bit of height into his lambs out of lleyn ewes:)

Whats the cheviot lambs like out of a lleyn ewe?

serfspup

DJ98 wrote: »

Whats the cheviot lambs like out of a lleyn ewe?

i like them so far,definitely grow bigger .the lleyns have good tight wool and it has come through in the lambs.have not lambed cheviot x lleyn ewes yet.have a wicklow cheviot out with the smallest ewes and a north country type with the bigger ewes.the hoggets are out of northie rams and I let a wicklow out with them.

razor8

How do they scan?

serfspup

razor8 wrote: »

How do they scan?

havent scanned chxlleyn yet.
this year is the first hoggets and not all of them are chx.

I was breeding the lleyns to increase prolificacy but they havent
(not all their fault I haven t been looking after my grass very well so they have not been flushed well enough this last few years :mad: my bad)

charolais0153

Ewes and lambs doing well so far

razor8

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ewes and lambs doing well so far

Nice grass underneath them too

charolais0153

razor8 wrote: »

Nice grass underneath them too

Reseeded from last autumn. Was grazed bare in November, came back nicely

OneMan37

Some of the 25 Belclare x ewes I recently bought. A few are PB Belclare to. , all 2,3 and 4 year olds in lamb to Belclare Ram.

OneMan37

DJ98 wrote: »

Whats the cheviot lambs like out of a lleyn ewe?

My experience was they are slow to finish. But make nice ewes.

charolais0153

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ewes and lambs doing well so far

I jinxed these 3 ewes.one of them went on her back, one had a lamb that got pneumonia and the other stopped letting a lamb suck. You coupdnt make it up

wrangler

Our 'pet' ewe that had four this year, she's had 15 lambs in 5 lambings since she was born in 2013. Her line has very few females, she herself has only had 2 ewe lambs in the 15 lambs and they too are very prolific

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Base price

wrangler wrote: »

Our 'pet' ewe that had four this year, she's had 15 lambs in 5 lambings since she was born in 2013. Her line has very few females, she herself has only had 2 ewe lambs in the 15 lambs and they too are very prolific

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I like her name
As an aside, I was driving through Ballinlough Co. Meath on Friday and I was in bad form due to a fecker bouncing a cheque on us. I saw two lambs curled up fast asleep on their mothers back and the sight of them immediately lifted my spirits

wrangler

Base price wrote: »

I like her name
As an aside, I was driving through Ballinlough Co. Meath on Friday and I was in bad form due to a fecker bouncing a cheque on us. I saw two lambs curled up fast asleep on their mothers back and the sight of them immediately lifted my spirits

Lambing to me always signifies that the winter is nearly over.....they're a kinda sign of hope

mcgiggles

Base price wrote:

I like her name As an aside, I was driving through Ballinlough Co. Meath on Friday and I was in bad form due to a fecker bouncing a cheque on us. I saw two lambs curled up fast asleep on their mothers back and the sight of them immediately lifted my spirits

wrangler wrote:

Lambing to me always signifies that the winter is nearly over.....they're a kinda sign of hope

Its good for the soul seeing lambs start to jump and lep around.. I love it!

ganmo

mcgiggles wrote: »

Its good for the soul seeing lambs start to jump and lep around.. I love it!

And sunbathing

serfspup

serfspup wrote: »

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hope this lad will breed lenght and a bit of height into his lambs out of lleyn ewes:)

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happy so far

Green farmer

Weather starting to look up here

AntrimGlens

Long time since there's been blackie lambs born here, but they made lambing a lot simpler when lambing out and no assistance.

DJ98

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Long time since there's been blackie lambs born here, but they made lambing a lot simpler when lambing out and no assistance.

Are they purebred?

AntrimGlens

DJ98 wrote: »

Are they purebred?

Nope, far from it. Bought fifty of them in the mart one night as ewe lambs averaging £51. was planning on selling them on as hoggs, but after a bit of good treatment they started to look like a better investment to keep for the mountain, instead of me spending time spaying the bracken with azulox. Bought myself a lanark ram for £350 and out of the 47 put to the ram, there's 9 left to lamb and i have 66 lambs turned out.

As someone said in an earlier post, i might not have a £80 prime lamb to sell, but counting up my time and labour etc. they're looking like a better return on investment than the mules.

Experience is a wonderful thing. My father kept horny ewes all his life and when i took over the sheep the first thing i did was get rid of the scotch ewes and buy in mules for rearing prime lamb. Twenty years later and I'm back to doing his way of things!!

razor8

What will you do with the ewe lambs?

AntrimGlens

Is your man still interested??:D
Probably pick out a pen of replacements and sell on the others.

sea12

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Is your man still interested??:D
Probably pick out a pen of replacements and sell on the others.

Are u still keeping the dry ewe lambs aswell?

AntrimGlens

sea12 wrote: »

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Is your man still interested??:D
Probably pick out a pen of replacements and sell on the others.

