Well this ewe almost achieved her goal in life until the 410 beat her too it. Prolapsed before lambing, then stitched and given oxytocin. Conveniently she sat on her pair of lambs while in the pen 🤦🏻♂️.
Had a single which adopted itself onto a fresh triplet before it lambed its own. Penned it up and yesterday found the adopted lamb dead as the ewe knocked füçk out of it. 🤦🏻♂️
Bought a run of these ewes for £105 in lamb in March 2022. All 1st croppers and gimmers. You could spilt neeps on their backs when they first arrived but by Christ they've been good ewes. Unfortunately the lad that sold them seems to have moved to cheviots 🙄
The growth response of winter wheat from sheep grazing. It’s not been my best work so once finished will get put in a drawer never to be seen again 😂 Definitions vary but for this one it’s a 10k word study and literature review on a topic of your choice.
Finished this years hoggs indoors on whole wheat without issue and they motored on it after the first fortnight. Couple of dirty bums at the start but fine after a week or so. Ration was 1 part 18% Lamb Finisher Pellets, 1 part Sugar Beet Pulp and 1 part whole wheat. Eventually ditched the beet...
Planning to tag lambs at birth this year and record mothers etc on herdwatch. I'm looking for tag recommendations, I usually use shearwell but the retention has been horrendous and I think that the pin may be a bit big for day old lambs. I’m thinking about using Roxan but wondering what others...
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