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    Joint Ill - Lambs

    As much as it’s aPITA and you need a good catch dog 5 consecutive days of Synulox can have good affect although sadly there will always be some who can run like hell after but then relapse It’s a sole destroyer
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    tagging at lambing for tracking performance.

    That part is done via Border Software so we Flag tag the ewes link that flag tag to the EID then lifetime ID-the APR just asks for visual flag tag
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    tagging at lambing for tracking performance.

    We use APR 600 data logger which is the hand held then Border Software-I’m a complete techno phobe but the APR is user friendly-the advantage of Border Software is Martin will tailor the program and interrupt the data to what you need
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    Joint Ill - Lambs

    Also another vaccine which can’t be used if the ewes have had Footvax as the carrier reactions are similar to Cydectin and Footvax
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    Grazing turnips upto lambing.

    How close to lambing have you kept them on the turnips Tim?
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    Lambing 8 Week Weights without birth weights

    If you are looking to improve the performance of your ewe flock then surely you will have to link lambs to ewes Yes it’s tedious but only way to make significant gains in a closed flock
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    It’s the one piece tag-we only use the pre printed ones and once linked to the animal EID nothing else to do!
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    Since we started recording we have lifted scanning by 30%-8 week weight by 14%-twinning to 70%~in a closed flock it’s about identifying the bottom third and these go to a terminal sire -I couldn’t afford to just cull them but managing the bottom end lifts the whole flock output
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    I was sceptical about them but genuinely loose less than 2%
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    Lambs are tagged at birth with Shearwell tags
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    Yes the EID is linked to the management tag-only have to do this once rather than every year if you spray a management number The retention on the Zee tags is brilliant loose less than 2%-we use Border Software to analyse
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    Lambing Outside and Recording Lambs Simply?

    We record 1000 ewes lambing outside-Romney/Highlanders-the must I think is a Zee tag management tag-put in all shearlings as they enter the flock which stays with that ewe as her ID-very easy to read We use an Agrident 6 reader-all I want to be doing is recording information not viewing it at...
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    Fodder beet growing advice...

    No problem I’m sure stronger ground would yield more but even in the wettest spells we can keep grazing
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    Fodder beet growing advice...

    Agree regarding agronomy-I’ll a simple sheep farmer so leave the growing decisions to my excellent arable neighbour The other thing we have found is to have a whole feed face length for run back -we run 800 ewes in a mob and going through a gate way onto run back even on chalk is carnage.We...
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