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And God looks down on the righteous
Amen
God loves a trier. They always said I was the chosen one
And God looks down on the righteous
Amen
I thought he said you very trying. Must of misheard
God loves a trier. They always said I was the chosen one
I thought he said you very trying. Must of misheard
No you heard right, he dint av his specs onI thought he said you very trying. Must of misheard
How early do you target getting your lambs away if you're lambing sharpNot wanting to rub noses, but
Remember this picture from a week past on Friday (12th Feb)
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Well just to illustrate why I can lamb earlier than many in most 'normal' years, this is it today at 4pm. Just 9 days later
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The fields which had muck in January have really responded and are looking good.
Mother Nature doing her best to turn it around, just in a nick of time.
7 days to go.
How early do you target getting your lambs away if you're lambing sharp
We lamb mid March and usually have about a third to half of lambs away before July and lambs usually all gone before harvest, but I question if we're should just leave them later, but I hate lambs hanging about in the autumn.
If you don’t mind me asking but are you going to be the feeding ewes with lambs on that , looks shockingly bare for a ewe to perform to her max and rear say twins too their full potential?Not wanting to rub noses, but
Remember this picture from a week past on Friday (12th Feb)
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Well just to illustrate why I can lamb earlier than many in most 'normal' years, this is it today at 4pm. Just 9 days later
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The fields which had muck in January have really responded and are looking good.
Mother Nature doing her best to turn it around, just in a nick of time.
7 days to go.
If you don’t mind me asking but are you going to be the feeding ewes with lambs on that , looks shockingly bare for a ewe to perform to her max and rear say twins too their full potential?
Maybe there is more cover than the photo shows
I don't like the sound of the mules you had, I have friends with mules on a later farm than you appear to be on and their first lambs (Beltex) will be ready at 10 weeks.Depends on the year. I can get the earlies gone by mid/late July if the weather plays ball. 2018 and 2020 were not good and those lambs were here for a lot longer.
Sell majority of my lambs mid July - September (from the later lambing ewes). Only folks selling lambs quicker around here are very low in the valley on arable ground... and understocked. Aim to be cleared out by Christmas. I do feed the lambs once into October, but they're never pushed hard.
When we had Mules (and nearly 200 less ewes!), lambing started on 25th March and no lamb would be ready to leave before start of August.
I don't like the sound of the mules you had, I have friends with mules on a later farm than you appear to be on and their first lambs (Beltex) will be ready at 10 weeks.
I'm not altogether a mule fan but any I've dealt with produce fast growing lambs.
Too many selected on size and markings and too many blackies with big teatsThey need to suit the ground though, like any sheep. On the right farm the do perform well.
They were never that hot here and took an awful lot of feeding. Although funnily enough as I was switching over, the last 100 run as 1 mob separate from the other ewes. Maybe because i had culled all the rubbish out but their final year or 2 they did really well. I remember saying to dad if they'd performed like that a few years earlier I probably wouldn't have started the switch
Too many selected on size and markings and too many blackies with big teats
Most folks I know who have good success with mules breed their own, and in most cases are off Blackies that aren't bred from Show Pony lines and Blues that can survive uplands.
Great start! Looks like luck is on your side with the forecast. I'm bringing in the next six heifers to calve tomorrow. The weather is so nice, wish I had the bottle to keep them outside.Beaut of an evening... lovely warm, still day. Into the TexX's just after 5 tonight to find this girlView attachment 943808
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Not much needing to be said. All healthy, all fed. She's proud as punch... and so am I!
So that's it, we're back here again. Forecast looks good for the next couple weeks so bring on the lambing!
Is that your first?? Look three nice size lambs, just need a single in the morning now!! Do you take one off or leave them? I leave them on the April lambing llynes here if there alright unless ones suffering within the first 48hrs, generally they look after them well but they’d be going on to some saved up grass straight after lambing! Lovely day here too an last couple of days, just finished lambing 800 inside an glad to be out the shed an the lambs bowling round in this weather, makes the pain go away quicker
It will no doubt break just in time for my April lambingWeather is looking like being very settled for the most of March. Hopefully the forecast models are right and I'll be well finished by the time it changes