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Couldn't find a thread for this year. So here we are... Has many started yet? How are they shearing? I did my tups today. Folks local are starting to shout wanting them done but I can't see them being great yet. Sharpened a few friends gear over the weekend there and I'm supposed to start...

I'm needing another dog coming on. Wanting a pup or young part trained - dog or bitch. Border Collie is what I know, but would consider other breeds. Nothing fancy - just a decent gather/driving dog which would be a help at catching (lambing)... Let me know what's out there! Due to...

Has anyone bought any of these hurdles from Fowrass Fabrications? Steel, obviously. But they're concertina - so they fold up like the aluminium mobile yards. I'm well aware the aluminium hurdles will be 'better' - I've already got 105feet of aluminium hurdles, I'm just needing a couple extra...

Baler has just done it's 7th season. Chains were always very dry last year, but I put it down to the ridiculous heat and dust... well this year it's the same. It's still using oil from the tank, it's lubing 1 chain but the rest are getting nothing. I've always used new engine oil, and it's...

Surprised nobody had put anything up before now. A lad down in Wales has done a 24hr shearing for charity. He started 12pm (Midday) on Friday and finished 6pm on Saturday. His total sheep shorn for the run is 1143. https://www.facebook.com/groups/129800357098087/permalink/2215400451871390/...

I've been wearing Sealskinz Ultra Grip gloves for a good 7 or 8 years. https://www.sealskinz.com/gloves/ultra-grip-gloves-black-grey.htm I like them - they are thin enough you keep dexterity but are still warm. They are waterproof, although it's more like a wet suit, water passes through the...

Just saw advertised that H&H Carlisle are holding an Innovis ram sale next Thursday. Just for a look, I think I'll head down and see how the experts :rolleyes: breed their sheep. I've been on Innovis website but not a great deal of information, really. I know the Aberfields are a BFL-Texel...

At long last a Cheviot Mule Society is being set up (with C&D Farmers Mart, Longtown acting as society secretary). Something I am both pleased to see, and surprised it is only just set up now. Long may the Mule grow from strength to strength...

Looking for a (used) portable petrol generator for powering shearing machines on a clipping trailer... Needs to be 3.4kVa minimum but preferably wee bit bigger. It'll only get used a handful of days a year so not wanting to spend silly money. Honda and Hyundai I know are good makes, but what...

Now then. I've gotten friendly with a lassie who breeds Borders:bag: and she's on the breed council (some of you may can maybe figure out who she is from that :rolleyes:). Anyway, we were talking about the breed and how the Halfbred sales are pretty close to ending... I asked her where does the...

Have been bothered with lice this year. It's definitely lice, not scab! I got all but 1 mob treated with pour on last month which has sorted them out, the weather has stopped getting the last lot done. I've had to move the untreated mob... Do I need to keep those fields clear for any length of...

Im sure this has been done to death, but after a search I wasn't really finding the info I was after. How do the pure wedders do? Against all philosophy of 'easycare' I would still band the tails and balls. If I went down the Easycare ewe route, how should I expect the lambs to do/grow/fatten...

So, a young fella (Grant Hurcomb) from near Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, started shearing some sheep on Thursday 6th July at 7pm... His goal - to shear, alone, for 50 hours. The target was around 1,800 ewes. But he broke the 2,000 mark before his final run. He finished tonight at 9pm. Sadly...

Found this lamb out on my hill this morning. 4-6weeks old, roughly. I can't say if it was dead, then something has had it... or if it was killed. Never seen a lamb this size/age eaten like this before. Pictures are maybe not the best. Only the shoulder blade left of the missing leg, taken...

Ordered up a 5l bottle of Albex 2.5% white wormer for Nemo dosing my lambs... Got a phonecall this morning as delivery was being put together for the van. No 2.5% Albex (supply issue) but they could get the pharmacist to decant a bottle of Albex 10% in its place for me. Higher concentration of...

Found a lamb down tonight. Laid on its left hand side, front legs pushed out straight and head pushed back. Will scrabble back onto its left side if i lay it on its other side. Lamb is pure Lleyn, 2-3 weeks old. Any ideas what itl be?

So there's currently around 100-110 SuffolkX lambs (and the odd Texel) with another 15-20 hopefully to come. Been toying with the idea of creeping these but I'm a total newbie to creeping young lambs, so a couple questions; How big a creep feeder would i need for this number of lambs - would a...

Anyone else having trouble getting HMR ammo?? My RFD said he was struggling to get it in, 6months ago, so I cleared him out of stock with as much as I could take... Was back in today buying a shotgun, and wanted more HMR rounds. He said all the manufacturers are having real problems with bad...

Anyone dealt with them? Are they a genuine enough company? They've something in stock I'm interested in, at a good price, and they seem happy to deliver. Just asking because I'm buying blind, and they are very far away. Quick search online doesn't bring up anything bad. Cheers for any info guys

Thinking well in advance here about feeding ewes pre-lambing... We buy in beetpulp and maize distillers grains, mixed @ 18% protein. We also buy in bruised barley which we then mix to the beetpulp and maize to bring protein down to 16% to feed to the calves/stores and fat lambs. We don't want...