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    #332
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    kk.man wrote: »
    That's true to some degree but in a rising market and plenty of fodder it does pay for up to 6 weeks I have found.

    What weight per day would you be giving them in the 6 weeks.


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    #333
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    What weight per day would you be giving them in the 6 weeks.
    I feed no more than 0.3kgs in a single feed twice per day. Others say different but I found any increase was offset by deaths, maybe I'm doing something wrong but that's my rule of thumb.


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    #334
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    kk.man wrote: »
    I feed no more than 0.3kgs in a single feed twice per day. Others say different but I found any increase was offset by deaths, maybe I'm doing something wrong but that's my rule of thumb.

    How much would they eat per day if it was ad lib


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    #335
    wrangler
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    How much would they eat per day if it was ad lib

    I had them eating 1.25 kg ad lib in October to get rid,


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    #336
    Robson99
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    Ad lib here once Xmas comes. Only way to finish them


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    #337
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    I see pets making 35 euro on adverts/donedeal. Some money for a day old lamb.


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    #338
    charolais0153
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    I see pets making 35 euro on adverts/donedeal. Some money for a day old lamb.

    Asking or getting


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    #339
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    charolais0153 wrote: »
    Asking or getting

    Getting, one on adverts asking 35 and sold within 20 mins. Without even listing breed or sex. Madness.


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    #340
    razor8
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    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Getting, one on adverts asking 35 and sold within 20 mins. Without even listing breed or sex. Madness.

    I’d be worried about a lot of pet lambs going to inexperienced homes this year. With lock down people might be willing to purchase to keep children occupied


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    #341
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    razor8 wrote: »
    I’d be worried about a lot of pet lambs going to inexperienced homes this year. With lock down people might be willing to purchase to keep children occupied

    Having said that - I was planning on getting a few again, for exactly that reason - something different for the kids...
    (We dont lamb any more, so dont have any small lambs of our own)


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    #342
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,165 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Having said that - I was planning on getting a few again, for exactly that reason - something different for the kids...
    (We dont lamb any more, so dont have any small lambs of our own)

    Yea, but you'd know how to mind them, I've seen some meeting sad lives. we wouldn't sell them here on principle


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    #343
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Having said that - I was planning on getting a few again, for exactly that reason - something different for the kids...
    (We dont lamb any more, so dont have any small lambs of our own)

    I usually get a few every year. Especially with herself at home at the moment i was looking but hard to see the sense in paying over 20 for a pet lamb.


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    #344
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    wrangler wrote: »
    Yea, but you'd know how to mind them, I've seen some meeting sad lives. we wouldn't sell them here on principle

    ha - I think I would, and then somedays Wrangler you'd wonder do I... :)


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    #345
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Jjameson wrote: »
    Wait a while a get a middling jex calf for 30€!

    I think I'd have more chance of getting the lamb to 42kg lol


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    #346
    Zomoradi
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    intense jate


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    #347
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Does anyone here chop beet for hoggets? I’ve had mine in since Christmas due to rain but moving forward was thinking of chopping beet next year along with the ration. I’m paying €10 per bag and they get 2 each. Just wondering if fodder beet would be a good option. Thanks


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    #348
    memorystick
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    Stupid question. How long would a bale of silage last 60 lambs on meal? I’d rather feed hay as less waste and sheep are more picky with silage. If they’re on meal, is hay good enough anyway? Thanks



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    #349
    wrangler
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118409187#Comment_118409187

    If you were giving the lambs .5kg meal/day, I'd guess the silage would be rotten before they'd finish the bale



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    #350
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118409192#Comment_118409192

    Is hay good enough for fattening lambs with meal? Baled silage is more finicky. I’d imagine you’d want at least 100+ to be feeding out of a bale per day.



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    #351
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,165 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118409241#Comment_118409241

    If you want to fatten them you'd need to be feeding a kilo/day of meal and at that level you'd only need a small bit of roughage to keep their stomachs right, be it hay, silage or straw. hay can make them potbellied if fed too much and silage needs to be perfect quality to be any addition.

    If you're feeding a kilo/day, they need to be built up slowly to that level and given in two feeds



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    #352
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    If building up slowly, how does a creep feeder work? Do you just fill feeder and leave in? I genuinely don’t know. I was thinking of buying those green plastic sturdy ones from Glanbia. They’re about €380.



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    #353
    wrangler
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118409876#Comment_118409876

    Most times you put a creep feeder out, the lambs don't know what meal is and they learn slowly themselves, I don't know how you'd deal with lambs that are used to meal. Even to let a creep feeder empty for 12 hrs leads to gorgeing........ maybe someone else has experience of changing lambs over to creep feeders .

    We use an advantage feeder here , it has slides on it to restrict feeding, it works well but you have to use lamb pellets.

    https://advantagefeeders.ie/product/500/



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    #354
    Jd310
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭Jd310


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118409187#Comment_118409187

    I had 60 ewe lambs outside on a poorish run with access to ad lib meal. Gave them a bale to pick at aswell. The silage was top quality, took them 3 weeks to go through it, the bale lasted that long which was suprising.



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    #355
    RobinBanks
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    Hi All, i have a batch of texel ewe lambs. My original plan was to kill them when they were fit, but wasnt keeping close enough eye on them because the majority are now 55-60kg. What options do i have?

    1. Send to factory, knowing i will only get paid up to 22kg dead
    2. Sell at mart as breeding hoggets. Is it a bit early in the year to sell them? as in farmers not buying for grass yet
    3. Sell to butcher. Do butcher buy heavier lambs
    4. Hang onto them until later in the year and sell in the mart

    I have very little experience with sheep other than buying some store lambs to run over the paddocks in the winter.



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    #356
    Jonnyc135
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Jonnyc135


    Factories will pay to 23kg dead weight but at there weight they will more than likely kill out over 25 kg and ull be penalized. Best bet is mart and they will make over 160 euro now. Seen ones in athenry and ballina mart that weight and ewe hoggets' making 165 euro this week. If enough grass id wait till after st patricks day/first week of april. Ramadan starts 1st april so there will be demand for that and easter so the price will most likely be better, but sell them at the mart factories will screw you with penalties.



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    #357
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118751060#Comment_118751060

    Where are you based? Might be interested in a few for breeding next year.



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    #358
    memorystick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Is chopped fodder beet an option for fattening lambs? Meal is going to be mad next year.



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    #359
    Mad about baa baas
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    Anyone at a mart lately..I assume its too soon for store lambs? I have a glut of grass at the moment and would like a few



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    #360
    Jonnyc135
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭Jonnyc135


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119180342#Comment_119180342

    Bit early alright, could be lucky and find a few but I suspect you would pay through the nose for them now and lambs at €8.5/kg. If I was you and you just needed something to keep the grass down cull ewes might be a better option but this time of year you would want them sheared and they also could be hard found.



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    #361
    Mad about baa baas
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119180432#Comment_119180432

    Thanks for that..I was also wondering about picking up a few aged ewes with lambs at foot ..sell lambs when fit and ewes a while after?



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