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LAMBCHOPS

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That’s my plan exactly. I’ve got the vet booked to come and run a few tests on the poor doers that haven’t got stiff or swollen joints. I’d like too know what they are short of so that I can dose/inject when I end up with more of them. (It’s going too happen, as @livestock 1 said they come through in bunches of 60-100 and I buy them too fill the wagon faster. Can easily slip 10 poorer ones through.)
But yes, aim for a fortnight before Quirbani now. 👍👌
Give them a shot of Troy B12 injection imported from Aus by vets. We got every store lamb fat bar the joint I'LL ones about 10 which were sold in store ewe ring. hell of a product lasts 2 months in the lambs and four months in the ewe. 16p a lamb dose. Done own young ones at 3 weeks and will do again at the end of the month.
 
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idgni

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Armagh
It’s an occupational hazard buying in those things. Can’t do much about it really, they look worst when they are all in a heap after you’ve had weeks of sorting through them. Bolus would probably help cobalt is low here and shows up so does copper in sheep. Selinium and iodine and copper short here and shows up in cattle. Some of these sheep just won’t feed won’t eat basically. I always have a batch of lean backed things at the end every year. So does everyone else with any number
This year I did what I vow to do every other year and didn’t.

I went through them all at the end of January , and picked out everything that I thought would never do much more/ genetic runts etc.
Landed them into the mart when there was still edjits that though all lambs were made of gold and got a fortune for them.
Best decision I ever made.
Seen a batch of them come into the ring last week that a lad had bought, I swear they hadn’t put on 2kgs and were a fiver less than i got 4 months ago
 
This year I did what I vow to do every other year and didn’t.

I went through them all at the end of January , and picked out everything that I thought would never do much more/ genetic runts etc.
Landed them into the mart when there was still edjits that though all lambs were made of gold and got a fortune for them.
Best decision I ever made.
Seen a batch of them come into the ring last week that a lad had bought, I swear they hadn’t put on 2kgs and were a fiver less than i got 4 months ago
You will have to find another victim next year
 
This year I did what I vow to do every other year and didn’t.

I went through them all at the end of January , and picked out everything that I thought would never do much more/ genetic runts etc.
Landed them into the mart when there was still edjits that though all lambs were made of gold and got a fortune for them.
Best decision I ever made.
Seen a batch of them come into the ring last week that a lad had bought, I swear they hadn’t put on 2kgs and were a fiver less than i got 4 months ago
I kept mine and although they have made all well over £100 a piece I only sold between half and three quarters of what I started with I think there was around 50 of them. Putting them inside was the answer I think. Left them too long to cash them really
 

Sprog

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Location
South Shropshire
Last one gone yesterday.
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Werzle

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Location
Midlands
My thoughts as well.....unless they are off old cows that might have gone on the cull while the cull price is good but even so surely better left on cows 🤔
Cull price is forcast to rise with improved milk prices which will mean less dairy cows being culled . I could understand it if maybe they were autumn calvers but not spring ones.

Cyber attack on american slaughterhouses has brought it to a standstill these last few days, hundreds of thousands of animals backed up and causing chaos
 

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