Can honestly say we had much more mastitis in ewes when we had mules and tex x mules than we ever do nowIs that better than the Texel in the Aberfield giving them mastitis though?
Ewes skins lolDoes 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.
I had a year like that and it drove me nuts.Ewes would reject one or both lambs after spraying the numbers on.I stopped doing it after that.Done a few this year though with the weather and all.If it makes you feel better about them I sprayed a number on a lamb last week and it's f**king mother wouldn't go near it for a day because it smelled funny
I've had tack customers say that to me before. But I've never understood the science behind it.
Multivitamin an a shot of metacam and keep him full he will come round , I’ve had three this year so far
I did…. But I had a moment of weakness at Longtown in October. Nice shearlings at £128 didn’t look far wrong…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?
Dr Green.What’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
Did you give the calve some metacalm? And penicillin wouldn't do any harm
Yes , he well dosed up . The cow is mothering him a bit now as well .
That’s a hell of a calfBodged up a bit of a cradle to lift him up and get his legs working .
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I’d agree with your sentiment, found the Downland mag licks lasted roughly ten days less than a crystalixDid a bit of an experiment. Downland optilix bucket on the left , and crystalix on the right . At similar enough costs , what one is doing the ewes better.
The one ate like a mars bar , or the harder one that is is licked ?
Both been in the pen with 20 ewes for 14 days .
My thinking is buying the slightly cheaper downland ones is false economy!
But do they need more than they can easily lick off of a Crystalyx?Did a bit of an experiment. Downland optilix bucket on the left , and crystalix on the right . At similar enough costs , what one is doing the ewes better.
The one ate like a mars bar , or the harder one that is is licked ?
Both been in the pen with 20 ewes for 14 days .
My thinking is buying the slightly cheaper downland ones is false economy!
I would rather they eat the mag buckets than leave them.
They have all priced them selves out of the market now as far as I’m concerned.Did a bit of an experiment. Downland optilix bucket on the left , and crystalix on the right . At similar enough costs , what one is doing the ewes better.
The one ate like a mars bar , or the harder one that is is licked ?
Both been in the pen with 20 ewes for 14 days .
My thinking is buying the slightly cheaper downland ones is false economy!
