Can't catch my sheep

[Green farmer]

I can't get on with treating in a larger pen as there's always something to catch or knock you or fall over, and the OP will be in a field so it will quickly turn to slippy mud and muck with all the hooves in the same small area. I have to let three or four out at a time from the crowded catching pen into a smaller handling pen to do whatever needs done, and thereafter back to the field. Keeps the bulk of them calmer until their turn, I can see more and it gives more room for me to work.

All about finding little tricks and methods of breaking the flock down into manageable units. Everyone will have their own ways of processing the sheep.

 

[wdah/him]

Any of the comments with meal and a pen are the best bet. However I have a few that won't eat meal and when they lambed will not mix for a long time with the rest of a flock. So they have been trained to run to the gate/pen when the quad or disco enter the field.

Im not kidding spent over an hour once 6 of us trying to bring in a batch that had a few head ewes they kept breaking away with the rest going different directions. They ran out of energy before the quad that day and it has been past from Ewe to lamb since. Most if the time I could walk through the sheep even with a dog and they never move but have a 6th sense to anytime I need to treat or load them.