Rumen fluke here, and if it's here in the Highlands, it's everywhere 😱. We suspected a missing link, with losing a few healthy lambs last summer. Just suddenly going downhill for no reason, looking flukey but shouldn't be, and in spite of a very effective health plan.
After reading the comments...
I keep looking and currently am drawn toward South America Chile, Argentina and Brazil. but where else should I be looking?
And who has actually done it and how is it going.
My sister married a Kiwi and has farmed out there for the last 20 years but they no longer have the cheap land and are...
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Anybody use Roxan tags and find their delivery a bit slow? Every year when we’re ordering management tags for lambs at lambing time they’re taking 2-3 weeks to arrive, I ordered some 11 days ago and just when I called yesterday they told me they were getting posted. Don’t want to have to pester...
Putting some MOP on a couple herbal leys this afternoon and there's quite a few volunteers mainly behind the combine.
It's two years ago that it was in OSR.
What to do about it?
Top them as they are coming up to flower?
Would rolling put them quiet?
I want to mow the fields for silage ideally.
For the past couple of years, I was using an Irish origin lamb milk powder, whose brand name escapes me*, made with ewes milk. Super product on the lambs, mixed well and no brown crap settling out in minutes like the Volac stuff. How Volac can be used in an ad-lib situation escapes me, when it...
4 days off due date. For the last week to 10days we've had at least 1 ewe a day abort. 1 premature looking and 1 dark colour with buttons or a small fetus.
Had 3 sets today. A triplet with 2 small weedy live lambs 3rd 1 black dead fetus.
Another twins not bad size and another just now bit...
Nearly everyone ive asked to do a "job" is at or over retirement age, busy as hell? Examples, metal worker/welder, blacksmith, motorcycle dent, classic bike painter, thatcher, motorcycle seat recoverer, maker, etc etc etc? Just named a few, i bet others can name many other skills/ trades, that...
We are looking at buying a farm steading and part of our business plan includes constructing a new shed and converting an existing shed looking for advice on things to consider and a sounding board on whether our plans sound reasonable.
Converting existing earth floor shed to slatted sheep...
Written by Claire Sammon from Agriland
With Easter set to see an increase in visitors to the countryside, National Farmers’ Union (NFU) Mutual is reminding dog owners in Scotland to be extra vigilant at a time when sheep and lambs are at their most vulnerable.
The warning comes as Scottish...
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Even after 7 or 8yrs, I still consider myself as a newcomer to sheep rearing.
As my own lambing comes near an end and my mind starts to function somewhat nearer to usual, I'm wondering what others consider an acceptable or even inevitable level of lamb mortality at time of lambing itself and...
Iv a few ewe lambs that’s lambed about a week ago. 1 was lambed by vet and checked all inside and no damage done. But she’s been pressing and pushing a slight prolapse out since. Now tonight in final check another 1 lambed about a week has full prolapse out and seems to have slight tear in it...
So I lambed inside this year a small amount and once lambs were a few days to a week old I've put them in the same field as 1 ram. So far he has completely ignored them and everything has been fine. Just wanted to know other people's thoughts/ experiences. Thanks
This isn't an attack on or criticism on Islam for being a 'religion' in the general sense, because to me as a rational atheist all religions are as absurd in that regard. But I'll be interested to know the views of others about the nature of Islam itself.
Many religions have and have had...
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I’ve a number of last years ewe lambs running , the plan was to sell half as shearling breeding ewes as they are decent sorts.
But the price of hogs at the moment means they need to be £250 plus as shearlings……
I've a gimmer which I think has acidosis. They were only on 1/3 lb of nuts per day plus silage, but I was feeding them in boxes and filling 2 ring feeders with silage from the bale by hand as they wernt eating the bales whole that well. What was happening a good few were leaving the nuts and...
Anyone know if these are available yet in the UK? I heard rumours someone had imported embryos in 2022?
Vowed i would never touch sheep but having seen them delivering superb results in Albury Wodonga when visiting if i can get my hands on some here ill swap some of my cattle for sheep. They...
I have quite a few youngsters help me at various times of year. Vet students, 15 year old work experience kids, ag college students, the odd NEET from the county council.
Most are ok, some are very good, some are muppets. However the thread that runs between nearly all the youngsters that are...
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