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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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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