- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Bloodless castration lambs
- Thread starter Woolless
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Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Me tooYou never banded a lamb which you could only find 1 ball on??
Infertile they can be... more often they are subfertile, so can still sire. We call them Riggs, they can do some damage amongst cast ewes or ewe lambs(iv been there and got the t-shirt)
they work better than tups 
- Location
- Devon
Place I used to work used to use burdizzos - lambed 2000 ewes indoors but reckoned had improved growth rates by castrating later. Did them at first drench. 2 or 3 of us catching and drenching and holding males on a bale of straw for boss with the burdizzos. They use rings at birth now.
My uncle used to do the same and I'm sure he had a gas powered set of burdizzos but perhaps my memory is wrong?
My uncle used to do the same and I'm sure he had a gas powered set of burdizzos but perhaps my memory is wrong?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
gas powered? How big were there balls??Or are you southerners too soft to crunch them by hand??
- Location
- Devon
Or are you southerners too soft to crunch them by hand??
Well I'm told they used to cut them and pull them out with there teeth down here but I'm far too soft a southerner for that
J.Stephens
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Key thing to remember with burrdizzos is never let the lines meet in the middle
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Well I'm told they used to cut them and pull them out with there teeth down here but I'm far too soft a southerner for that
Aye, that was done up here too...
I think i would have just left them entire
- Location
- Fife
Anyone care to explain how you're supposed to castrate within 7 days blackie lambs born on the heather?
Catch dogs and a lot of quad bike miles?
Lamb them in bye and turn out at 48hrs?
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Anyone care to explain how you're supposed to castrate within 7 days blackie lambs born on the heather?
Reclaim the hill and get more Lleyns
- Location
- Fife
Reclaim the hill and get more Lleyns
A bit difficult to do when grouse shooting has primacy.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- Fife
Not every hill has grouse... and not every hill is shot over
No, but the one I'm lambing on does.
In the words of the headkeeper "the laird bought a grouse moor, nae a sheep farm".
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Aye, i know... my hill is the same - its a white hill with bracken, but the number of partridge the keepers put down
bloody inconvenience to me, though. But I'm just the tenant.I may be wrong, but if memory serves me right Dunc owns his farm. And I'm not sure what grouse there would be.
- Location
- West Wales
We leave the tails and balls on if can only get 1 ball or if it's a hearmaphrodite.. their easier to see if they've got long tails,You never banded a lamb which you could only find 1 ball on??
Infertile they can be... more often they are subfertile, so can still sire. We call them Riggs, they can do some damage amongst cast ewes or ewe lambs
They are 10-15% fertile if you put both balls up and ring the sack I think bovine said on here the other day?
Clunk click the Burdizzo trick
Always done the commercials here. Scarify and clostidrial vaccination same time. Used to buy couples and would never band to castrate after some of the things we saw. Band their tails at turnout - 24/48 hours (hopefully)
Always done the commercials here. Scarify and clostidrial vaccination same time. Used to buy couples and would never band to castrate after some of the things we saw. Band their tails at turnout - 24/48 hours (hopefully)
Grouse estate here, and I'm second generation on a '91 act secure tenancy.Aye, i know... my hill is the same - its a white hill with bracken, but the number of partridge the keepers put down
I may be wrong, but if memory serves me right Dunc owns his farm. And I'm not sure what grouse there would be.
Lambs are rubber ringed within an "appropriate time period".
hillman
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- Location
- Wicklow Ireland
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
That was part of my thinking. Had a few cases of joint ill since we came here two years ago. I am planning to do tails with a docking iron (under anaesthetic) which I'm told is very good.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Interesting. That had passed me by.