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- Cheshire
The gimmers can’t have been much use if blackies were chasing them on price!
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
- Start date
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- Cheshire
Calling the Shetlands culls is perhaps the wrong term. They’d be draft ewes, so only going due to age.
- Location
- Fife
No, they went to my home bred easycare rams, some of which will carry inverdale. All ewe lambs are retained for breeding, and tupped in their first autumn.
Wethers will leave the farm in Oct, either sold store or out on finishing tack, dependent on market conditions and cashflow.
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- Montgomeryshire
Any ewe lambs coming through that might be double Inverdale carriers yet?
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- Fife
Including the scanner there were 5 people there today. I think collectively, the humans had more teeth than the Shetland ewes.
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- Fife
Looks like you were all well fed if nothing else.
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- Fife
If I can do anything, it's graze sheep over winter.
- Location
- JanDeGrootLand
Not regular cast's then. Would you have to pay much more for regular 4 crop cast's, correct or broken mouthed.
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- Fife
They're all sold as correct below. Beyond that, I tell Eric what my budget is and he buys as he sees fit.
It's worked very well for years.
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- Fife
If I did it in the daylight, I couldn't show off how good my bitch is in the dark.
Aspiring Peasants
Member
- Location
- North Pennines
The problem with any contract dipper is you can’t get them without a wait and if you’ve just bought some sheep or just spotted a problem you can’t afford to wait without doing something immediately. Also you need to have a big enough number to make it worthwhile them coming and have good access for a lorry.
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- Fife
Having read that back, did you mean the spread laid on by YM?
I wouldn’t dream of having a standard mobile dip,I’d make a mobile chip pan dipper,trouble is it’s all the bullshît that goes with it that’s the problem,dipping license,disposal license etcOpinions are like arseholes, this group is full of themso with that in mind…
There is currently a gov grant available for a mobile dipping trailer and it’s tempting me. I’ve never been involved in dipping other than once last year after I bought some scratty shite out of everyone’s favourite Cumbrian mart. If I want to broaden my buying options for store lambs then dipping ought to be considered for part of my quarantine procedure
What are the likely costs incurred of doing your own dipping such as courses, licenses, dip disposal fee/license? It sounds like they’re tightening up on dip and disposal so is it just a headache if you’re not already in the job?
What’s your thoughts?
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- North Yorkshire
What’s wrong with the mobile dip trailers? I thought the portequip 1 that came last year was a decent enough thing
Your ewes don’t look badly fed either.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Is 'S' the lucky letter in farming .
Sheep,straw,spuds.
Sheep,straw,spuds.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Is it possible to find out where a herd numbers from online?
Going through last of lambs and lot from one place $h!te. Would like to identify where they come from to avoid buying from them again.
Going through last of lambs and lot from one place $h!te. Would like to identify where they come from to avoid buying from them again.
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- Galloway
You could t race them on scoteid
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- Cheshire
Last load of absolute shite I had, came out of Scotland. Saw the auctioneer at the RHS and told him, he said to ring him with the UK number and he’d tell me where they came from. Another name on the list of “do NOT touch, even if they’re REALLY REALLY REALLY cheap”