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Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

neilo said:
I ‘entertain’ shedders but also see plenty of negatives in them. Does that qualify me as one of the usual suspects?

I have to admit she’s a good shedding ewe. She’s got two live lambs and she’s still with them.

Haha you were definitely on the maybe list but if I am being honest you know what you are doing with sheep by the look and sound of things so your viewpoint is valid whatever it may be.

Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

Aspiring Peasants said:
Nice to see her staying with her lambs or have you got an extremely good zoom lens?

I don't know whether I'm one of your suspects but I couldn't resist

Haha I don't have an issue with that really, they are flighty and certainly don't stand beside you when you are marking the lambs but they can be at the other end of a 60 acre meadow and never seem to lose lambs, they come at high speed as soon as the lamb bleats.... the mules can lose a lamb that is 10 yards away over a rock head.

Aspiring Peasants · May 23, 2022

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Anymulewilldo · May 23, 2022

Kingcustard said:
I am actually running a wee experiment here to see who doesn't like my post and picture because it is of an Easycare with a nice pair of lambs that lambed itself.... I have noticed on various threads that certain people only comment on shredders when they have something negative to say and never entertain anything about them that doesn't fit the narrative of their breed being better and shredders being shite haha.....

..... don't disappoint me 'usual suspects'

I thought it was a handy looking Welsh x Lleyn ewe with a nice pair of young twins on a good grassy hill!

Hadn’t even clicked she was a shedder!

Nithsdale · May 23, 2022

Just to kick the feel good right out of this thread this morning....

Holes pecked deep into it both sides

The lamb was still alive when I found him, with no other obvious ailments

Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

What did that, seen plenty of attacks from crows, foxes badgers and dogs but never seen them eaten there. What do you think did it

Nithsdale · May 23, 2022

Hole in same place on both sides, all the meat taken out.
It'll have had to be a bird. But which species I'm not sure - Raven seems most plausible

Jonp · May 23, 2022

Kingcustard said:
In fairness we have had a lot of rain up here in the past 3 weeks and the grass has just exploded.

It wasn't like that a month ago, it looked like the Gobi Desert

like this then....yesterday.
Desperately dry here. Going to give last calf a couple of days to get stronger then move cattle from this calving field to one with alot more grass....the cows don't need the grass really but I need to get the ewes and lambs on this field to give the other fields a rest...and they'll be next to the shed so I can start shearing them.

Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

@sticky these are 3 to 4 weeks old max, not the best pair or the worst, just the ones that walked up to the sheep trailer to see what was going on.

Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

Nithsdale Farmer said:
Hole in same place on both sides, all the meat taken out.
It'll have had to be a bird. But which species I'm not sure - Raven seems most plausible

We had ravens, used to walk after the new born lambs until they lay down and then attack..... not sure what he opened to them, they just disappeared one day

Kingcustard · May 23, 2022

Kingcustard said:
@sticky these are 3 to 4 weeks old max, not the best pair or the worst, just the ones that walked up to the sheep trailer to see what was going on.
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@neilo these are obviously 5 days old as they are getting tailed tomorrow

neilo · May 23, 2022

Kingcustard said:
@neilo these are obviously 5 days old as they are getting tailed tomorrow

You're right, they do grow like mushrooms.

primmiemoo · May 23, 2022

Nithsdale Farmer said:
Hole in same place on both sides, all the meat taken out.
It'll have had to be a bird. But which species I'm not sure - Raven seems most plausible

Black-backed Gull will do that sort of thing as well. Vicious long beaks, and nothing between the ears to regret the act.

Bill dog · May 23, 2022

sticky said:
Feck me, you’ve got more grass on that hill than I have down here on the flat.

You beat me too it ! Look at the feckin grass . Mind you , he’s in Fife. I expect the ewes lie in the shade of the palm trees

when it’s too hot !!

Northeastfarmer · May 23, 2022

Nithsdale Farmer said:
Just to kick the feel good right out of this thread this morning....

Holes pecked deep into it both sides View attachment 1037987 View attachment 1037989

The lamb was still alive when I found him, with no other obvious ailments

Surely there must be something wrong with the lamb though? I can’t imagine a healthy lamb just laying there whilst being eaten alive by crows

Nithsdale · May 23, 2022

Kingcustard said:
We had ravens, used to walk after the new born lambs until they lay down and then attack..... not sure what he opened to them, they just disappeared one day

Had lambs hung at lambing, tongues pecked as the Hogg lays pushing... got 1 field that's always been bad as the barstewards nest in the trees up 1 side.

Never normally get any bother - unless a ewe is coupied for a while (don't get too many coupied these days). For all the lamb wasn't obviously ill, it must've been ill for it to just take a pecking

Poor bugger was in some pain. No suffering now, only reason I keep my rifle.

Nithsdale · May 23, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
Surely there must be something wrong with the lamb though? I can’t imagine a healthy lamb just laying there whilst being eaten alive by crows

That's why I said no obvious ailment... never said there wasn't something wrong - I just couldn't see anything (other than the 2 holes in its hind quarters)

Northeastfarmer · May 23, 2022

Nithsdale Farmer said:
That's why I said no obvious ailment... never said there wasn't something wrong - I just couldn't see anything (other than the 2 holes in its hind quarters)

Probably got a spinal abscess

Nithsdale · May 23, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
Probably got a spinal abscess

Or possibly pneumonia... weather is really changeable here, pretty humid and temps are all over the place and getting a bit of rain past 10 days/fortnight.

Nothing was 'down' yesterday when I was round them

unlacedgecko · May 23, 2022

Predation by birds gas been the leading cause of lamb mortality for us this year.

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