Recent content by dunk999

Are cull cows holding up this week?

I fully get your point livestock1 maybe not ideal, but maybe if more of us stood up for ourselves and others in the industry once in a while, and made these "none jobs" realise us lads, deserve a bit more gratitude and that they only have a job criticising and pointing the finger because we put...

It's strange how I have grown to feel I knew your Father and farm from following his annual antics on TFF. A courageous, tough guy with a huge heart. Society should take a leaf from his book hard working and determined. Life is fu##ing sh!t sometimes chin up lass he thought the world of ya!!

A is best feed their I hate seeing palm kernal on a label.

I had 12 ewes 11 years ago even after footvaxing they were consistently lame. I had them on a bare piece of almost hill ground that seemed to help but as soon as they even sniffed green grass the feet heated up again. Oh and had to clip rugs off their backs also.

Needs to be minimum £5.35/kg to allign with live today.

Excess/ unwanted ewe hoggs from the scottish upland sheep support scheme can be killed after 31st March that may give a short term flush of lambs for slaughter for a week or two.

I'd go for an old 4wheel drive tractor with diff lock nothing hefty 60hp zetor pick one up £3-4k. Trucks are fine but when they go down they're down. If you're hell bent on a truck then i'd look for a 2.8 swb pajero they have 4 wheel lock on them and not too heavy.

THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Friday 31st July 2020) Sold 1,637 Breeding Gimmers and Ewes and Store Lambs. Breeding Gimmers (789) sold to £420. Breeding Ewes (309) sold to £180. Store Lambs (539) to £86. THAINSTONE, Aberdeen and Northern Marts (Friday 31st July 2020) Sold 1,637...

How come you haven't sown it sooner the rape would outcompete the grass if it gets the headstart?

How do any of your neighbours sheep perform in relation to you're own? Do they run the same breed or similar? Sometimes the land will dictate the growth rates and reading to much farmers weekly can lead to high expectations.

Sounds like a grand response you got!! No questions about that.

I don't suppose you have before and after bolus/trace element drench photos or weight records from when you found out you had a problem?

Have you bolused along with the top up mineral drench? Lambs look decent to me what weights are some of those ram lambs?