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Sheep pens

  • 15-02-2014 11:05pm
    #1
    famer279
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Well lads
    My way with the lambing pens isn't too effective:mad:. When lambs are born I bring the lambs and the ewe down to the shed which is divided into 20 pens. There is 3 buckets in each pen ( 1 for water, 1 for meal and 1 for hay ) which are filled twice daily (morning and evening). It takes me a good while down there every morning and evening. For the water I have a big bucket in the middle of the shed. I have a little bucket that takes the water from the big bucket into the pens bucket. This takes the most time. For the hay I just give them a handfull every morning and evening. And for the meal I have a little measure which I use to give the meal. I would just like to know how do ye manage with the shed ? All answers greatly appreciated. Photos would be handy too .
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Farrell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭Farrell


    Farmer,
    I guess the pens stay in place permanently (not taken down after season ends).
    How about a drinker between every 2 pens


  • #3
    famer279
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭famer279


    Farrell wrote: »
    Farmer,
    I guess the pens stay in place permanently (not taken down after season ends).
    How about a drinker between every 2 pens

    Yeah they are permanent I suppose I might try that thanks


  • #4
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Instead of the big bucket in the shed, which I suppose has a hose pipe going into it , could you position a cut down ICB somewhere near the door and run the spouting into it? God knows it'll always be full......................

    If you can just dip in two lick buckets into it, you would top up 20 small ones in 5 go's.
    Often waiting for a bucket to fill from a hose eats up serious time

    Could stick a ball-cock on the tank also.

    For feed just wheel in a barrow of silage and divide it out.

    On a side issue, just to prove how awkward they can be, the loose shed the unlambed ewes are in had 2 JFC plastic drinkers screwed to the wall at a height suitable for weanlings. I dropped one drinker down to about 18 inched off the ground. They insist on drinking out of the one that is too high, having to reach up and hold their head side ways to lick the water out. Ignore the one at a comfortable height. :rolleyes:


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