Exactly this point. I put this to Nature Scotland and NFUS. My words were actually my hands are tied if I do nothing about the ravens I will be locked up for cruelty by letting them attack my stock but if I shoot them I will will be locked up for shooting a raven that's ripping my livestock to...
Well that's the problem you see with holding the rifle both my hands are being used so can't even count on my fingers. I do think licences need to be applied for tho just so they know how big an issue they are and I think it is all the extra woodland that's been planted is the cause of more and...
I need to know this as well. I have never had a raven problem before but this year for 5 days was hell lost over 20 lambs and had to shoot 3 ewes due to them ripping there lamb beds out as they lambed and dozens of ewes with peck damage to there faces and half a dozen eyes taken out.
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I am still working with it. Does your tractor have a front PTO as well?? As mine does and if I switch it on while trying to get the back one on it normally starts the back one up as well.
It is a website. I am lucky I have 4g covering the whole farm sow works everywhere for me. But in the very near future there is an app coming as well. I have seen a prototype of it and it will be accessible offline
You are probably right I should not need to do it every year but the fear of an orf break down is to big a risk to me and basically it is an insurance policy I am using the vaccine as.
Totally agree with you that they need to build up a resistance and that why we use the vaccine as it is a live vaccine so is building the resistance into the flock to protect them as well.
Open any browser on your phone and got to farmmatters.net which take you to a login page and then you need to setup a profile on the software and make your user name and password there and it gives you access to all your records on your phone and let's you input your data
There is a farm matter web app which you do have to access through a web browser but it allows you to record births, deaths and alot of other details through your phone
See below screen shots all taken off. My phone
I use it daily
We have done the ewes pre lambing for years and have never scratched a lamb and have never had an issue with orf before. I have seen maybe a handful of lambs in all those years with orf but I have put them down to a ewe being missed or not done properly and when I say a handful I am talking...
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