General sheep thread

Lambman

Razor8 no they'd be bigger than Mayo's say there plenty a swaledale in them.

DJ98

Would all the aged ewes go in lamb or would there be alot empty?

Lambman

80 off 84 scanned in lamb this year... The four still could be in lamb as ram wasn't pulled from them 2 early... Scanned 150% including emptys

Siamsa Sessions

Thanks for the advice again folks re housing. Did the footbath and clostridia vaccine on Friday, then left them out again. And put them into the shed this afternoon.

Keeping a close eye on them to make sure all eat and no one’s too shy but so far so good.

Left the single bearing mountainy ones outside. Gave them a few cubes but they don’t seem that interested. “Suit yer cracked selves”, says I :-)

DJ98

Do 2 week old lambs being sold with ewes out of the yard have to be tagged?

charolais0153

DJ98 wrote: »

Do 2 week old lambs being sold with ewes out of the yard have to be tagged?

Technically yes but its hardly worth it?

Green farmer

Anyone buy soya Beal meal by the bag ? Got quoted €13 a bag here or €520 a tonne. Anyone use anything else as a protein finisher for lambs ?

FarmerDougal

Green farmer wrote: »

Anyone buy soya Beal meal by the bag ? Got quoted €13 a bag here or €520 a tonne. Anyone use anything else as a protein finisher for lambs ?

400€ a ton collected in big bags here

Green farmer

FarmerDougal wrote: »

400€ a ton collected in big bags here

Amazing how some places just don’t want to sell it to you. Just want you to buy their lamb finisher and nothing else.

Lambman

I'd just give the tags for the lambs till the buyer so he can tag them when they get older..

Young95

Scanned ewes here last week very disappointed 1.6 lambs per ewe including empties . Anyone else scan poor this year?

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Anyone buy soya Beal meal by the bag ? Got quoted €13 a bag here or €520 a tonne. Anyone use anything else as a protein finisher for lambs ?

Same price in small bags here. Is protein needed foe lambs at this time pf year. Would maize meal be a lot better?

arctictree

Young95 wrote: »

Scanned ewes here last week very disappointed 1.6 lambs per ewe including empties . Anyone else scan poor this year?

Yeah, I had 10 empties from 90 Ewes. No abortions or deaths yet and 10 days from lambing so not doing too bad.

kk.man

arctictree wrote: »

Yeah, I had 10 empties from 90 Ewes. No abortions or deaths yet and 10 days from lambing so not doing too bad.

That seems to be the run of it alright. The drought effected them.

Green farmer

charolais0153 wrote: »

Same price in small bags here. Is protein needed foe lambs at this time pf year. Would maize meal be a lot better?

Is ground maize meal and maize distrillers grains the same thing or two different things ? Can buy the ground maize meal for reasonable money, in small bags but Teagasc say the maize distrillers can be huge in copper, so was cautious about using it, Incase it was the same thing. Anybody know the answer ?

Green farmer

Young95 wrote: »

Scanned ewes here last week very disappointed 1.6 lambs per ewe including empties . Anyone else scan poor this year?

Got them scanned the other day. Im down .3 from last year. I knew even before the scanner arrived I knew I’d be down because of the drought. before he started scanning, I asked him what he was seeing on at the moment. He said loads of singles and mine was no different. Had 2.5% empty, so happy with that as well.

Cran

Green farmer wrote: »

Got them scanned the other day. Im down .3 from last year. I knew even before the scanner arrived I knew I’d be down because of the drought. before he started scanning, I asked him what he was seeing on at the moment. He said loads of singles and mine was no different. Had 2.5% empty, so happy with that as well.

Back .25 here, but triplets back most tbh

wrangler

Green farmer wrote: »

Got them scanned the other day. Im down .3 from last year. I knew even before the scanner arrived I knew I’d be down because of the drought. before he started scanning, I asked him what he was seeing on at the moment. He said loads of singles and mine was no different. Had 2.5% empty, so happy with that as well.

Accept it, you'll have less hassle less work and more sold younger....after all you can't put lambs in em now

Green farmer

wrangler wrote: »

Accept it, you'll have less hassle less work and more sold younger....after all you can't put lambs in em now

Well said, It’s the way I’m looking at it as well. Save me some money on mealing them over the next month or so as well.

gazahayes

Green farmer wrote: »

Is ground maize meal and maize distrillers grains the same thing or two different things ? Can buy the ground maize meal for reasonable money, in small bags but Teagasc say the maize distrillers can be huge in copper, so was cautious about using it, Incase it was the same thing. Anybody know the answer ?

They're two separate feeds. Maize meal is great value for what it is.

Lambman

Never had a better scanning here than this year 214% in cross breed ewes no emptys in 112 ewes 150% in old horned ewes off the hill 2 weeks before ram went with then 150% with 4 emptys whick could still be in lamb delighted

Siamsa Sessions

Very unlikely we’re in the new ANC maps but is there any place online where you can check?

Thanks

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Is ground maize meal and maize distrillers grains the same thing or two different things ? Can buy the ground maize meal for reasonable money, in small bags but Teagasc say the maize distrillers can be huge in copper, so was cautious about using it, Incase it was the same thing. Anybody know the answer ?

Different things

ganmo

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Very unlikely we’re in the new ANC maps but is there any place online where you can check?

Thanks

https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmerschemespayments/basicpaymentschemegreeningareasofnaturalconstraints/areasofnaturalconstraintsancscheme2019/

Dinzee Conlee

Green farmer wrote: »

Is ground maize meal and maize distrillers grains the same thing or two different things ? Can buy the ground maize meal for reasonable money, in small bags but Teagasc say the maize distrillers can be huge in copper, so was cautious about using it, Incase it was the same thing. Anybody know the answer ?

As far as I know, maize meal is what used to be known as "yellow meal" - old lads used to swear by yellow meal & barley as a finishing ration for lambs...

Lambman

Anybody know much about Badgers just seen 7 in the space off about 300yards in a area I never seen one before in 34 years... Is it there breeding time or what now?

Birdnuts

Lambman wrote: »

Anybody know much about Badgers just seen 7 in the space off about 300yards in a area I never seen one before in 34 years... Is it there breeding time or what now?

Its a busy time for them alright - atm they are probably cleaning out their setts for new litters. They can move large piles of old bedding from one place to another

arctictree

First prolapse of the season here. Got it in and strapped her up. Do you lads give a shot of Penicillin too? See it recommended in places.

razor8

arctictree wrote: »

First prolapse of the season here. Got it in and strapped her up. Do you lads give a shot of Penicillin too? See it recommended in places.

Was at a talk last night and they were saying we should be using pain relief like metacam a lot more

orm0nd

razor8 wrote: »

Was at a talk last night and they were saying we should be using pain relief like metacam a lot more

is it licensed for sheep ?