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Best way to rear Orphan Lambs
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<blockquote data-quote="90hp farming" data-source="post: 4715132" data-attributes="member: 37302"><p>I can`t argue with [USER=72]@Tim W[/USER] if he can command that sort of price.</p><p>I find lambing in April there is little demand from other farmers to `use` any cade lambs. Therefore any new home must be a rearing operation. </p><p>So I have kept them (approx. 50 - 60 p.a.) and reared them myself on a mixing machine. You have to be religious and attend to the machine for 1/2 hr each day, and keep the bedding clean and dry. I run 4 pens of different ages while they are little and keep shuffling them round. Only really lose the ones that are going to snuff it anyway (and early on in the process) I let them have a day or two on the ewe before bringing in to shed. </p><p>Doesn`t earn a massive amount of money, but I feel I owe it to the ewe (to not have to rear 3 lambs) and to the lamb (to not have to perish) in my otherwise simple and low labour system.</p><p></p><p>I will add that when we lambed 600 inside, I was not successful with the machine entirely because you were that busy and knackered that the cades were the last thing on the list.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="90hp farming, post: 4715132, member: 37302"] I can`t argue with [USER=72]@Tim W[/USER] if he can command that sort of price. I find lambing in April there is little demand from other farmers to `use` any cade lambs. Therefore any new home must be a rearing operation. So I have kept them (approx. 50 - 60 p.a.) and reared them myself on a mixing machine. You have to be religious and attend to the machine for 1/2 hr each day, and keep the bedding clean and dry. I run 4 pens of different ages while they are little and keep shuffling them round. Only really lose the ones that are going to snuff it anyway (and early on in the process) I let them have a day or two on the ewe before bringing in to shed. Doesn`t earn a massive amount of money, but I feel I owe it to the ewe (to not have to rear 3 lambs) and to the lamb (to not have to perish) in my otherwise simple and low labour system. I will add that when we lambed 600 inside, I was not successful with the machine entirely because you were that busy and knackered that the cades were the last thing on the list. [/QUOTE]
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