- Location
- Yorkshire
Oh yes that comes back when it all thaws
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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- Location
- Fife
Singles and multiples leader follower. Thought I'd put an extra break fence between them, just to be safer
Under the white shiť!
livestock 1
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Bet you had to dust off your coat
- Location
- Yorkshire
Thaws fast at this time of year too
spring grass is like rocket fuel
- Location
- Scot Borders
That’s the Cheviot in them ………Cold but dry here. I’m undecided about these Aberfield x cheviots. One will be the best mother ever, then the next one couldn’t give a shite about its lambs and just wanders off. Running about half and half with it at the moment.
speaking from experience
Few Jabs of metacam will help him
You need some swalesWhat’s the collectives thoughts, I’ve got big lambs coming. Had 4 sets of triplets today, all the lambs the size of good twins. But I’m still running abit short of milk in the ewes. Good Haylage, SF carrots, Mollasses & 1lb of 18% nuts each end of the day. If I up the corn anymore I reckon I could hit issues with lamb size. At the moment “touch wood” they’re coming out like shelling peas.
Now they’ve only been in 5 days. Do I hope that being out of the weather on the same diet as they were outside will mean in another couple of days we see an increase in milk production as we stop feeding the weather?
Any relevant thoughts would be interesting.
No, I’m not turning them out to lamb outside
No, I’m not going to cull the lot and start again
No, I’m not buying Easycares
I'd put it down to the change of coming inside, when you turn them back on to some grass with their lambs hopefully the milk should start flowing
- Location
- North of Perth
Probably knocked the calf up a bit if it's big.ive seen them a day or 2 before there up.id give it some metacam
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
The way things look at the moment he may need to lamb middle of MaySo should be lambing them outside, a bit later on, when the rest of the Easycare flocks do?
Maybe cull the lot and start again with some of those?
Can't make big decisions based on one year
Remember we haven't had 4 dry days in a row since July. If that becomes the norm they want housing in Jan!
- Location
- Cheshire
Steroid for the calf and oxytocin for the cow?
- Location
- Fife
There's a reason I don't start lambing until 24 Apr.The way things look at the moment he may need to lamb middle of May
Can't make big decisions based on one year
Remember we haven't had 4 dry days in a row since July. If that becomes the norm they want housing in Jan!
- Location
- Cheshire
Does it?! We’ve plenty of yellow lambs being born.
We’re on Carrs Ewelac18. Same one we’ve been on for the last 10 years. The only thing different will be the weather this time. I’ve just had 9t of Ewelac last week. If the problem persists I’ll have a go at their next grade up for the next load.
- Location
- Cheshire
The Cheviot mules are grand TBF, it’s just these Aberfield crosses. Although they are run dry shearlings… that won’t be helping
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
The Cheviot mules are grand TBF, it’s just these Aberfield crosses. Although they are run dry shearlings… that won’t be helping
Didn't you say, about this time last year, that you were never going to lamb run dry shearlings again, and sold all your empty hoggs?
- Location
- East Ayrshire
We only lambed Cheviot x Aberfields for one year, (due to a change in policy all in-bye ewes were sold off) but I'd definitely say there was more mastitis in those gimmers than I've ever had in the purer ewes. Only about 20 of them so hardly scientific though.Is that better than the Texel in the Aberfield giving them mastitis though?
- Location
- central scotland
The thread is confession of an addict thoughDidn't you say, about this time last year, that you were never going to lamb run dry shearlings again, and sold all your empty hoggs?