Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker

[livestock 1]

I would feed about 80 but I suppose depends on size of field, big fields with 120 in they might leave lambs behind .
I usually drop them out and leave them 3 or 4 days then start to cake

That’s probably my problem we keep leading them in it’s finding places to put them

 

[livestock 1]

I have grass allotments saved but it’s been far too wet to put any newborn lambs in
Today was the first day it was anything like
Bit like most problems at the moment it needed to stop raining

 

[muleman]

That’s probably my problem we keep leading them in it’s finding places to put them

It's a nightmare trying to drop new lambs off if your feeding and ewes chasing you yes

 

[livestock 1]

It's a nightmare trying to drop new lambs off if your feeding and ewes chasing you yes

Yes. I could cake them if I lambed later as I would have separate places to drop them off but thereby lies another problem
I suppose that’s answered it without me realising
Grass isn’t lasting long at the moment

 

[Hilly]

Yes. I could cake them if I lambed later as I would have separate places to drop them off but thereby lies another problem
I suppose that’s answered it without me realising
Grass isn’t lasting long at the moment

The frost and freezing north wind is eating more grass than stock here .

 

[livestock 1]

The frost and freezing north wind is eating more grass than stock here .

We call it kiseney weather

 

[Hilly]

We call it kiseney weather

I call it shyt weather

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I don’t know about global warming… been starvation today, absolutely Baltic

 

[Northern territory]

I don’t know about global warming… been starvation today, absolutely Baltic

Yeah that wind is taking the grass.

 

[muleman]

Will it take some rain to warm things up a bit

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Will it take some rain to warm things up a bit

It’ll take 2 months of 25 degree unbroken sunshine. You can shove your rain down your flexothanes

 

[livestock 1]

It did rain today

 

[kfpben]

Turn ewes and lambs out after lambing inside. Max flock 100 ewes with twins.

5 days after the last ones are turned out starting caking at 0.5kg/hd. The time lag is really important to prevent mis mothering.
Keep going until the grass really takes off. I don’t cake ewes with singles.

You get bang for your buck caking ewes- more milk and ewes lose condition less. That’s my thinking anyway. My vet tends to agree.,

 

[Henarar]

I don’t know about global warming… been starvation today, absolutely Baltic

If the gulf stream stops owing to global warming it will be much colder

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Keep going until the grass really takes off.

This is what it's about and can vary a lot due to weather. No room for prescriptive systems with the weather

 

[Henarar]

Turn ewes and lambs out after lambing inside. Max flock 100 ewes with twins.

5 days after the last ones are turned out starting caking at 0.5kg/hd. The time lag is really important to prevent mis mothering.
Keep going until the grass really takes off. I don’t cake ewes with singles.

You get bang for your buck caking ewes- more milk and ewes lose condition less. That’s my thinking anyway. My vet tends to agree.,

we don't feed ewes after lambing but tempted to feed ewes with twins next year if the weather is crap and grass slow, wish we had this time

 

[Skintagain]

After reading this I’m off out with a bag of feed in ten minutes

 

[Attam]

Singles get no feed after lambing
Twins get fed 0.5kg in a morning as soon as there turned out then go round again at night to make sure everything is mothered up, do that for 2 or 3 days. After that stop looking at them at night.

 

[muleman]

If they're lambed outside they pair up better, they follow the ewe from the word go.
Those that are penned inside a few days maybe more likely to mismother

 

[Skintagain]

Singles get no feed after lambing
Twins get fed 0.5kg in a morning as soon as there turned out then go round again at night to make sure everything is mothered up, do that for 2 or 3 days. After that stop looking at them at night.

We turn first lambs out 4 mile away on
Some kinder ground the mums have to be good