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Sheep Photo Thread

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  • #152
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭razor8


    Pic for cran!

    First of the year for me, ped char, only the one lamb tho was 7.61kg and a ewe lamb


  • #153
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    don't know where else to post this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrL2SgbaHY


  • #154
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    don't know where else to post this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrL2SgbaHY

    What do they use to cutoff the tails? :confused:


  • #155
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭eire23


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    don't know where else to post this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrL2SgbaHY

    Some pile of tails, my dog does go around the field looking for tails at lambing time, if she was there she would get some feed:D


  • #156
    dave747
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭dave747


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    don't know where else to post this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbrL2SgbaHY


    Ha some set up :)


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  • #157
    sea12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭sea12


    Wow some set up.
    Is it a gas burner they use to burn the tales?


  • #158
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    yep gas burner
    heres another
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFezeYJR0so


  • #159
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    yep gas burner
    heres another
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFezeYJR0so

    Maybe my EU subsidised standards are too high but I reckon they're being fairly rough on them lambs.


  • #160
    DK man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭DK man


    image.jpg
    A triplet that didn't bond with the mother - she looked after two and didn't want a third...


  • #161
    Conmaicne Mara
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    DK man wrote: »
    image.jpg
    A triplet that didn't bond with the mother - she looked after two and didn't want a third...

    Seems to have fallen on it's feet there and found a Mammy :D


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  • #162
    Cran
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    razor8 wrote: »
    Pic for cran!

    First of the year for me, ped char, only the one lamb tho was 7.61kg and a ewe lamb

    Smasher of a lamb, up quick I can see before fully licked like a Charollais should be ;) What she by?

    Anyone having many rams vs ewe lambs? I lambed down 15 ewes early (less than I hoped) with 24 lambs only 7 ewe lambs, not complaining just curious.....


  • #163
    rancher
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    Ewe lambs on bedded slats
    2014-02-02 18.05.27.jpg
    Pedigree pets on ad lib cold milk, weaning today
    2014-02-02 15.25.13.jpg


  • #164
    gazahayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭gazahayes


    Cran wrote: »
    Anyone having many rams vs ewe lambs? I lambed down 15 ewes early (less than I hoped) with 24 lambs only 7 ewe lambs, not complaining just curious.....

    I have a texel ram and out of 14 lambs there was only 2 ewes


  • #165
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    gazahayes wrote: »
    I have a texel ram and out of 14 lambs there was only 2 ewes

    60% ewe lambs here


  • #166
    mikefoxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 460 ✭✭mikefoxo


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    yep gas burner
    heres another
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFezeYJR0so

    And they do be telling you not to stress an animal:eek:


  • #167
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭razor8


    Cran wrote: »
    Smasher of a lamb, up quick I can see before fully licked like a Charollais should be ;) What

    They were with a ballyhibben ram, must get the cert number. He was skipping about yesterday evening !


  • #168
    dave747
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    001.jpg

    Think i might have to move the troughs this evening :)


  • #169
    Username John
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    rancher wrote: »
    Ewe lambs on bedded slats
    2014-02-02 18.05.27.jpg
    Pedigree pets on ad lib cold milk, weaning today
    2014-02-02 15.25.13.jpg

    Nice looking lambs rancher, especially for pets. How come they are pets?

    What will you do with those pedigree lambs rancher? As they are pets, they aren't destined for breeding I assume?


  • #170
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Username John wrote: »
    Nice looking lambs rancher, especially for pets. How come they are pets?

    What will you do with those pedigree lambs rancher? As they are pets, they aren't destined for breeding I assume?

    If they make the grade they are, only a few ever do. funny scan this year, either singles or threes and fours ,couldn't get adoptions to work, a few ewes lambing with only one teat and three lambs.....in other words a bit more hassle than usual. I wouldn't think being reared as a pet makes any difference to a terminal ram. there is a few nice ones in that bunch though.


  • #171
    Wooly Admirer
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Wooly Admirer


    rancher wrote: »
    Ewe lambs on bedded slats
    2014-02-02 18.05.27.jpg
    Pedigree pets on ad lib cold milk, weaning today
    2014-02-02 15.25.13.jpg

    What tag are you using in the lambs Rancher. Is it an EID? Looks a tidy one!


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  • #172
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Wooly Admirer wrote: »
    What tag are you using in the lambs Rancher. Is it an EID? Looks a tidy one!

    Not eid , just an ordinary u tag from mullinahone, yea very tidy, we tag all our lambs at birth and would lose very few


  • #173
    Wooly Admirer
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭Wooly Admirer


    rancher wrote: »
    Not eid , just an ordinary u tag from mullinahone, yea very tidy, we tag all our lambs at birth and would lose very few

    Is it just a management tag or does it carry the NSIS.


  • #174
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    Wooly Admirer wrote: »
    Is it just a management tag or does it carry the NSIS.

