Tbf the set up here is less than ideal. It would handle 600 nicely but there's 1200 to try and put through it so a lot of buggering about and extra handling. I'm not really inclined to go investing in sheds etc to change that either.
Yes I suppose they won't have had mules either be all swales or something.
Been on indoor lambing for the last week with the in-laws (they're still doing most of the work until lambing is over) and I can safely say I still absolutely detest lambing in a shed. Tups will be 3 weeks later going out this back end for a certainty
Its the labour per ewe required that kills indoor lambing for me.
I lamb from 24 Apr.
How do you stop it being a quagmire inside?
Totally different isn’t it. I can remember vaguely they weren’t keen of twins one lamb per ewe seemed the happy bit
We have some flat fields on gravel that drain they are on deep straw probably better than on hard standing as far as drainage goes for the tents
They also kept lambs longer,none of this teeth up shît.
I read a book about Robert bakewell a few months ago. The great improver of livestock who bred the dishley Leicester. A sheep's job then was to get as fat as possible off grass that wasn't good enough for anything else. Literally inches of fat all over the sheep. That's why old portraits of stock look so weird they were so fat they had rolls of the stuff all over and looked nothing like what we are used to seeing.
Do them yourself or get some help?
Home kill guy doesn't do Scotland as someone shopped him. So I took them to Shotts abattoir.
Always some stroker to annoy someone!
How did you get on at Shotts? Good service?
I'll tell you when I pick up the meat next week.
What will it include full cutting or just slaughtered?
Full cutting and vacuum sealing.
Good plan. Its alot of work doing yourself I find.
We did 1 yesterday.
