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Bit late to the thread… thanks for the tag after always relying on seperate heavy weigh crates at previous farms I thought an integrated weigh crate sounded a fantastic idea. I hated having to try and lug the crates around, having to go back for them etc m Im really not sure how many lambs...

I think this is most likely the way we are going to go, a mix planted late.. surely then at least something in the mix should be successful?Rather than a whole crop of far too cold turnips not wanting to grow on at all

yes that probably would have been a good idea! I’ll discuss and maybe an option for next year, I think the crop has too thick a canopy and too many areas of it laid flat to broadcast seed into now... or so I’ve been told by the agronomist anyway :facepalm:

Sorry :LOL::ROFLMAO: maybe shouldn’t have said small plot, instead it’s the smallER plot for winter grazing.... if that makes it any better :ROFLMAO: Don’t worry... we all know size really doesn’t matter :censored:

Last year we did rye, and then one field of rye/vetch mix and it really didn’t last long at all, they very quick going over it, regrowth would have been more than a bulky turnip type obviously but the cold wind across the cotswolds and then the snow sort of out a stop to that (n) I also...

Good afternoon, Currently planning which winter forage crops are being planted and into which fields, majority will be turnip/rape mix. However I have a small plot (64ha) which is following spring barley, if the weather is great it will be off end of August, but it’s looking more like will be...

Neither to produce breeding ewes from a charollais ewe... Stock ram probably a beltex, I think @neilo has done a few crossbreds, might be wrong

that’s really odd! I’ve always found some mag aids in the recovery from TLD and lack of calcium Much like @ERL says above, I thought it was needed to help in the absorption of calcium I havnt had an issue with mag in the later lambers this year, only the march lambing flock, but definitely...

Thankyou that’s definitely something to try for next year, do you introduce them well before lambing date?

Yes one out of the shedders last year, 4 out of them this year, but double the numbers None in any of the other lambing groups last yeah they were lambing on ground with TE deficiencies, just grass, this year lambing on ground without deficiencies but with also lick buckets. last year they...

yes, I was wondering if it could be that they were prone to it, so was going to see if anyone else mentioned that they had had them happen in their shedders

Apart from the obvious, just being very large, triplets etc Anything anyone has noticed that may contribute towards a ewe becoming more prone to having an internal rupture? I had one last year, but this year I have had four, all in very large ewes, carrying triplets and one with a twin. Set...

I’ve averaged £17 so far this year, plenty people been picking up from farm but they tend to want ewe lambs or “pretty ones” When I get tired of a group I take them to market Probably would have been worth a proper set up, even if a shepherdess feeder and doing it well Will see what next year...

Im pretty sure Ricky Hutchinson would help if you contacted, or his wife Meg, even if he is unable to help himself he should be able to give some good contacts anyway

Lleyn x exlana Hogg, with charmoise lamb They have been really good mothers, but I’ve never had ewe lambs stealing lambs quite like these have done

Exlana ewe with some fresh trips

How much rabbit meat can one rabbit produce a year? in kgs for example, I wonder what their food conversion rates would be

That’s made me ever so slightly unenthusiastic about when my exlana x Lleyn ewe lambs start to lamb 🙈😬 that’s a whole lot of Lleyn in the mix!

Like others have said, don’t get hung up on the breed, more what it’s selected for and how A Suffolk is/was originally a terminal sire and a mule is selected for being a female lamb with a pretty face So there’s an awful lot more choice out there which is going to be better maternally than a...

I used to use a good scrub of pink swarfega to get it off, it does work but now I associate the rotten lamb smell with it.. has made it hard to use for me rest of the time :sick: