dont think i couldve made one that quick
Docking chute and iron
- Thread starter CopperBeech
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CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Anyone sensible looking for a couple of days tailing work week after next in Shropshire ?
- Location
- Scottish Borders
Set the sliding bolt beside the v of vetmarker right to the top for 20 ml if you are using the fly spray. It works very well. And don’t pansy about lowering the lambs if you are. The spray works best if you give the lever a right pull !
What are the advantages of doing tail docking this way? Seems to me a lot of back breaking work getting sheep in and manually catching every lamb lifting it onto these cutes. We only lamb 200 ewe lambs outside but my brother pops round and puts rings on them twice a day at lambing on his own and there’s less stress on the lambs or ewes. Our ewes are lambed in doors in feb
- Location
- Scottish Borders
All outdoors here. Used to just ring at a day old, but I was spending most of my days chasing lambs about, and sometimes the new smell of shyte off my leggings / spray caused rejections. As a 1 man show here , I now observe, and intervene with the ones needing a hand etc. Pens set up the other day, my 2 neighbours, my 2 kids set sail and actually was really nice to have a bit of craic with them. 2 mobs of 220 ewes n lambs rung/fly/worm/vit.
Then a beer and a bacon roll !
Community spirit at its best!
Then a beer and a bacon roll !
Community spirit at its best!
BELOWAVERAGE
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Wish I wasn't so old, would of enjoyed that.
hilux
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- Location
- south Wales
All set up and ready for action.
PM’d you
I know where your coming from but I wasn’t thinking of me!He said sensible.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I'm somewhere inbetween. Ring the singles as I go, plus any that come inside, but tail the twins after lambing. I have enough chasing after lambs tagging up the recorded Easycares! If I was lambing bigger numbers of commercial ewes outside I would certainly be tailing later.
I takes seconds to ring and mark lambs. People to seem to like to make a job that they can buy a special bit of kit for.
Ditto
cubby
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- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
Brilliant bit of kit lambs slide in easy no wriggling and they stay calm we are contractors too so often away from home . Local scanning contractor has set up a tailing crew we done 680 ewes and 1000 lambs with 4 shifts in 7 hrs balls heptivac hot iron tail worm and minerals sheep work done and free to be away next day knowing everything is up to date
roseshep
Member
Sorry, managed to borrow one in the end.
Going to have to invest in our own one though next year!
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Anyone for Hertfordshire Sunday?
Will get back to folk ASAP re Shropshire
Will get back to folk ASAP re Shropshire
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
I takes seconds to ring and mark lambs. People to seem to like to make a job that they can buy a special bit of kit for.
Ringing in the field doesn’t suit certain systems. Different people do different things.
Ringing in the field doesn’t suit certain systems. Different people do different things.
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Don’t know why that went weird
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Each to their own. I certainly can't justify a chute for what I have to do. A young lad comes for the day, set the Rappa system up a couple of times and off we go.
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
I’m looking to use a chute this year for doing lambs but will be begging, stealing or borrowing one until I find out how things go.
I lamb inside but this year I didn’t do anything to the lambs other than number at turnout. It meant that
Lambs could go out 12-24 sooner
Less losses due to miss mothering
Less issues with joint ill
Less antibiotic use
Less stress in the lambing shed
Lambs have to be handled in the next week or so for clostridial vaccinating anyway and a chute will be easier for that job, think mini combiclamp
Work with a couple of neighbours to do the job, community spirit and a bit of craic
I lamb inside but this year I didn’t do anything to the lambs other than number at turnout. It meant that
Lambs could go out 12-24 sooner
Less losses due to miss mothering
Less issues with joint ill
Less antibiotic use
Less stress in the lambing shed
Lambs have to be handled in the next week or so for clostridial vaccinating anyway and a chute will be easier for that job, think mini combiclamp
Work with a couple of neighbours to do the job, community spirit and a bit of craic