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    Will sheep eat fodder beet in the feild with grass

    My ewes and lambs have, well I think have enough grass, but loving the fodder beet, and definitely happier since having it for a week, so obviously did need it!
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    Wanted, mobile sheep dip

    I am looking for a small 4x4 towed mobile sheep dip, any ideas please B Nichols 07947647913
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    Strange theft

    I agree, but it’s a dirty trick dumping a infected sheep in to someone else’s
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    Strange theft

    No ones going to dump a sheep at the moment, with the cull trade where it is
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    Strange theft

    Lay a trap, they will be back, it’s bad though when people are stealing from there own, it must be a farmer because no one else would know what those bits are
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    Sheep possibly exposed to scab.

    We dipped some ewes last week that the poor lady had jabbed five times and hadn’t worked, I blame the reps, people believe what they are told, the reps shouldn’t be advising a product that they know probably won’t work
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    Sheep possibly exposed to scab.

    Cage dips are excellent, but mine is also very gentle on in lamb ewes, as the entry is more like a child’s slide in and a gentle slope out, also because we are dipping a sheep at a time, we can see any problems, where a heap of sheep in a cage, no one can see what’s going on , once they are...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Surly with all Covid resections been lifted at the end of next week, that can only help the meat trade.
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Until last week the weather has been kind, arable farmers keen to work ground after turnips, dairy farmers not keen to have hoggs for so long due to cost of fertiliser, hoggs have done really well so more on market than expected, also the family on the street have only had one pay day since...
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    You can’t hold them back once they are on hoppers, they will have to be sold, but you can stop putting more hoggs in the shed
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Thousands of them over the years, but I haven’t put any more in the shed for 5 weeks, so nearly done the hopper lambs
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    Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

    Ewes are a very hot trade at the moment, but surely can only get shorter. As for the hoggs people should hold there nerve and stop talking them down, any one who still has them now surly can hold them till April, two festivals and Easter, less spring lambs will be on creep due to the cost this year
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    Sheep possibly exposed to scab.

    I don’t think the merchants should even be selling the injectables for scab, it’s dishonest, I lot of people believe the person behind the counter that the product will work, and it clearly doesn’t
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    Sheep possibly exposed to scab.

    We dipped some ewes yesterday for a lady, who had injected them three times, massive resistance to injectables now, just dip them
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    What’s in lamb sheep going to be worth

    Hereford Inlamb ewes and store lambs can only be described as off the clock
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    In lamb ewe lambs

    We don’t feed them anything, but we also only let them rear one, and wean them early
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    Ticks . . . in December

    Big numbers are possible, depending on moves, sheep running well,and people helping, best day we had last summer was 3300 odd, but every thing went well and it was a long day, call if you want to talk further 07947647913
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    Ticks . . . in December

    With respect Highland Mule, I really don’t see why you are so interested in this post, you must have special powers to be able to see into my dairy. You really have no idea what work I have that might be close to there, let’s just leave the matter there
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