    Yes it is NSIS, Allflex Flexitag it goes by


  • #175
    sheepmad
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭sheepmad


    rancher wrote: »
    Ewe lambs on bedded slats
    2014-02-02 18.05.27.jpg
    Pedigree pets on ad lib cold milk, weaning today
    2014-02-02 15.25.13.jpg

    Lovely pets. Would you sell them for a tenner a head?? Could be a good cheap ram there somewhere


  • #176
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Maybe my EU subsidised standards are too high but I reckon they're being fairly rough on them lambs.

    this might suit you better
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yqsaQKLqso:)


  • #177
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    on my wish list
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJoxSEc8Hk


  • #178
    Nekarsulm
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    dave747 wrote: »
    001.jpg

    Think i might have to move the troughs this evening :)

    you definitely win the "my foot bath is bigger than yours" competition ! :)


  • #179
    arctictree
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    My LLeyn ewe lambs:


  • #180
    Box09
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    arctictree wrote: »
    My LLeyn ewe lambs:

    Lovely lambs (& grass!)- are they in lamb?


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  • #181
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,354 ✭✭✭arctictree


    Box09 wrote: »
    Lovely lambs (& grass!)- are they in lamb?

    No, not in lamb. Thought I'd leave them this year. Done a lot of reseeding last summer and its starting to pay off now.


  • #182
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    Box09 wrote: »
    Lovely lambs (& grass!)

    +1

    Jealous of both ;)


  • #183
    rancher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭rancher


    arctictree wrote: »
    My LLeyn ewe lambs:

    Nice sheep, are they pure bred.


  • #184
    arctictree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,354 ✭✭✭arctictree


    rancher wrote: »
    Nice sheep, are they pure bred.

    Yes, pure bred but not registered.


  • #185
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭eire23


    arctictree wrote: »
    My LLeyn ewe lambs:

    Lovely lambs looking lambs artic, They have nice pickings as well!


  • #186
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭eire23


    g6c1.jpg
    Grubs up!:)


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  • #187
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Did that shed come from Tipperary Eire?


  • #188
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭eire23


    No, connacht gold or as they were known as then ncf made the steel work.
    The rest was a home made job. Was put up around 96 i think.


  • #189
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    eire23 wrote: »
    No, connacht gold or as they were known as then ncf made the steel work.
    The rest was a home made job. Was put up around 96 i think.

    Dads shed is very similar, got it from Dundrum Steel in Tipp.


  • #190
    Username John
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    Nice looking shed all right Eire.

    How do you feed ration? Is there another trough at the back of the pens?


  • #191
    eire23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭eire23


    Feed nuts along the front and then theres troughs going all around the pens bolted to the walls. Its grand once yer fairly quick getting around. Have another shed and the pens used to be twice the size of the ones in the picture but ended up dividing them up as it was a torture, the feckers would nearly knock ya down once ya got into the pen with the bucket of nuts!


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  • #192
    Username John
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    eire23 wrote: »
    Have another shed and the pens used to be twice the size of the ones in the picture but ended up dividing them up as it was a torture, the feckers would nearly knock ya down once ya got into the pen with the bucket of nuts!

    oh - I know the way. We're still feeding them in troughs on the ground in pens down here :(


  • #193
    dave747
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭dave747


    003.jpg

    Finally got to empty the lambing shed this morning :)

    3 wks rest now till round 2


  • #194
    Conmaicne Mara
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    The help hard at it this morning


  • #195
    Username John
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,237 ✭✭✭Username John


    dave747 wrote: »
    003.jpg

    Finally got to empty the lambing shed this morning :)

    3 wks rest now till round 2

    Nice looking lambs Dave.
    What are the ewes, Charolais cross?

    Serious walls around that field. :)


  • #196
    Username John
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    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    The help hard at it this morning

    Tis always nice to have help, do they realise they are now stars of boards.ie :)

    That field is nice and green. Is not closed up long?


  • #197
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Username John wrote: »
    Tis always nice to have help, do they realise they are now stars of boards.ie :)

    That field is nice and green. Is not closed up long?

    No, they'd want comission :D

    It's closed off since about the third of December. Ideally there'd be more grass there now than you see. I kept all female stock until late last year as I had been told there was a way to increase my numbers. It didn't pan out and I sold excess lambs and ewes I didn't want to breed from for one reason or another. So there was more pressure than usual on that area as I had ewe lambs on the top of the farm where I normally wouldn't, sealed off from the ram.


  • #198
    Cran
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    Not technically a sheep it's my new snacker :)


  • #199
    Nekarsulm
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    Looks really well made, Cran. Health to wear and tear it!


  • #200
    Conmaicne Mara
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    Bit of light reading waiting to pick up the kids.


  • #201
    AnFeirmeoir
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    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Bit of light reading waiting to pick up the kids.

    Ah yes.. The pre lambing handbook - it'll be foked in the corner of the shed when the going gets tough in a few weeks when your trying to foster a triplet while fighting off the sionnach .
    Does it mention how to get enough sleep while watching them 24/7 ? That's the chapter I want


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