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Best way to rear Orphan Lambs
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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 4715242" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I reckon it costs about £45 to rear a lamb on a machine, staying indoors on ad-lib creep up to finishing at 38-40kg. If you turn them out and wean from creep onto grass, you can shave a bit off that, but they do fall away and take a while to come back to finished condition IME. That still leaves a bit at current prices, more still for early season lambs, and is much easier on the ewe than tryin to rear triplets.</p><p></p><p>I've got to say that the reason I started using a machine, was when we were lambing lots inside and there wasn't time to mess about with cades, they could be on the machine and left to it. I certainly don't spend 1/2 hr each day with mine. I quickly check them morning and night, thrown some fresh straw bedding in (for picking over) and some fresh creep in a small trough. Apart from a clean out every week, and time of jabbing the lambs with clostridial vaccine etc, they don't take up much time at all. Wean at 5 weeks either by turning the machine off (if they are all one batch) or by removing the older ones to a pen with water and a creep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 4715242, member: 348"] I reckon it costs about £45 to rear a lamb on a machine, staying indoors on ad-lib creep up to finishing at 38-40kg. If you turn them out and wean from creep onto grass, you can shave a bit off that, but they do fall away and take a while to come back to finished condition IME. That still leaves a bit at current prices, more still for early season lambs, and is much easier on the ewe than tryin to rear triplets. I've got to say that the reason I started using a machine, was when we were lambing lots inside and there wasn't time to mess about with cades, they could be on the machine and left to it. I certainly don't spend 1/2 hr each day with mine. I quickly check them morning and night, thrown some fresh straw bedding in (for picking over) and some fresh creep in a small trough. Apart from a clean out every week, and time of jabbing the lambs with clostridial vaccine etc, they don't take up much time at all. Wean at 5 weeks either by turning the machine off (if they are all one batch) or by removing the older ones to a pen with water and a creep. [/QUOTE]
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