I think 'advice' in farming will always be necessarily generalisations, or in some cases scientific generalisations, and the farmer will then see how those basics can be applied to his own circumstances, land quantity, land quality, aims, help available, even his/her own personal mindset/temperament, etc, etc.
Glad someone found it useful, apparently it's a book which is now quite difficult to obtain unfortunately (or so I've been told!).
This seems be to an instruction book on how to increase resistance of the farm's worm population to wormers. Eg it say
Well some of us without the intellect of others have to start somewhere.
See above.
I hope you're prolapsed ewe is doing better than mine, I've just had to shoot it
That’s a barsteward!I hope you're prolapsed ewe is doing better than mine, I've just had to shoot it
Ours was bang on time, 2 weeks before due to startThat’s a barsteward!
Ours is up and about ( inside) but I walked in to another this morning, she’s straining like mad , when I got to her it looks and smells like she’s trying to pass a dead lamb
I’ve jabbed her with metacam and antibiotics and she’s doing ok but stinks , she was supposed to be having twins but not for another four weeks!
Bloody sheep
Always happens though
The problem with livestock farming is the 2 things which impact most on performance are out of our control. i.e. weather and sale prices. Feed is the third one but you can affect that by stocking levels, selling store etc.
What sort of money do you get for your lambs, you said before that you sell to one person (if I remember correct) are they reaching there true market value.
Flail topper checks the gras and in my opinion is worse for seeding weeds like docks andthistles. Rotary topper may be a bit better. I, somewhere have a copy of a trial by North College of Ag. and they tried every way to not say that a finger bar mower topped grass was a week or so ahead on regrowth, but the yield figures showed it.
Average £65 across them all ie bigs and smaller ones , this last year we were told by a few folk that they were the best lambs we had produced ( all go stores not fat)
Stands to reason, finger bar will cut in a scissor action, like an animal bite, rather than thrash it like any swinging blade.
Rams are a mix of Cheviot from a lad we have bought from for a few years, mainly bought because they give us a lamb ! And at the end of the season have held condition rather than melting away
Doesn’t seem very high, but obviously haven’t seen the sheep.Average £65 across them all ie bigs and smaller ones , this last year we were told by a few folk that they were the best lambs we had produced ( all go stores not fat)
Bigger ones went at £80 which I was ok with, lad was telling me he sent some fat for 120 recently, then said they had put £30 of provin in them
Texels they ain’t , I was looking at our hoggs yesterday and thought , they look small!
