Don’t they say 2% slip and you should look into it, i would be very worried if that many did.
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
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livestock 1
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Probably only half a dozen but I have a couple of weeks to go
5 a day and we are motoring here
How are they milking? Mine came in late and although in good order and lambs are a good size, they are not as milky as I would like.
livestock 1
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@unlacedgecko I didn’t know you moved bales ?
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- Fife
How offensive.
People locally look at me funny because I insist on strapping every bale I put in the flat bed here.
People look at you funny because you wear shorts, in fife, in winter & don't appear to be related to your partner or addicted to smack.
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- Cheshire
Well so far, the first one to lamb has earnt a cull tag by having bugger all milk but being fat herself, and the other 4 so far are milking well with twins on. Just had one lamb, second was coming head first. Quick rearrange and she’s got 2 cracking lambs on her now. Plenty of milk. So I’m hoping the first one was just a general dick and the rest are the norm. Got 3 Cheviot mules not just milking how they should be. But they are just lean enough for my liking. The weather really has made a balls of my ewes this time. Good Haylage, Mollasses, SF carrots and just over a lb of 18% nuts a day and there are still too many of them that aren’t like house sides.
Constant wet has been hard on them. Most are OK but a percentage have slipped. I have had this acidosis/ twin lamb problem which is making me nervous of pushing the cake too hard. Had they been housed earlier the cake would have been stepped up rather than straight in and on a full ration. 
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- Yorkshire
All this getting up checking cows through the night why don't you just take the bull out of a night
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- Fife
That's what I do with the rams. Seems to work wellAll this getting up checking cows through the night why don't you just take the bull out of a night
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- Yorkshire
Is it a cullable offence lambing in the night?That's what I do with the rams. Seems to work well
Rich_ard
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Not when you see a Shetland running up the hill with 2 full lambs close behind as you go out.
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- Yorkshire
What if it's not your hill?
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- Fife
Rearing 2 lambs with zero feed cost. Very efficient.
It's the future of lamb production.
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- Yorkshire
Only if you get the lambs back to sell
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- Montgomeryshire
It needs something like a gram of infected cat poo to infect about a million sheep iirc.
If that gram was in a lorry load of grain that went into a feed mill, the infection might well be coming out of a bought in bag, just as much as closer to home.
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- Scottish Borders
It’s fife , there are no hills . Just gentle slopes and shade under the palm trees
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Rich_ard
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Won't see it again then
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- Fife
Slander.It’s fife , there are no hills . Just gentle slopes and shade under the palm trees