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jendan · Apr 7, 2022

serf said:
There's always a chance of rough changeable weather will be likely in march/April, and the topography taken into account when sowing the ground to lamb on ....

Do you think the agents advising them are really that thoughtful?

Just because · Apr 7, 2022

Mc115reed said:
He’d have too have some cattle too hold back first

He just won't reply

Estate fencing. · Apr 7, 2022

livestock 1 said:
If they are in fields where there’s not too many problems that they can get into that’s true enough. If they are in pastures with gutters full of water and there’s some shelter with walls and rushes and such like sometimes leaving them is probably the best thing to do. The old fellas used to play hell with me for going in amongst sheep on a night for bringing them out of shelter and driving lambs towards gutters and they did have a point.
Not easy whatever you do one thing certain is most of my lambing work is done before lambing starts. If the ewe is fit and has milk and the lambs are sharp you are in with a chance

My lambing field is almost as good as a shed, steep horseshoe shaped valley with a 2 mile long 6 foot wall round the outside and big beech trees over hanging it.

muleman · Apr 7, 2022

livestock 1 said:
If they are in fields where there’s not too many problems that they can get into that’s true enough. If they are in pastures with gutters full of water and there’s some shelter with walls and rushes and such like sometimes leaving them is probably the best thing to do. The old fellas used to play hell with me for going in amongst sheep on a night for bringing them out of shelter and driving lambs towards gutters and they did have a point.
Not easy whatever you do one thing certain is most of my lambing work is done before lambing starts. If the ewe is fit and has milk and the lambs are sharp you are in with a chance

Lambing time is made in winter, no doubt about that!
If the sheep are used to quad bikes it doesnt disturb them one bit going through them in the night, they never budge. Im talking those extreme storms, we had snowstorm one night last week, im sure id have saved a lamb if i went out during the night, not something any of us really want to be doing but sometimes needs must.
Maybe its just something we do when we're young and daft and too much energy!

unlacedgecko · Apr 7, 2022

muleman said:
The trouble is, impressionable people that look on here for advice do as these outspoken people say and before they know it theyve a disaster on their hands.
If they cant be housed they must be checked during the night during this bad weather to avoid losses, whatever breed of sheep you run.

Absolute rubbish.

muleman · Apr 7, 2022

unlacedgecko said:
Absolute rubbish.

*in your opinion

unlacedgecko · Apr 7, 2022

muleman said:
*in your opinion

Just as your post was your opinion.

balerman · Apr 7, 2022

Northern territory said:
Will clean go up a fair bit more do people think. Got a few left and don’t sell at lambing time.

I think it will,out of kilter with cereal price at the moment.People won’t feed barley that’s worth over £300/t to cattle for long unless dwt is £5.Of course cereals could drop…

livestock 1 · Apr 7, 2022

muleman said:
Lambing time is made in winter, no doubt about that!
If the sheep are used to quad bikes it doesnt disturb them one bit going through them in the night, they never budge. Im talking those extreme storms, we had snowstorm one night last week, im sure id have saved a lamb if i went out during the night, not something any of us really want to be doing but sometimes needs must.
Maybe its just something we do when we're young and daft and too much energy!

I take that back it’s snowing hell here pick them up and put them in.
I think it was 2001 I was out through the night most nights probably lead in 28/30 a day on average it was that bad I was marking ewes up bringing lambs in and leaving them until daylight definitely one to remember lost part of my snitch with frost bite

Werzle · Apr 7, 2022

muleman said:
The trouble is, impressionable people that look on here for advice do as these outspoken people say and before they know it theyve a disaster on their hands.
If they cant be housed they must be checked during the night during this bad weather to avoid losses, whatever breed of sheep you run.

A good stockman gets up at night to check stock that could be giving birth, chancers dont. Its a long painfull death sentence for a ewe or cow that cant give birth and has to wait for a part time farmer to turn up.

muleman · Apr 7, 2022

Werzle said:
A good stockman gets up at night to check stock that could be giving birth, chancers dont. Its a long painfull death sentence for a ewe or cow that cant give birth and has to wait for a part time farmer to turn up.

Your right, any good stockman i know checks his animals regularly.

livestock 1 · Apr 7, 2022

Werzle said:
A good stockman gets up at night to check stock that could be giving birth, chancers dont. Its a long painfull death sentence for a ewe or cow that cant give birth and has to wait for a part time farmer to turn up.

I don’t have to get up I’m usually in amongst the beast anyway

Mc115reed · Apr 7, 2022

muleman said:
Your right, any good stockman i know checks his animals regularly.

But that doesn’t sit right with the New Zealand inspired ethos of just leave the sheep too it and the sheep that survive are worth keeping

Northern territory · Apr 7, 2022

livestock 1 said:
I take that back it’s snowing hell here pick them up and put them in.
I think it was 2001 I was out through the night most nights probably lead in 28/30 a day on average it was that bad I was marking ewes up bringing lambs in and leaving them until daylight definitely one to remember lost part of my snitch with frost bite

Remember a good Friday when I was a kid back in the 90’s like that. We brought them all back into a shed trying to dry them out. Think fields were flooding.

muleman · Apr 7, 2022

Mc115reed said:
But that doesn’t sit right with the New Zealand inspired ethos of just leave the sheep too it and the sheep that survive are worth keeping

Or take a gun and shoot a few!

livestock 1 · Apr 7, 2022

Northern territory said:
Remember a good Friday when I was a kid back in the 90’s like that. We brought them all back into a shed trying to dry them out. Think fields were flooding.

You don’t forget those spells

Northern territory · Apr 7, 2022

livestock 1 said:
You don’t forget those spells

No they really make you question what you do for a living.

Werzle · Apr 7, 2022

Mc115reed said:
But that doesn’t sit right with the New Zealand inspired ethos of just leave the sheep too it and the sheep that survive are worth keeping

Good way to end up bust if a young person just starting out lived by that ethos. I pretty much lockdown for 3 mths when calving, i know for sure if i went out or off i would come home to a calamity. Your either dedicated or your not. I have enough problems without inviting more.

Anymulewilldo · Apr 7, 2022

Outdoor lambing is fine last week. Ours came in Sunday night just as the rain started. I dread too think what a mess they and I’d be in if they were still out!

Hilly · Apr 7, 2022

Bill the Bass said:
Rough here, put one batch of cows and calves back in this morning hellish clashed with one cow a bit posty legged.

Whats posty legged ?

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