Mc115reed's latest activity
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts.I’ll be happy at that .. I’ll bring them home too fatten and finish the whole family if less than £200 -
Mc115reed replied to the thread Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts.2-4 weeks… I don’t really need them gone… but market reports seem too make it look like economic sense…
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts.Going too try some ewes with lambs at foot tomorrow 🫣😬 mules with twins bought them for £152 a head .. had them for 8 weeks on turnips...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Help a man out.Nearly ran myself over in my own truck the other week 🙈😬 forgot I’d left it in drive and got the trailer caught up on a gate, jumped out...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Ewe Hoggs not in lamb.Probably just spat them out at some point and you haven’t seen the bodies lambing hoggs is luck of the draw I wouldn’t really read too...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Treating scab in lambing?.Dipped all my ewes and lambs this year and inlamb ewes, youngest lamb was a week old, oldest was 3 week old.. not a problem at all ...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Does maize ground need a shakerator/subsoiler first?.Some people get carried away for some unknown reason! Iv seen people shakerate, plough, shakerate, power Harrow twice, drill and then...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Lambing staff.That’s the thing I’m weighing up what to do risk wise… Iv culled nearly 100 ewes for not rearing a lamb this year … not a situation I...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Lambing staff.It’s the first year doing it, restrictions on the amount I can lamb indoors has forced me to… although Iv linearly finished the outdoor...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Fully Shepherded cover crop tack.We don’t know it’s crap grass do we it hasn’t even f**king grown yet🤦♂️? Shepherding isn’t free electric fencing is time consuming and...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Fully Shepherded cover crop tack.It’s a shame about the grazing window being so small.. 300 acres in 2 and half months will want 1000-1500 sheep which for somebody local...
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You're all just playing at it, I lamb 500 beltexes before breakfast for a fortnight, calve 20 cows every morning, turn every ewe out...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Lambing staff.You were lucky … I had a student last year and she was terrified of sheep 🤦♂️ was Definatly more hassle than help so I didn’t bother...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Fully Shepherded cover crop tack.Tough one that it’s a large area too get across in a short amount of time 😬 never know where too value summer tack really because it’s a...
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Mc115reed replied to the thread Lambing staff.6500 tack sheep on stubble turnips, 250 indoors in January and then 150 outdoors in April on my own with a girl helping 2/3 days a week
