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    Beulah Speckled Sheep

    Ran a flock of around 50 nz Romneys, but bought some Beulah draft ewes to run on some rough ground, very good sheep they out performed the Romneys,more lambs away earlier and smaller ewes that eat less. had 2 crops of lambs out of most of them and when I sold the ewes as culls they fetched more...
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    Cheviot Mule vs NofE Mule

    Looking to get some Cheviot mules our self.. what system do you run out of interest ?
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    Shearing Trailers

    That’s true, trouble is most of jobs are upto 300 And it’s unbraked chassis it’ll be going on
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    Shearing Trailers

    Looks ideal job! Would like to build one myself over winter, just a single stand one to fit on small trailer chassis… is it too cheeky to ask for some measurements please ?
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    Scanning 2021

    Couldn’t agree more Turn up to job after being pestered for a week with scummy sheep that aren’t ready to do because farmer couldn’t be bothered to get them in the pen
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    Scanning 2021

    The job should be done to the best standard, but Price work doesn’t work when your talking and hanging (costing the shearer/scanner money) about waiting for a full race or farmer getting sheep in. With price work there is no whole time it’s price per , so if you wanted them to take their time...
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    Recomend me a lamb weigh crate

    Looks a Tidy piece of kit what race do you have? would it work inside a prattley race? Would you have a pictures of it in action you could share ?
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    Recomend me a lamb weigh crate

    Tidy piece of kit how well does it work with smaller lambs say 8 week old ? would it work inside a prattley race? Would you have a pictures of it in action you could share please??
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    Sheep winter housing

    Seems reasonable would cost nearly double in straw working on what’s been discussed further up the thread. Would that price include the beams? What sort of distance can the beams span without being propped in the middle?
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    Sheep winter housing

    that’s it that’s what we’ve used them for and while they’re on tack as a top up. But if they were housed they would have haylage fed every day so no reason why they couldn’t have rolls instead of feed blocks
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    Sheep winter housing

    Our scanning is not overly amazing around 150%mark as run hill type ewes and when out wintering just tend to give them feed blocks and haylage, they seem to do ok, as trying to stay as close to a forage based system
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    Sheep winter housing

    @Nithsdale Farmer Haven’t looked into slats although that sounds like a good option. it’s a tenanted farm on a short term tenancy so looking at low investment... @MDL POWERUP are slats easy to install on level type one barn floors? And would there be a market for the slats if we were to loose...
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    Sheep winter housing

    Morning all, just working out plans for winter grazing this year, a bit a head but nice to know what options we have. in a moderate winter our ground is completely saturated from January - March, we have an abundance of sheds so are toying with the ideas of winter housing our ewes from couple of...
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    Meatlinc ram over white faced welsh ewes

    @neilo probably all go through the market, in short just want an easy lambing tup fast growth And lambs to look of better carcass quality than welsh.. meatLincs look fairly similar to a Charolais anyway. Might be better to use a pure and hope for some hybrid vigour
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    Meatlinc ram over white faced welsh ewes

    sounds like ideal tup then what ewes do you and your neighbour run?
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