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It would be put straight in on top of Oats and barley and then that would be fed in twice a day feedings

I do supplement with a copper bolus coming up to lambing as tests have shown we are slightly low in copper, mainly Suffolk cross ewes the odd texel cross Ewe too. if I was going to feed the pot ale I wouldn’t use the copper bolus.

Have the option of collecting IBC’s of pot ale syrup basically next door. Was hoping to feed it to ewes coming up to lambing with barley, oats, grass silage and fodder beet. Would it be poisonous due to high copper levels?

Cheetah headlite are about €50 I find them perfect. They are rechargeable, hold the power very well, have full and half power, adjustable heights and are very robust

I had a ram break in with highlander hoggets in February one time and 12 of them lambed in July. We had 22 live lambs from them. everything was fine but you do end up with smallish lambs coming into the winter that would need a bit of minding.

I have a bin made up for ewes to eat whole beet from and the floor in it is mesh. it allows a lot of muck to fall/wash down through it and it a big help. I wouldn’t feed unwashed veg/roots in a feeder with a solid floor

In the UCD Lyons trial I’m fairly sure that there was a reduction in wormer use on the lambs in the multispecies sward vs the control group. however I’m also fairly sure that a lot of this was put down to the higher growth rates of the lambs on the multi species meaning they were drafted for...

If it’s stalky silage I’d say your gonna have to give them 1-2kg of concentrate to not have them stunted from a lack of protein. Next year I’d strongly advise taking 2 cuts of silage instead of one big one too if your set up allows for it

Had one in a bought in store no visible signs of any damage to the eye from an in turned eyelid or pink eye etc so I gave him one jab of oxytet a mineral injection into the muscle and left him in a small stall for a week. Fine now and will be let back out to the bunch. I marked him well

I have a farm rented with no sheds but there is a yard so depending what’s over there I just use fodder beet, haylage/silage & concentrates. The concentrates are stored in the jfc plastic meal bin and are only ever used over there as a last resort

Guy cotton smock is good

We don’t use creep feed. Forage rape is very important in our April lambing system as it comes ready for grazing in November just as grass is declining and it’s needed worst for ewes. Kill outs, flag and feed cost and labour costs are all very good too. Not suited to all areas though

I hear some farmers make a deal with a local dairy farmer and vaccinate some of the cows with hep p so then the lamb gets the passive immunity enven though it’s not ewes milk. We always try to milk a good bit from a few singles that lambed with lots of supply or a single that lost a lamb or...

With this broken weather all the time I’m finding it hard to get bought in store lambs dipped. I need them gone asap to fodder crops away from the farm as grass is for the ewes now. im thinking that if they are still damp from the day before raining but the day im dipping them and the next day...

One died on her back and one got listeriosis. Pre lambing. Between abortion and a couple of big dead singles I have 4 ewes rearing no lambs and everything else is rearing at least 1. I’ve lost 22 lambs (2 fox took, 2 hurt and died, 4 mothers hadn’t enough milk, 4 born dead , 2 premature and...

I suppose plenty of fresh spring grass would be hard bet. Plus maybe some high soya concentrate ration. We use a ration here 25%soya 50% barley 5% minerals/molasses 10%oats 10% beetpulp. Works really well but no better than spring grass

Ewes can be more prone to mastitis if you hit cold weather next spring. I know some people who shear twice a year. We didn’t when we used to do it. We only stopped because we changed to outdoor April lambing

I always leave mine out on stubbles. Ad lib hay, and 0.5kg of meal. If rape grows well which it didn’t his year I just leave them out on rape for the winter.

Take the chance out of it for yourself then would be my advice and approach a good sheep farmer in the area and tell him to work away free of charge and let him worry about organising sowing fertiliser etc. Then your not out of pocket and you’ve less hassle.

Well I wouldn’t pay 60p per head per week and establish the crop. It’d have to be one or the other. Maybe I’ve picked you up wrong have I?