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I was planning on going to have 15 ewes and lambs for sale this time. Great plans hey...;) But will there be any buyers in a fortnight as the weather looks shite for another week or 3 still? Any prices about yet ....?

Bit of a background. Last yr we didnt dose pre lambing. We then went on to loose a load of ewes with lambs at foot and it was unknown. Fec come back good. Pms inconclusive then we bit the bullet and dosed all the ewes with cydectin triclomox off our own backs and it pretty much stopped deaths in...

So I bought 25 recorded easycare ewes from @Woolless a few weeks ago with the intention of using them as a nucleus flock to breed my own rams for the commercial flock. I wasn't going to do any sort of recording on them myself because I don't know how/can't really be bothered and was just going...

This gives guide as to the relative demand for various breeds. Just look at the average for Texel tup shearlings and Blue faced Leicesters. And Lleyns!!! https://borderunion.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Results-Summary-for-Shearlings-2023_v2.pdf

here a strange trend and maybe others have seen it or not looked but might show up in records ok back ground info hoggets here mated at 43 kg used to be 40kg but found alot between 40-43 dry so not worth mating them lighter ones and scanned drys run as drys until mated as 2...

Hello. just after some advice or pointers on rotation. Having had sheep on the ground here for 3O plus years lambs are not doing so well as they used to. I’m awaiting some FEC results etc but is there any golden rule with rotation or resting ground so I can improve things. Such as ewes certain...

Welcome to the latest issue of the RH&W newsletter. Spring finally feels like it has fully sprung upon us over the last month. The landscape has erupted into colour and crops are beginning to flourish with sun shining. As is often the case, with a change of season comes changes to...

Anybody breed and fatten meat goats here?I’ve been thinking of buying a few Boer goats breeding does and a few weathers to fatten and keep them indoors in my redundant sheds . I already have someone who has a Caribbean street food business interested in working together. Is there a market for...

Anyone had any problems with new clik sheep pour on guns? Brand new gun doing 20 lambs and then loses its prime?

From Sep I'll have a 3,000hd capacity slatted lamb finishing shed avail to a B&B customer. Includes automated feed system and skilled labour on site. I envisage lambs being sheared into the shed, and weighed weekly while on feed. Location will have its own CPH so movements are no issue...

Is there any coming back for thin flukey ewes? Flicked them all 5 weeks last Friday at scanning, there’s a few poor looking ones but they are up and eating Had two gelds go to nothing then as is usual after throwing the whole armoury of meds at them they die

Having a mare with fattening lambs dying 30 + so far they have been dipped wormed ovivac P Alvited and there still dying talking to guy at local ag merchants he’s telling me I’m not on my own and one chap was telling him he’s lost almost 200 . We‘ve done our normal routine weaned from hill farm...

After such a terrible wet autumn it is finally showing a drier spell on the forecast.....no rain showing for at least ten days for the first time since july, have we finally seen the back of the wind and rain? Lets hope so!🤞 Starting to see the usual problems after a wet year of liver fluke...

Looking at ordering some sheep bolus, tests show we're short on selenium and cobalt, the Mayo ones look good with 350mg of cobalt 100mg selenium, seen some others (g shepherd) at 1000mg cobalt and same selenium. How much cobalt does a ewe need?

Seeing plenty Dutch Spotted rams in catalogues and online at the moment..anybody tried one commercially ?..Would they fatten off grass?..anybody tried cross bred ewes ?

This is a thread for those who feel guilty about cluttering up dear old GUTH’s beloved price tracker with the chit chat that stop us all being that miserable our families would throw us all out to sit with the dog in the porch. All are welcome, you can even post prices if you want. The only rule...

A situation had arisen and got me thinking. If your flock is resistant to certain categories off wormers and u have to use the other categories instead. Will there become a time where no wormers will work on your flock ?

Well lads I am from midland Republic of Ireland and purchase 500+ store lambs from the south of the country mid September and graze them on well fertilised out farms from our dairy operation until January. The day after arrival I bring them in and pour on Dysect 1ml of Generic Ivomec...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland A new blood test is giving hope that sheep scab can be eradicated in the UK and Ireland. But it is by no means a ‘silver bullet’. Developed by staff at Scotland’s Moredun Research Institute, the new test acts to identify infected sheep before physical...

Hi, I’m curious of the process and cost of importing sheep genetics from NZ? What are the major blockers and expenses? thanks