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I would say cut. It looks to clean to be a natural brake. But with the section that only the bottom 2 wires where cut, perhaps they got spooked or broke their nippers in the process.

That was a dry year.

Ewes with two week old lambs. This is a Italian with north African genetics. It is a high sugar grass and a tetraploid. Planted in September of 2023. In a grazing situation it will produce 10t/DM/A on sandy soil with a Ph of 6. In a couple of weeks it will be growing 3" a day. What will be...

While the animal is relatively calm, have a look at its lower eyelid on either eye. If pale, I would suspect hypoproteinaemia. Eyelids should be bright red. I will also mention that in regards to Haemonchosis it is possible to have a clean fecal while at the same time the animal has a gut full...

Johnes (Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis) or just MAP and TB (M. Bovis) are spread in fluids. Fluids include aerosols. They are in the same family of Mycobacterium. To answer your question I would assume it is possible to transfer Mycobacterium Bovis to the new lamb this way...

Goiter should be further back at the tail end of the jaw. To me that looks like hypoproteinaemia. Liver flukes and Haemonchosis would be suspect. Also copper (both low and high levels), Johnes and other mineral imbalances.

Setting a brake for the early lambers. Lambing is suppose to start 7 days from now, yet 60 ewes have had lambs. Those little f**kers. The weather has been mixed with a little bit of everything except snow. Average night time temps are around 40F. Soil temp is trying to get to 50F but we have...

Infrastructure makes that possible along with lower stocking density. Greg has permanent HT parameter that the single strand in connected on. If they get out of the cell, they should not make it where they should not be. He also uses LGD and lives in a rural area where there not many people...

With Sheep/Lambs we call this drift lambing. In general this system works under management and genetic selection. Both beast and forage genetics need to be selected for the environment in which they operate. The management part comes in to play when the manager keeps temperament of the beast in...

Trying to get setup for lambing and it starts before I am ready.

To this day I have not been able to come up with a reasonable answer why anyone uses Facebook at all.

Cool. Post a pict of that when it happens.

Teachers have their ways.

That is a great seed bed your tool is leaving you.

Yes. By all means...sheep first. Depending on the type of Salmonella and the environment it can last a few months on pasture. So 30 day rotations are not risk free of Salmonella after the chickens have been over it.