We just sorted utter chaos out as the students arrived, left them to hold the fort as we dashed for some more hurdles, iodine and all the other things we should have had ,via a sneaky Greggs
Got back to a few more lambs followed by a triple with the first coming backwards with the second...
I was reading an old thread about watery mouth , “featuring Bovine”
It was shall we say decisive 😂
meanwhile.. the jabbed or drenched lambs are up and bright this morning
It’s chaos in here already , as soon as I pen a new ewe/ lamb , another appears
One of the vet students tried to say we should tube it, no I said it’s cold and watery , heat lamp first , she is good and keen but google isn’t always the answer, every little thing she googles , I think she must have found an American small holders site that said tube it
I tried to be polite...
My son was here today so I sent him off to one of the sheds with one of the students, to grab a buggy full of small bales and a look over the moor ewes, fortunately I said leave the buggy on the track and walk round the sheep, even on the top fields he said it was saturated, while they did that...
In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ?
lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo
I see what you mean, it’s a complicated hodgepodge for sure.
Bps is decisive, sfi more so to a hill farmer.
Rightly or wrongly, I feel that our efforts in using little if any herbicides, zero ( so far) artificial fert, working on upland grass is being dropped, while arable can claim big bucks...
We had a really slow start , put 10 ewes and lambs out in sunshine the other day, yesterday was manic, pens all but full now
Seems never ending this rain
We were / are similar, sda and moor , £151 hectare for the sda in mid tier
That’s ok by me IF it was a level playing field, not £700 or whatever for bird seed
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