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That’s what I was thinking, currently have a clamp that’s fed from a chute made of sheeted panels and a gate. Using wooden hurdles and bailer twine as a yard behind, they’re a bitch to drag and twine is a pain, starting to think wooden hurdles should be left in the lambing shed!

Has anyone ever used crowd control barriers (with the legs cut off) as hurdles for sheep handling pens? Are they a low cost option for galvanised metal hurdles with curved corners that can be dragged and clipped together easily?

The rounded weight was off their scales, that is what appears on the statement. According to my scales they lost 1.7kg going 5 miles down the road to the mart (they were penned for an hour and a half prior to weighing and loading at my end, our electronic scales are brand new and were checked...

They give weights to the nearest KG, rounded down as that’s “fair”. Seems a bit backwards to me, would you sell grain or milk rounded down?

Do all Marts round down when taking an average weight for a pen of lambs? If so what is the reason for this? I had a pen in that averaged 41.95kg on the scale and were sold as 41’s? At 230ppkg that’s £2.185 of lamb the buyer has had for free...

Speak to your vet about using sponges and PMSG. I’m in a similar situation work wise. After sponging the ewes and having the tups in for 21 days, with the raddle colour changed after 10 days its gives you a good idea of what’s going to lamb when. I take two separate weeks off work when they are...

Keep your scanner man topped up with tea and biscuits to slow him down, nothing worse than trying to record the results whilst they are racing through a run of ewes!

[emoji106] might have to talk to Farm matters then, our allied weighing head won’t talk to the agrident reader or the software package that we use. How do you find the Farm Matters programme?

Looks like a good setup! Does the reader talk to the tablet at the same time as the weigh head, so you don’t have to do any input?

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I have 12 ewes scanned in lamb at 175% for sale near Northallerton. There are three lleyn shearlings carrying twins. The following are three shears. Three Suffolk X NCM singles, 5 Suffolk X NCM twins and a texel X NCM twin. These ewes were tupped by a texel between the 15 of October and the 15th...

Doesn’t it depend on what your grounds like? If it’s dry well drained land with a good sward of grass in front of them, lightly stocked then get em out. If your tightly stocked on heavy land, with no grass and are going to have to be taking feed out out to them how will it effect the grass...

You will struggle to find anything in roll form that excludes either this year, as PK offers cheep nutrients that look on an analysis and soya is relatively good value when compared to other protein sources, soya also looks good on a ticket and is used as a selling point by many companies. The...