- Location
- Fife
Shetlands are so efficient they're self culling. Cünt if a thing.
Scanned twins as well.
Scanned twins as well.
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
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It’s that time of year unfortunately
- Location
- Scot Borders
Someone sent me a pic of them planting tattles at Anstruther at the weekend. looked like the prairies. All the while my quad bike bogged in the turnip field ………againIt’s fife , there are no hills . Just gentle slopes and shade under the palm trees!
- Location
- Fife
My heather hill has snow on it today.Someone sent me a pic of them planting tattles at Anstruther at the weekend. looked like the prairies. All the while my quad bike bogged in the turnip field ………again
It's a hard life being a Scottish hill farmer. Just as well we're tough
First ewe dead with mag this morning. Got it going into food in the load coming today. Bloody sheep.
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We get it in the cake but I feel there’s not much in it. DB mineral buckets might help or some other ones
- Location
- central scotland
Going to try a mag bolus to the ewes this time , the buckets help but just not enough , never used to get that much bother ….maybe should change back to mag lime but feel the calcium lime is helping the clay land better
- Location
- central scotland
Make my day a ewe dead with staggers
Some hay to bind them up can help with magnesium if nothing else works. I couldn't get some ewes to eat cake one year because there was enough grass they preferred and it was a big bunch with very little lambs to be gathering up to bolus. Dad said to try some hay and it worked. They didn't eat a hell of a lot after the first few days but it did stop me having to go round jabbing them.
They got buckets.
I don’t think they last very long and are quite dear.Going to try a mag bolus to the ewes this time , the buckets help but just not enough , never used to get that much bother ….maybe should change back to mag lime but feel the calcium lime is helping the clay land better
- Location
- central scotland
Aye they’re dear ok hopefully get 3 weeks cover if I don’t try I won’t know
I tried them on a bunch going onto seeds, never lost any.Aye they’re dear ok hopefully get 3 weeks cover if I don’t try I won’t know
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
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About this simce you posted it and i agree with you , im getting my farm sampled now .
Food for thought right there ! Ive been thinking
About this simce you posted it and i agree with you , im getting my farm sampled now .
- Location
- Cheshire
FACKKKKK! bloody ringwomb in one of the share farm ewes! 
can just about feel the lambs moving. Oh well, first time I’ve ever sent for the vet to do a section on a ewe
can just about feel the lambs moving. Oh well, first time I’ve ever sent for the vet to do a section on a eweNot enough cake, need at least double that
- Location
- Cheshire
My apologies, typed wrong. That should say each end of the day.
Think our busiest day was a couple of years ago one easter Sunday. We'd been fairly quiet and our assistant asked on the Saturday night if she could have the Sunday off so we agreed so was just me and the Mrs. We counted 430 left to lamb on the Saturday night, when our assistant came back on the Monday morning there was less than 300 left, we knew we were busy but just knuckled down and got on with it, was surprised when we counted up on Monday
That sounds better
- Location
- North of Perth
Not good.ive had better results with sections on sheep than I have with cowsFACKKKKK! bloody ringwomb in one of the share farm ewes!