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I lamb outside and am considering 8 week weights and weaning weights to aid identifying poor performers. I'm not planning on tagging or weighing at birth and so I'm wondering if I just take 8 week and weaning weights I'll have enough info for identifying poor performers? I'll tag at 8 weeks...

Hi all, me and my husband are planning to start offering a service to butcher private kills for other farmers for their own consumption/meat boxes etc, we already do our own pork boxes and lamb and beef and are trained butchers with years of experience so could offer a higher quality and more...

Our farm is in Kent, on really bad ground currently - there is a plan to try improve soil health and plant cover crops. We currently have Romneys that do fairly well on the ground but they don’t thrive and are slow to finish. The company want to sell meat to local restaurants& in their own farm...

Healthy one month old lamb (14kg) started limping on one back leg a week ago. Thought it was a bad knock or possibly a fracture so bandaged it up with a splint. After a couple of days the foot had swollen and her temperature was 40.7C so took it to the vet. He sold us 6ml of anti-inflammatories...

Hi, My lamb is now 2 weeks old and has been very healthy. I had to take care of her as her mother rejected her after birth. She and her brother have been fine however noticed she has been squatting multiple times and attempting to wee. Small amounts come out but not a proper wee then she tries...

When you help bring lamb into the world, see it take its first breath look after its welfare every day take it to the abattoir, eat it in the knowledge that it had the best life in your care, then you are qualified to make comments on the meat industry. OaksBarnFarm.co.uk

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Lost a third lamb suddenly with no signs yesterday, 11 weeks old and was fine the night before. This is the third one I've found in the last 3 weeks, got a post mortem done and got concluded that it was pasteurella pneumonia that caused the death, so guessing the other 2 had been the same. Lambs...

Hi guys I have a orf brake out in my lambs , going to treat them with a old fashioned method of a formalin solution but not sure on the ratio can any one help ??

Hi everyone, I have a lamb ram who is 8 months old and in the cold weather he gets a bit bright green eye crust around his eye. Kind of like what a human would get if they had a load of green sleep around their eyes. Anyone know what it is? it usually only lasts a day and goes away by the...

I have 1000 Romney ewes down on the Kent marshes , currently the 230 replacement tegs go to a Southdown ram for easy lambing and the ewes go to a Romney ram but we seem to be 5kg short each year off the lambs . Any suggestions on a different ram to improve lamb weight? Bearing in mind must be...

To all sheep farmers!! I am a Harper Adams student and for my research project, I am looking at the factors which affect farmer adoption of precision livestock farming within the sheep sector! All responses are anonymous and opinions and sharing of experiences would be greatly appreciated! It...

Good Morning, I am still looking for quite a few responses from farmers in the South West of England. I am looking at the interaction between sheep farmers and vets, and what the primary reasons are for using a vet and how the level of communication has changed, suggested strategies to improve...

With rising feed costs this season and a challenging economic environment, profitability is more important than ever. Lamb mortality has a massive impact on the season’s performance. As 10-25% of lamb deaths occur within the first 48 hours of life, attention after birth is vital and improving...

If preparing for lambing isn’t challenging enough, this year’s weather and the impact on feed and fodder costs means good productivity and therefore profitability is more significant than ever. It all starts with a successful and healthy lambing and ensuring that a new-born lamb gets a...

Hello everyone! Totally new to this but I was looking for other people’s ideas, thoughts and past experiences I have been offered the chance to use 3 pure bred BFL tups for this years lambing I mainly have 3/4 Suffolk, 3/4 Texels and Mules. I was going to use Suffolk or Lleyn tups...

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What would people suggest as a terminal sire on a Lleyn? Most likely to be sold live.

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So I've always loved animals and I got my first orphan lambs 3 years ago and they have grown into a flock of 12 sheep which I'm very proud of. But... this year we had our first lambs that we'd bred ourselves and today we took three of them off to Slaughter. I was dreading it anyway but I didn't...