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    changing a ball joint for dummies

    Fancy tackling changing the ball joints bushes on the suspension on my John deere gator. Can do brakes small service already just want to take the next step. Any fancy tools I will need?
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    'buying in pet lambs

    What's the risks? I have had twenty ewes abort so far and today's pair have a bit of milk so I'm guessing going to be at least another twenty abort before lambing starts so pet lambs to adopt on seems to be the option
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    sheep abortion

    Vets currently inspecting lambs. Have finally got a placenta to drop off( put ewe in pen till she did. Wish I used my brain earlier to do this) Seen nearly 2% of the flock abort now and still 5 weeks off due date. Enzo and toxo vaccinated Not nice shepherding atm Wearing rubber gloves and...
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    tups pushing teeth forward

    Could this be a management issue. We run 30-35 tups of various breeds. Tips rarely go past 4 year old without throwing there over the front of the pad and ending up getting culled. It's expensive and all sorts of tups are guilty for it. Ewes are bad enough but alot better than tups. Pulling...
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    defrosting water troughs.

    Best tool for it? Getting a bit board waiting for the kettle to boil
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    dogs and barb wire

    Hate the bloody stuff. 2nd dog to rip itself open on it. Never purposefully ask a dog to jump a fence anymore.. but seems to happen. Any way to train a dog to stop jumping. Thinking once they no how they will if they feel they have too. Want to swap all barb for electric but I am under...
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    lifting ewe bcs with no grass

    Sorted lean ewes off fortnight ago. Put in shed on ad lib silage reasonably sure there eating a kilo of dry matter a day when worked out it's nice dry palletable stuff but annaylis is poor 9.6 me high protein due to nitrogen 17%. Feeding 16%protein cake over two feeds 0.9 kilo. Feel as if...
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    where and what cheap yard tractor

    To unroll couple of bales of silage a day for 4 months of the year. through a bale unroller Was thinking a Mf 2 or 5 series because it's all I have experience of even though they seemed dear when a new tafe is 13000 Any make would suit
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    all grass winter for dummies

    Worked out I have enough grass to ration the ewes till beginning of March. Plentiful silage supplies if moderate 9me thinking of buying a bale unroller and putting ewes onto a ration of enough grass for 3 days then give them 2.0 kilo of dry matter silage on floor for the 4th day. Or feed...
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    geared reels or rappa fencing machine

    Massive saveing to be made using geared reels. Starting from scratch so rappa fencing machine plus enigizer reels and posts 2500 Against Gallagher geared reels at 1100. When I was in nz years ago everyone I saw used geared reels but everyone raves about fencing machine on here. 3strand...
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    when do you put food out for sheep in snow

    Deep or frozen leave it 24hr on the odds it will melt or rush straight out with the silage?
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    high protein low me silage

    17%protein only 9me for sheep annaylisis similer to most years 6-8 weeks sheep off till cut. How's best to improve me? sheep have grass hard grazed pre shut off. Will sugar beet pulp blown into a tower be a good option for winter feed supplement? Is it possible to change onto 18%...
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    wintering ewes indoors

    I have always had ewes indoors for winter on bale silage and ewe cobbs. Had ewes wintersd at another shed on pit silage fed through a feed wagon aggainst a barrier fresh everyday. These ewes required no cobbs. We make both silage me protein similar. Considering a bale unroller to allow ewes...
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    water diversion

    Need to diverter some water of my hardcore lane adjoining the road. Alot of water can run down the road and diverts down my lane to house. I have been digging a channel with spade to divert the water but it occasionally fills with chippings of the road. Thinking of digging a h gurder in but...
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    what to get the vet to check on postmortems

    Have a 3-4 young ewes that are bags of bones and will have little value in the Mart so was thinking of feeding them to the dogs. Might find out why there not putting on condition. Fluke. Jonnes. Mv. Send the liver of for mineral check anything else?
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    ewe head pressing

    Had a young ewe bright enough in herself but seeed dazed would walk into thing only walk one direction get stuck on her side. Thought I would have to shoot her but gave her a big multi vit dose and she has changed dramatically over the last two days. Blood tests and forage tests have shown...
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    wanted hunterway stud

    Must be a good worker structural sound. To put to one to a great hunterway bitch.
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    what age can i stop using cocci buckets

    Just about gone through a tonne now. Lambs are 5-10 weeks old. Can I get away with ordering just orf buckets to see through to weaning or get the cocci buckets. Will need another tonne I think
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    trace element requirements in young lambs

    At what age in lambs do trace element difficients effect lambs. If the ewe is covered by bolus. My vet says a month pre weaning as then the lamb is getting less milk and relying more on grass which will be short in trace elements. and milk as the my vet says won't be. Always given a trace...
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    getting fit for shearing

    I don't do a lot couple of thousand. Want to make it easier and try keep ahead of my mate who generally has the legs on me after 6hours. Best way to exercise the back and for stamina?
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