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    Meatlinc sheep

    Time will tell how they do
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    Meatlinc sheep

    We have 3 here goin onto mule and easycare ewes suit us well lambing mid February indoors and mid march outside they do both well our main thing is getting lambs on the ground and getting them away asap with the hope to have most of our lambs away finished before the rams go out again! This is...
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    Any ideas for minerals?

    We have blood tested our ewes and have came back with mega high levels of iodine and low levels of selenium vet has advised that we jag all lambs at birth with selenium/vit e ewes have been bolused with mayo 4 in 1! Any other suggestions to get Sel into them before lambing without to much...
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    MF776X tedder

    We have the malone well built and heavier than the Mf and the wee bit of extra width makes a difference when kicking out behind some bigger mowers
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    Eid readers

    Thanks for your help bit the bullet yesterday and have ordered the apr 450 and the select software so time will tell how it goes 🤞🤞
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    Width of slatted pen?

    Personally I don’t like too deep a pen I think 15/16ft is plenty I’m sure somebody will tell me I’m wrong lol. We rubbered a few pens a couple of years ago and are really well pleased with it and will do more cattle are far more content and comfortable and far less slipping and sliding
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    Eid readers

    Thanks for the feedback do you have the clip on wand to use it as a stick reader? Also do u lamb indoors or out? Is it much work recording at birth as we’re wanting to move to more outdoors
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    Eid readers

    I think the time has come to try and move forward with our sheep to try and improve our recording have been looking online and see the Agri dent apr600 with TGM software look best to suit our needs but with absolutely no experience of these things any advice is appreciated! What we want to be...
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    ZEUS BALE WRAP

    We’ve used Zeus epic 5 for the past 4 years never used anything else to compare don’t see much wrong with it
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    Fattening suckler cows

    We start feeding our April/may calved cows at about mid July with the calves on and creep feed calves as well then start drawing cows from mid September leaving the calves with the rest of the cows and they never seem bothered that there cows are away we just slip a few cows away every week and...
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    Sheep feeding barriers

    Apologies if this has been discussed before what is the minimum height in lamb ewes need to feed over? have cattle feed barriers with 2 9x3 timbers below was thinking if 1 was lifted out that 9 inches would have been okay but when I see it it looks very low has anybody got away with it before...
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    Sheep Scanning

    104 mules 193% 2 empty 20 single 65 twins 17 triplets Happy enough back abit from normal to many singles but there’s 47 hoggets in them so happy enough
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    Weaning spring born calfs.

    We just start and shut the calves in the creep every morning and leave them in longer each day over a couple of weeks this makes sure the calves are all eating well enough then some day just don’t let them back in seems to work for us and the calves arnt that bothered when they are shut out but...
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    Good cheap tractor and finance

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    Stabilisers feet

    That’s the thing we wouldn’t have had a lot of issues before when we were a mixture of breeds mostly Lims
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