- Location
- Cheshire
Middle draw, I left his bottom pen, there were a couple of bad sorts in them
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
That’s my jobI don’t mind dipping sheep as long as you can keep the sheep coming to the dipper, I’m the one doing the dipping though, pushing them up if they don’t want to go is a cxnt of a job
- Location
- Cheshire
Bucket on a string?
Well if the cap fitsThat’s my job
- Location
- Cheshire
They may well have been. Hence I don’t buy blackie lambs out of the Cally anymore. I’ve had bunches that a couple die, but not like these.
Monkey on a rope
- Location
- Cheshire
That’s not a nice way to describe our KidMonkey on a rope
- Location
- Isle of Skye
Any ideas as to the cause? I kinda feel sorry for the seller whoever he was, when selling store lambs you genuinely want them to go and do well for somebody. He's maybe going to be losing bidders and not understand why.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Spent too long listening to the Cheshire expert finisher that his short arm syndrome must be catchingNot the way you’ve been titting about not buying sheep this time it won’t…
- Location
- Cheshire
we dosed and bolused them for absolutely everything. They just kept fading away, usually a B12/cobalt bolus and drench sorts them little blackies at doing that. But these were special
- Location
- North Yorkshire
- Location
- Cheshire
Funnily enough I was warned about blackies out of the Cally, but I was having them out of UA and off the West coast and not really struggling with them. I thought it was just folk talking. Then I found otherwise
- Location
- Cheshire
I mean the 10kg half miceAren’t they all little at your place
- Location
- Cheshire
I sold some at 42kg last week you know! Just think, I’ve fed them buggers an extra 6kg more than I needed too once again my profit margin is down to pennies
once again my profit margin is down to pennies
- Location
- North Yorkshire
How much did you rob that beltex for? It’ll have been your best paying lamb all yearI sold some at 42kg last week you know! Just think, I’ve fed them buggers an extra 6kg more than I needed too
- Location
- Cheshire
That was homebred of a Cheviot mule Hogg. He was worth the wait!
- Location
- Isle of Skye
Just remembering a bumper crop of lambs one year at a place here, not great lambs but plenty of them, much higher survival rates than usual and them then going on to be the worst year of them for the guy finishing them, not as bad as yours but plenty deaths and just not doing. I guess a continuation of the 'levelling out' that does seem to happen, the result always ends up about the same every year from every farm regardless of how good or bad it seems to be going early on.
- Location
- North of Perth
You want to see some of the stuff on a fat day
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Have you ever used a cage dipper? It really is an eye opener compared to persuading them to jump into a bath of water.
If I was putting a dip in, it would be a cage dipper built into the yard (or on the back of a trailer if I was scattered about.
It makes a miserable job a lot easier.
Local contractor has a cage dipper and reckons to be able to put 2000+ a day through it.