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Don't think we'll be that high for losses since scanning but we had too many empties at scanning, think we'd loose a fair few lambs between christmas and scanning. Not gonna try to work out what % we might have lost, think folk get too hung up about it, it can't be good for mental health. I just...

Later in the year when the sun is shining and we're getting a fiver more than we did 20 years ago we'll all think sheep are great and what happened in April will be a distant memory

Think if you requested for them to come out then they should come, could be any number of reasons why you couldn't take it to them

I put a fleece or two in the footbath to take the shine off the water and lambs go through no bother. Stops it splashing a bit and cheaper than straw, think I got the idea from someone on here

We keep our younger empties, cost nowt to keep them around till next tupping time when you can just turn them out onto the fell, usually sell older empties first opportunity after scanning but still got them this time, didn't realise how long meat withdrawal was on supaverm and I'd just dosed...

The first bit of that film at Birkdale is on the other side of our fell, 6 miles from our house but over an hour to get there by road via Brough and Middleton, we gather sheep to there 3 times a year, think its one of the most isolated farms in England, remember the first time I went there...

We were told is goes in 5 year cycles, maybe should sell up after next lambing time

We had campy about 7 or 8 years ago, had 40 sheep abort before we got a live lamb, folk kept saying it settle when we got properly into lambing but it never did, like you, we'd have 100+ abort, soul destroying, but then nowt the year after, think they get a bit of immunity for a few years

Ffs, what's wrong with people, I'd loose my temper with folk like that, glad I live where I do and don't have to put up with neighbours like that

Well they seem to do well enough when they get back on the fell for the summer and we get plenty of repeat customers for our lambs and draft yows

Nowt like 200%, pures around 115-120%, swales breeding mules usually around 150% which is enough for our Ground, fed on haylage, cake and molasses, just the same as if they were outside. There's usually someone in the shed most of the time through the day, up till about 6 at night then I'll...

Well I must be wrong the head then because our swales are housed usually from mid January until lambing in April. Never really understood the comment, "your sheep will go wooden if they're in that long" it's the tenth year we've done it and in a year like this they are far more settled and...

Surely 5 sheep left to lamb doesn't stop you popping out for a pint does it? What happens at night time, does someone have to stay up with these 5 sheep in case one lambs?

I've done that with 2 or 3, seems to work as well as anything, might start doing any triplets as they're born, they seem to be the problem ones

Just getting a start here, mebe up to 100 lambs, haven't turned any out today, glad I put jackets on the ones I turned out yesterday