Are u still keeping the dry ewe lambs aswell?

Aye have couple hundred mules that will be sold as breeders in the autumn. Although there are a few plainer faced ones that are in good condition if I was to weigh them. They could be 24/25kg and would probably make £130 now killed, whereas keeping them to September they might only make £145 or less. Make my mind up time. The only reason they’re not killed yet is because I’m not stuck for grass yet, but getting close to it.

razor8

AntrimGlens wrote: »

Is your man still interested??:D
Probably pick out a pen of replacements and sell on the others.

He didn’t buy any!

My horned ewes are getting very Agey so could do with a few myself this year

Hard Knocks

Would the ewe lambs be suitable for breeding the first year or would you have to wait till their hoggets?

AntrimGlens

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Would the ewe lambs be suitable for breeding the first year or would you have to wait till their hoggets?

I'd say some of them would tip, but I'll let them grow on out. Certainly a lot more of the mule ewe lambs would cycle and hold to the ram and some men prefer to buy them as sucked hoggets.
There was a man sold about fifteen pens of mule hoggets one night in the mart last year, he had bought 400 as ewe lambs and put the ram to them. About 350 of them reared a lamb and he was getting £145-£130 for them as sucked hoggets. Now they were money makers, but he's from across the country and they would have been well done too in terms of grass and meal.

ganmo

Moved some ewes and lambs this eve, it went from the bedlam of ewes callin for lambs and visa versa to silent grazing in the space of 10 seconds. Don’t think I’ve seen such young lambs so hungry for grass

wrangler

Bit crowded, eh
Two day paddocks

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Green farmer

wrangler wrote: »

Bit crowded, eh
Two day paddocks

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They look ok, as long as you have about 11 of them :-)

wrangler

Green farmer wrote: »

They look ok, as long as you have about 11 of them :-)

yea, 17 days since they were on that paddock before, so going grand at the moment

charolais0153

wrangler wrote: »

yea, 17 days since they were on that paddock before, so going grand at the moment

What would be max number of ewes and lambs you could put in a 2 acre field?

wrangler

charolais0153 wrote: »

What would be max number of ewes and lambs you could put in a 2 acre field?

there's about 1.2 acres in that paddock....it should do the two days, 80 ewes and 130 lambs

roosky

Leitrim and the flock looking very photogenic on Saturday!

AntrimGlens

I think they were due a move this morning, they had the far side ate bare..
Hopefully regrowth speeds up a bit, has been slow to come back to date.

sea12

AntrimGlens wrote: »

I think they were due a move this morning, they had the far side ate bare..
Hopefully regrowth speeds up a bit, has been slow to come back to date.

I'm the opposite. It's gone too strong in a couple of days

wrangler

Some pics from Scotsheep farm tour, 1400 ewes, 200 sucklers on 1000 acres
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Bleating Lamb

wrangler wrote: »

Some pics from Scotsheep farm tour, 1400 ewes, 200 sucklers on 1000 acres
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No grass going to loss there!....the cows would want good teeth.

wrangler

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

No grass going to loss there!....the cows would want good teeth.

Long winters there, stock looked great though.
They run the stock in bunches of circa 100 ewes and 15 - 20 cows, mostly set stocked,

Stitch n a lot of grasseed too, about every 5 =7 years

razor8

Very clean backends too. Must be good land

Bullocks

wrangler wrote: »

Some pics from Scotsheep farm tour, 1400 ewes, 200 sucklers on 1000 acres
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Do they have much labour on the farm ?

wrangler

Bullocks wrote: »

Do they have much labour on the farm ?

They have one fulltime worker employed plus a student.

Bullocks

wrangler wrote: »

They have one fulltime worker employed plus a student.

Did they give much info on the beef side of the operation or was it just concentrated on the sheep ?
Looks like a well planned setup , the figures for the farm income would've been interesting

wrangler

Bullocks wrote: »

Did they give much info on the beef side of the operation or was it just concentrated on the sheep ?
Looks like a well planned setup , the figures for the farm income would've been interesting

Nothing about the cattle, our own Grassland Association had a way better and more informative day on John Larges' last week
I thought they might have the handouts up on the website and only found a youtube video about the farm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCVurtL-B3w

More help on the farm than they claimed on the day.
They also said they have up to seventeen altogether for the lambing

Bleating Lamb

Hi all,is there much into uploading a picture onto Boards?......have never done it.Have an iPhone 5s.

charolais0153

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Hi all,is there much into uploading a picture onto Boards?......have never done it.Have an iPhone 5s.

Go to bottom of page. Press 'Full site'. Go to tje thread. Press reply. Manage attachments. Add attachments and then you pick the picture you want yo show. If picture is too big you may have to resize it. Have to download an app to do that

charolais0153

A few for tomorrow

Hard Knocks

charolais0153 wrote: »

A few for tomorrow

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