We’ve got mainly Aberfield x Welsh which I like, lambs are pretty wooly but they don’t feel the cold and hit the ground running. The rest are Aberfield x Llyen cracking looking lambs but they need to be born on a good day preferably over 5 degrees 🤦🏼♀️ these seem to be where my main deaths have...
Just trying to establish what is good/bad, at the moment we're sitting at 10% today and coming to the end of the first cycle but....that is only what i've picked up dead not what has potentially been taken by a fox/badger etc. I have a tally counter and just click any dead i pick up more trying...
Yeah the first week almost broke me :LOL: to be fair to the hoggs most have got on with it and the lambs are full of fight which is good. think i'd rather have the hoggs then the 40 triplet 2ths who seemed to have tried every which way to die or abandon their lambs!
have always mainly lambed outside apart from the odd stint in a shed which i try to avoid! seem to have lost a fair few in that first storm that came through at the beginning of April, picking up lambs that just hit the ground and never got going is a depressing way to start lambing!
BCS: 3-3.5
Grass is mainly old parkland wet trash but good shelter and moving out on to good herbal leys post tailing.
Stocking rate 8/10/ha
Experience: 12 years split into 5 as a stock manager in NZ sheep and beef and 7 in the UK mainly sheep.
predators aren’t to bad tbh, weather has been...
Just wondering what everyones average mortality rate is at lambing, outside in April.
Little bit of an idea, we lamb outside this is our second year, 1000 head split almost 50/50 2ths and hoggets :oops:
The farm hasn't had its own livestock for at least 50years so this is a start from scratch...
if you find out let me know! every year i have an episode of ccn in my ewe lamb replacements, normally around october/november. I haven't worked out the cause, although I think it might be lack of sugar/protein in wet grass. Incredibly frustrating, I have managed to save a few but its time...
Probably worth doing some bloods, just had 2 mobs tested here because out of nowhere they're itching. They haven't had contact with any other sheep either so just wanting to rule out scab...may save a bit of money in the long run.
I've asked the vet to find out if its pathological or not currently don't have an answer...
Overall they look pretty good just the bottom 50 that are a bit dirty, still growing 100g/day on the worst looking cover crops so i guess i can't complain to much!
Never had to drench for cocci so bit of...
Just got a FEC back from the vets and they said the Cocci count was 1600 is that high? never really had a problem with it before but there is the odd scouring store lamb. No nemo or strongyle present.
Vet said to dose just the scouring lambs with Tolracol ??
Personal preference here, I use it pre tup and pre lamb, I wouldn't be using it every 3 months....I cant see why you would.
I also use it on our ewe lambs we buy in post weaning and it really does kick them along.
I've never had an issue with copper with it and have used it on a range of sheep...
Ours is the same....buggar all for them to eat and having to move them everyday(4ha).
Turnips on the other hand are great, no damage at all and still only having to feed 0.37ha/day. I know which one i'd rather have!!!
See how they go, i'll get a weight off them in a couple of weeks. I've had to hold my nerve the last few days because they didn't look like they where going to get onto it but tonight they look to be turning the corner.
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