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Last year we had one lamb with this case that didn' t make it and this year we have one again and another with less symptoms but the same : about 3 weeks old, the lamb get stiff in the back legs, makes a hump and moves the stiff back legs only when walking slowly - when it runs, it lifts up the...

We have EasyCare-Sheep originally from Iolo Owens Flock and keep them on our arable farm on very good fodder, basically it`s either pure italian ryegrass which we grow for grasseed production or it`s any kind of covercrop over winter, so all highly palatable and energy-rich. Problem is, not only...

I`m trying to optimize my mix sown as a covercrop after cereal harvest to fatten lambs on during autumn and early winter. To add diversity and have another legume fixing N, I find Lupins interesting, for soil health also. But: what about lupinosis ?? Does anybody know or ideally do graze lambs...

Had just sold some late ram lambs to my local abattoir and got a really bad feedback because their fat turned yellow shortly after slaughtering, see picture !?! That`s totally unbelievable to me as we`ve already butchered far more lambs this winter directly for consumers or sold to my local...

I would like to try and mix some either redclover or lucerne with my winter cereals-drilling this autumn, preferrably with winter barley. Idea is to have a double-crop, either combine the barley and chop all straw if the legume is not so much or stripper header off the barley and mow and bale...

I would like to try and mix some either redclover or lucerne with my winter cereals-drilling this autumn, preferrably with winter barley. Idea is to have a double-crop, either combine the barley and chop all straw if the legume is not so much or stripper header off the barley and mow and bale...

I want to add spring cereals and grass-seed to my rotation for building fertility and want to undersow one spring cereal with clover with the aim to graze with sheep in autumn/winter and as a good break and forecrop for the next spring cereal undersown with the grass for the next two years...

Would it make life easier with a round bale feeder like this and feed pre-cut round bales ?? The spacing of the inner ring is 5.5 cm below and 8 cm on top and I`m thinking about if it would be much easier for the ewes to eat the hay and therefor far less wastage and what falls down can be...

I have some heifers from my neighbour for summer grazing on my permanent pasture since many years. As I started with some wool-shedding Easycare sheep now, I had them grazing there this spring before the cows came in. My neighbour was shocked when he brought his cows and saw all the pieces of...

As an experiment I drilled winter barley into stripper headed oats and as the golden rule says, did it 2 weeks earlier than tilled. Weather kept hot, so the seedlings just grew away and I spotted several slugs and stupidly thought I could tolerate them as they can have some leaves which could...

What if I undersow winter barley or spring oats with some grass&clover or whatever, combine that with the stripper header, give it some fertilizer after harvest and graze the undersown stuff in autumn and winter and stick a spring crop in next ?? Would save me the job on my avatar and give me...

Had already posted in the "Buildings & Infrastructure" section with little response: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/shed-design-as-grain-store-and-for-sheep.145774/ Hopefully here are more with ideas about that (I post it in the "Livestock&Forage" section as well now...), I...

Had already posted in the "Buildings & Infrastructure" section with little response: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/shed-design-as-grain-store-and-for-sheep.145774/ Hopefully here are more with ideas about that (I post it in the "Cropping" section as well now...), I really just...

I need to improve my harvest logistics, don`t have own store by now but with further increasing combine capacity the logistics to get it from field to merchants store is becoming an expensive challenge. Own store to get it in within short distance, to dry it and sell it by christmas the latest...

My osr is well developed so far and got Tebuconazol 2 weeks ago which is clearly visible in the untreated patch I left for a little trial : instead of spraying fungicides let some sheep graze it down for more frost resistance and as PGR. Has anybody experience or any idea when to do it best ...

Has anybody an old but functioning GSD4-screen for sale ??

I found one spot (from the street visible) in my beans where the plants turn yellow and obviously die. My agronomist told me that might be nano-virus which is pretty new in germany but already known in france. The roots and nodules die off and therefore the whole plant just dies in spots of 1 to...

In 2005 I visited cereals and remember a small manufacturer showing a model of a very simple mechanical built grain stirrer, running on rails for square grain boxes. If I remember it right, the auger was driven by an electric motor and alle the moving on the rails up and down and sideways was...

I had a lot of trouble DDing with excess rain in several years and can imagine that this "drilling on the green"-approach could be a solution for that to some degree. But might take new knowledge and new skills to drill a new crop into a living covercrop and make the seedlings survive and the...

We`re 3 farmers from germany looking for exporting 30 to 40 preferrably yearling ewes from the region around Hull (maybe up to 120 miles from the port, we`ll transport the sheep with the ferry from Hull to Rotterdam). Also some rams are required, each from different flocks and also the ewes can...