Recent content by sheepwise

Aye was just thinking that tonight. Within 24 hours when a ewe with twins moves away from you there is always one lamb either side of her and the lambs never change sides.

Yes we are very pleased with our Logie cross ewes. Tremendous mothers producing very saleable lambs.

Lairg Cheviot 5 crop ewe with newly dropped Logie lambs

Cows and calves been out since calving mid March. Pleased with how they’ve done considering weather the’ve endured.

Going to lamb everything in January next year to try and catch the good weather!

My last two went to Highland Meats.

That will be one way to knock the milk off them, if weather doesn't play ball.

He's a bit of a mental health therapist around these parts at the moment. Folk are coming in at night after a bad day at the lambing. They then watch Cammy and realise that it's possible for someone to have had a worse day than themselves.

AP ?

Whereabouts in Ayrshire were you?

The boss said in spec!

So you've gone to all the bother/risk of calving and keeping the cow and got the store animal through the difficult bit to the end of the winter. It's now ready to graze and finish with all that compensatory growth potential and you start to worry it might now die. By mid summer on good grass...

So what about the 02, O3 and R2s ? As outwintered cattle, they would have made a serious premium in the store ring. All the potential they had to finish cheaply on grass has been lost by killing them before they were anywhere near finished. Sorry but that's my take on it.

Not trying to be smart but you would have been far better selling those as stores. They are nowhere near finished.

So what's your theory for having the cattle outwintered and the sheep in. Wouldn't the logical thing be to finish your cattle inside and have the sheep out on root crops and hoppers if need be?