That’s why they are all shorn and in the shed, plus the only labour is me a couple of days and week. Bloody feet are enough to drive me to drink mind.
Fat lambs in the shed
- Thread starter hilux
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cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Put 500 in shed around 7 years ago...never again would i put them in...foot probs after 2/3 weeks were a night mare....put on fenced ground now with plenty of feeders around...nearly zero foot probs in comparison...and i an talking about a lot of hogs....easy to feed ...no bedding and nothing else but a bit rough grazing...Easy farming
That'll sort the men out from the boys. I bet they will smell your hands at 50 yardsIt’s great fun having 5000 lambs in sheds, people are queuing up to sort all the lame lambs out.
- Location
- West Wales
Like being in a nightclub and you can tell who’s just come out of the parlourThat'll sort the men out from the boys. I bet they will smell your hands at 50 yards
Stw88
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- Location
- Northumberland
I’m very reluctant to put lambs inside…. If I had slats it would be different.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
It’s great fun having 5000 lambs in sheds, people are queuing up to sort all the lame lambs out.
If I had 5000 lambs in sheds I think the penning would be arranged so that they could be run out in mobs to draw for slaughter, and for footbathing/treating.
Anything else would make for damned hard work I should think.
johnspeehs
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- Location
- Co Antrim
We have a lot of bought in stores here and a lot of foot rot comes with them, so do you think the ones with the hoof hanging off would heal better just sprayed with alamycin or just foot bathed and not trimmed? When ytou turn them up its very tempting to tidy the foot up.
- Location
- Cheshire
I always tidy those ones up. Public perception isn’t good if it looks like it’s foot is hanging off…
We just spray them with lincospectum, works a treat, dont bother trimming anything off. Only use terra spray if its scald
- Location
- East Ayrshire
How strong do you make it for spot treatment?
It is one tub per 100 litre of water in a footpath so just scale it down for a hand held sprayer
- Location
- East Ayrshire
Fortunately don't need it very often but that's what I usually do, just wondered if you maybe made it stronger for spot spraying
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
In my experience this is 100% correct. You want stone floors or slats
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I've got 80 in on a stone floor, next to no foot issues. I get someone else to muck it out though!
Not really just put plenty on
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Those lambs that are now motoring….
I had a pure Charollais cull that I pondered taking on Monday (where she’d have been in the pen that made £136/hd), but decided that she’d stand another week without going to far over. Dead on her back in the barn this morning :kickingsheepemoji: (that emoji should be here)
- Location
- Cheshire
I second that. A boot aiming at a sheep upside down with its legs in the air.Those lambs that are now motoring….
I had a pure Charollais cull that I pondered taking on Monday (where she’d have been in the pen that made £136/hd), but decided that she’d stand another week without going to far over. Dead on her back in the barn this morning :kickingsheepemoji: (that emoji should be here)
It would be worn out for me, barstewards this week have died for the shear pleasure of it! I'm so fed up with them I'm look at buying a tractor for something else to do!
- Location
- Cheshire
I’ve certainly had my fill of dead sheep this last 3 weeks. All I need now is my Cheviot mule ewe lambs too set of at it and the whole lot will be for sale!It would be worn out for me, barstewards this week have died for the shear pleasure of it! I'm so fed up with them I'm look at buying a tractor for something else to do!