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Lamb creep feeder problem

  • 19-06-2020 11:08pm
    #1
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Bought an 8 ft double sided creep feeder this spring.Feeding 90 lambs on it.The problem with it though is I caught some of the sheep eating from it.If I adjust it a little then the stronger lambs cant get eating from it
    Some of the stronger lambs have heads as big as some of the smaller sheep!
    Is this a common problem with this type of feeder?


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  • #2
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭razor8


    SuperTeeJay wrote: »
    Bought an 8 ft double sided creep feeder this spring.Feeding 90 lambs on it.The problem with it though is I caught some of the sheep eating from it.If I adjust it a little then the stronger lambs cant get eating from it
    Some of the stronger lambs have heads as big as some of the smaller sheep!
    Is this a common problem with this type of feeder?

    Sounds like you need them weaned. When were they born


  • #3
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭SuperTeeJay


    razor8 wrote: »
    Sounds like you need them weaned. When were they born

    I'm weighing them this eve.they were 37/38 kgs 10 days ago but butcher wants them around 45kg.Lambed from mid march onwards.


  • #4
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,258 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    SuperTeeJay wrote: »
    I'm weighing them this eve.they were 37/38 kgs 10 days ago but butcher wants them around 45kg.Lambed from mid march onwards.

    Yea, wean them. weaned ewes are ideal for cleaning off stemmy paddocks this time of year.


  • #5
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭SuperTeeJay


    wrangler wrote: »
    Yea, wean them. weaned ewes are ideal for cleaning off stemmy paddocks this time of year.

    They were all between 42 and 46kg so heading off tonight.


  • #6
    Cyclist101
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Cyclist101


    SuperTeeJay wrote: »
    They were all between 42 and 46kg so heading off tonight.

    They are super weights for lambs born from mid March on (if I've read your post correctly). What's your secret? Are you feeding creep, forward creep grazing, set stocked, using a super mineral drench etc etc


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  • #7
    SuperTeeJay
    Registered Users Posts: 94 ✭✭SuperTeeJay


    Cyclist101 wrote: »
    They are super weights for lambs born from mid March on (if I've read your post correctly). What's your secret? Are you feeding creep, forward creep grazing, set stocked, using a super mineral drench etc etc

    They are mainly texels off suffolk/charolais cross sheep.A few have zwartable cross too and they have excellent lambs off a texel ram.They all got a tramazole 2 1/2 dose at beginning of may and 10 to 15mls of growvite lamb.Rotated between 3 fields that were receeded about 6 years ago.Fields got no fertiliser only from their own manure. It was always leafy grass but they have been more or less adlib meal since mid April also.
    I made the mistake of weaning them sunday eve after weighing .butcher said he couldnt take them til this eve.i ran them through the scales and they had lost ave 2 kgs each. My mistake.This year is exceptional tho as our sheep lambed a month earlier last year and lambs were only hitting those weights in June last year.


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