livestock 1
Member
That’s probably my problem we keep leading them in it’s finding places to put them
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livestock 1
Member
I have grass allotments saved but it’s been far too wet to put any newborn lambs in
Today was the first day it was anything like
Bit like most problems at the moment it needed to stop raining
Today was the first day it was anything like
Bit like most problems at the moment it needed to stop raining
muleman
Member
It's a nightmare trying to drop new lambs off if your feeding and ewes chasing you yes
livestock 1
Member
Yes. I could cake them if I lambed later as I would have separate places to drop them off but thereby lies another problem
I suppose that’s answered it without me realising
Grass isn’t lasting long at the moment
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
The frost and freezing north wind is eating more grass than stock here .
livestock 1
Member
We call it kiseney weather
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I call it shyt weather
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
I don’t know about global warming… been starvation today, absolutely Baltic
Yeah that wind is taking the grass.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
It’ll take 2 months of 25 degree unbroken sunshine. You can shove your rain down your flexothanesWill it take some rain to warm things up a bit
livestock 1
Member
It did rain today
kfpben
Member
- Location
- Mid Hampshire
Turn ewes and lambs out after lambing inside. Max flock 100 ewes with twins.
5 days after the last ones are turned out starting caking at 0.5kg/hd. The time lag is really important to prevent mis mothering.
Keep going until the grass really takes off. I don’t cake ewes with singles.
You get bang for your buck caking ewes- more milk and ewes lose condition less. That’s my thinking anyway. My vet tends to agree.,
5 days after the last ones are turned out starting caking at 0.5kg/hd. The time lag is really important to prevent mis mothering.
Keep going until the grass really takes off. I don’t cake ewes with singles.
You get bang for your buck caking ewes- more milk and ewes lose condition less. That’s my thinking anyway. My vet tends to agree.,
If the gulf stream stops owing to global warming it will be much colder
Aspiring Peasants
Member
- Location
- North Pennines
This is what it's about and can vary a lot due to weather. No room for prescriptive systems with the weather
we don't feed ewes after lambing but tempted to feed ewes with twins next year if the weather is crap and grass slow, wish we had this time
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
After reading this I’m off out with a bag of feed in ten minutes 
Skintagain
Member
- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
We turn first lambs out 4 mile away on
Some kinder ground the mums have to be good
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