General sheep thread

We filled the bin at 310 euro /ton for a high quality 19% nut blown in last November.

Ran out last week and don't need enough to justify another bulk delivery, got a few small bags in the local co-op working out at 455/ton.

I have a few ewes ready to lamb in the next 2 weeks. On sparse ground at the moment with haylage and daily feed of nuts and soaked beet pulp. Should i wait until they lamb to move them across to good grass or let them into it now?

The only reservation I'd have is putting the single carrying ewes on good grass and the risk of them putting it in the lambs.

Doubles and triplets should be fine

Hi all, I am finishing Hoggets at the minute and watching the price creep up, when would I need to have them gone by, from what I can see the big prices are there until after Ramadan has finished so let’s say second week of May….the Easter passing didn’t effect the Hogget trade last year….is there anyone else finishing them and plan to have them gone by a certain date ?

+1

Watching a couple of marts during the week and 52 to 55 kgs seem to be the best selling weight.

Certainly not paying at present meal prices to carry much higher.

Have a3 ewe that lambed a bout 4 weeks ago, last weekend i came across her in the morning and she was down flat, legs jerkin, head shaking. I gave her calcium and magnesium straight away, checked her for mastitis, clear, gave her something in case it was pneumonia.

Got an anti inflammatory of the vet, keto vit, she is still down, I'm bottling in a litre of milk to her a day, include beef fat for high energy.

Head would be arched back.

She is less jittery now but no sign or ability to stand Im presuming she won't come right.

Unfortunately After that length of time it’s unlikely. It would take an absolute miracle of divine intervention id say

Yeah, it’s a very good video…

The outside silage feeding space was very good I thought…

For the inside silage pit - it looked like they had a door in the shed at the back of the pit. How would they have sealed around that I wonder? Or am I wrong?

Shaun is doing this farming life this year.. They are very well setup

If selling a ewe with 3week old lambs at foot at the mart..do the lambs need to be tagged?

Lamb with suspected pneumonia. Week old . Gave him synulox anything else lads fine good ?

Had the same thing this morning. Lamb was still warm and just gone when I found the ewe sitting on it. Had being a small lambs d had spend a few days getting it going. Was flying it and then that. Fecking sicken you.

Well folks quick one for ya . Is it okay to send a ewe to the factory that has a dead lamb in her ? She hasn’t been injected with anything so no withdrawals. The ewe had a good hard elder maybe 10 days ago but now it’s gone soft and shrinking up with no milk in her teats . She was scanned for a single lamb . She’s still in good form but has never been trying to lamb . So I’d say she got a puck awhile back and the lamb is dead in her . Has anyone ever had an issue like this before or any advice to know for definitely that her lamb is dead . The ewes that were scanned as lates are lambing strong now but this ewe should have lambed by now as she wasn’t marked as a late . An feed back would be appreciated.

they will take her no problem