hilux
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- Location
- south Wales
Probably Monday as they're judging the Lleyns that day.
Auto weigher and drafter.
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JD-Kid
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- Location
- Akaroa.. New Zealand
started off with a manual 3 way drafter then went to a slide gate auto drafter ..up graded that to a new slide gate with eid and xr3000 now went to a 5 way auto drafter with eid and xr5000
yes numbers count we are not doing huge numbers mybe alll the ewes a few times so say 10-12000 lambs might run 10-15000 entrys
might be higher i'd have to think about it so thats only 20-27000 entrys
we tagged ewe lambs with a prfix number IE this year ewe ambs will start at 170000 17 being the year of birth so a vid tag could be 170123
if drafting we set file up to put all the 170000's on way and then split other lambs by weights so ewe lambs not in with stores or works lambs
a manual set up OK if not doing big numbers but have a good head unit or softwear to make the system work
we have id'ed all our ewes in to breed types for mateing and add scanning info to that so can draft them in to groups based on dam and scanning etc
we had a 3 way auto now a 5 and at times i'd like a 7 or 9 way drafter so could bring ewes and lambs in mixed split lambs in to selling groups ewe lambs off ewes in to age groups to check light ewes or very hevey ewes that may be wet drys
can run close to 600 per hour just with one person so eazy to use
yes numbers count we are not doing huge numbers mybe alll the ewes a few times so say 10-12000 lambs might run 10-15000 entrys
might be higher i'd have to think about it so thats only 20-27000 entrys
we tagged ewe lambs with a prfix number IE this year ewe ambs will start at 170000 17 being the year of birth so a vid tag could be 170123
if drafting we set file up to put all the 170000's on way and then split other lambs by weights so ewe lambs not in with stores or works lambs
a manual set up OK if not doing big numbers but have a good head unit or softwear to make the system work
we have id'ed all our ewes in to breed types for mateing and add scanning info to that so can draft them in to groups based on dam and scanning etc
we had a 3 way auto now a 5 and at times i'd like a 7 or 9 way drafter so could bring ewes and lambs in mixed split lambs in to selling groups ewe lambs off ewes in to age groups to check light ewes or very hevey ewes that may be wet drys
can run close to 600 per hour just with one person so eazy to use