Absolute rubbish. I’m annoyed if ours are doing less than 50% up until end of September. Can’t comment after that as they’re all gone after that.
Quite
How much do you take off for the weight of the handbag ? And how well do your lambs kill out owing to this?
Well we were on about this the other day. We have been attempting to improve pasture and aftermath with lime and phosphate to increase clover kill rushes and spraying areas and cutting.
You do well not to see depreciation in those things
Think this must be a first, maybe its the new normal!
I hope so otherwise we are all up sh!t creek one way or another
There's a B12 injection called Troy from Australia that we inject the lambs with it is something all should look at . From very early age 1 mil every two months. Ewes also 1 mil every 4 months.Were bolusing but not anymore. Iodine Drench now with powder bought off ebay and mixed to complement.
You haven't bought their replacements yet
Have you had these sheep tested to find this out or trail and error?
i think the whole of the U.K. is short on sleinium copper cobalt , apart from maybe the very best of land and probably dosent have sheep on it much .
Some folk talk about mineral heaps locking it all up but I don’t know
I hope Jack isn’t reading thisI finally got to checking the email for the cull ewes I took in on Monday last night.
Charollais ewes at £187, a couple of Highlanders at £129 and nine pure Exlanas at £90. I didn’t even top the market with the Charollais, whose better flock mates had done so at £163 a couple of weeks ago.
Total was £4500 after stoppages for a trailer of 36 sheep. A good day at the office.
Yes and the cobalt bolus and selenium and iodine bolus made a big difference. The latter move to Troy and iodine Drench mix has been done as the lambs can be done after 3 weeks via injection instead of them having to grow to 3 months to take bolus. We had been using Smartshot B12 but moved to Troy as it's more competitively priced both are good products. Imported via vets and would highly recommend blood testing as everybody's land soil structure/minerals/way lands been farmed is different hence the goodness of trace elements coming out of the ground.Panning of the ground with the modern heavy machinery is another looming problem as roots cannot penetrate and have a deep root system to access the minerals/trace elements. Chicory is a pan breaker .If you get a chance Google the Clifton Park system of farming (some 100 yrs ago) it will give you pause for thought! Book copies can be found on Abebooks or ebay.
