- Location
- East Ayrshire
Although unless you have Scottish connections we're unlikely to have the same name lol!
TexX ewes - which Tup to use?
- Thread starter Nithsdale
- Start date
- Location
- West Wales
I was gonna say from Ayrshire your not gonna have a Welsh name…..
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
They actually will, swales are usually great shearing.My shearers will love me!
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Ewes were all fluke dosed, Cobalt bolused and the poorest given a multi vit drench last week. The Beltex tups are out with the TexX ewes too. There's 1 or 2 marked with the crayons already but I'm not convinced they'll be served - the crayon mark is right down on the tail head... think I'll put something else in for a couple weeks when I take the Beltex out for the ewe lambs, just to see if there are any returns
Had the lambs in today so I'm heading to Longtown tomorrow with another 50
Nice lambs, decent size but there will be a few different groups through the ring
Got about 25 fat for Wednesday, too. Thought there'd be more fats amongst them. Been on feed, but not much really. Will need to start pushing what's left to get them growing
Had the lambs in today so I'm heading to Longtown tomorrow with another 50
Nice lambs, decent size but there will be a few different groups through the ring
Got about 25 fat for Wednesday, too. Thought there'd be more fats amongst them. Been on feed, but not much really. Will need to start pushing what's left to get them growing
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
If you creep them in the summer they sort themselves out by this time…
Having grass and water in the summer would have the same effect
Come on, don’t bite that easily…Having grass and water in the summer would have the same effect
- Location
- Scottish Borders
It’s been mixed up here too. Forecast looks decent for next week, maybe I’ll get my last field of straw baled.
But it’s tipping down at the moment!
But it’s tipping down at the moment!
yea lets hope hope for an indian summerIt’s been mixed up here too. Forecast looks decent for next week, maybe I’ll get my last field of straw baled.
But it’s tipping down at the moment!
M-J-G
Member
Weather has been just about ideal here, can't complain, the past 2 months have been a bit dry for grass, but it's been an easy spell for harvest and autumn sowing.
deffo been a strange year with differences in weather
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
That much grass and you're creeping lambs?
I was. They all went by July.
Boydvalley
Member
- Location
- Bath
Good well fleshed creep fed lambs have had £10-15 premium all summer down here with the added bonus their gone. Hasn’t paid for years mind.That much grass and you're creeping lambs?
It’s not a personal dig @Nithsdale Farmer, and I know I’m in the minority on here, but it does always occur to me that it’s the same men in our local Mart who roll their eyes at creep fed lambs in August who are pumping finisher into their lambs in December. Generally, if people are going to feed lambs there is definitely an argument that it’s best done when their feed conversion rates are higher, i.e. when they’re younger.Good well fleshed creep fed lambs have had £10-15 premium all summer down here with the added bonus their gone. Hasn’t paid for years mind.
For us the pures are creeped because we sell ram lambs. We can lamb in late Feb/early March in the numbers we do and turn them out at a day old to grass because of creep.
We creep the crossers because they are born in late March early April, we don’t need them hanging about to compete with the pures, the ewe lambs need to catch up, and we need to wean them younger to try and get the ewes back in sync to be embryo recipients the next year.
Horses for courses - boring but true.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Bit wet here today, so plittered in the shed and built a box for the back of the bike. Been planning to make one for a while, so had gathered up all what I needed already.
Sheet of 18mm Stockboard, some lengths of aluminium angle and a handful countersunk headed stainless bolts and nuts
Skye seems to like it at least
Sheet of 18mm Stockboard, some lengths of aluminium angle and a handful countersunk headed stainless bolts and nuts
Skye seems to like it at least