Recent content by Cmoran

I tend to have bad luck with purebred rams they either get lame and can’t cure or die!! Blue texal I bought as hog last year decided to die in August as did my Milford ram!!all my crossbred Charolais rams seem to last for years bought 3 more blue texal Hogs this year to give them another chance!!

I’m in Galway if I knew best way to go about it we would have a go at it here as I need it for Friday

my merlo p40.7 has a burst pipe inside the boom how do we go about replacing it. It’s the pipe for crowding the head stock do I need genuine pipes or can I just get them made up?tia

I’m not having trouble with fertility it’s more the mix of breeds we run. Suffolk ewes seem to always be raddled first and then the other breeds start to cycle I’m just trying to tighten up the lambing pattern

I’ll be putting 10-12 rams on 300 ewes hopefully need to buy some this week as it’s always last minute around here

After how long though? We always just let them run but fed up spending 3 months lambing!! I’d usually buy 100-200 inlamb ewes in February but going to keep extra over winter this year and not buy in February to try make life easier

I’m letting teaser rams of on Friday to my early lambers for two weeks then putting in breeding rams but was considering pulling the rams again after 2-3 weeks and putting in again in 20th October when ewe lambs and mountainy ewes going to the rams to keep job compact instead of 3 months...

Every lamb that arrives here is injected with ivomec classic and treated with click extra (we use clickzen on forward stores) the day after arrival I find it works well for us most of the store lambs are sold on inside a week to local farmers for wintering the heavier lambs are put into our own...

Ya that’s how I do it aswell the supplier told me it doesn’t need to be exact just mix it up and cover it

Thanks for the replies I’m leaving it whole for the sheep so will add some water I’ll have to borrow a diet feeder as we usually mix it with the loader I can use home and dry if it’s better as I haven’t bought the treatment yet

I always thought it worked better at 20%

I’ve just purchased 30 tons of barley I usually treat it with maximum to feed to lambs but it’s only 15% is that to dry to treat? Or is there other options

Mchale rollers use 3.2mm Steel I was told by Tj Daly who makes replacement rollers using 4mm steel.my fusion 2 has 65000 bales on it and has had one replacement roller so far my fusion 3 has 52000 bales and no roller touched yet

We are very happy with our Massey rake but only used for about 1000 acres so far so early days!!

I have to say I rate my ranger as great in the field it is equally as good as the old pajeros we used to run and way better than the landcruisers and troopers we had. I find if you turn on 4wd going in the field Ive never had a problem