- Location
- Cheshire
No, I keep thinking I’ll give a cage one a go, but my local mobile dipper runs a portequip and he makes a grand job of them so I’m loathed to swap
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
- Start date
Rich_ard
Member
Not sure you can look up any herd no you want but I think if you have the stock on your holding you should be able to see on scot eid
- Location
- Cheshire
I can see that. Our record is 1780 through the portequip in a day. But they flowed really really well that day.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Is that just a standard single axle dipper or does the twin axle rig have a bigger tank? My man last year put 5 lambs or 3 ewes in at a time
- Location
- Isle of Skye
Yep, we can trace our lambs from here through finishers and all the way to the halal slaughterhouses in north of England, can click on cph and it'll come up with location on google maps, quite interesting really.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
No, I keep thinking I’ll give a cage one a go, but my local mobile dipper runs a portequip and he makes a grand job of them so I’m loathed to swap
If you get one in once, you’ll be persuading your local man that he needs to buy one.
Unless you enjoy mauling sheep up a race of course.It really is an eye opener when you’ve had one in.
I sure as hell wouldn’t buy a mobile plunge dip for £15,500, grant or not, when that would go a fair way to having a cage dipper built onto a trailer/lorry.
Used to work at a place that bought a lot of lambs from tiree , one year we lost a heap
- Location
- Cheshire
Such a shame that our lot won’t adopt a system like ScotEid. Seems a much better system than LiS
Rich_ard
Member
Scot eid have there problems too!
- Location
- Boston, Lincolnshire
Such a shame you can’t trace tag numbers. I bought a pen of Texal Mule ewe lambs a couple of years ago. Can’t remember anything about buying them other than they came out of Melton and cost £121 but Id love to know who i bought them off so as to know to buy them again
livestock 1
Member
I have 3 dippers I wouldn’t be without them. I have looked at a portequip and although I’m tempted I can’t see how I would get the throughput with the ramp and more importantly the small draining pen. I wouldn’t want to put you off getting one I suppose it depends if you can get them to a purpose built dipper easier than having a mobile dipper. You can dip a hell of a lot of sheep yourself cheaper than getting a contractor.
I was told it costs to apply for the license now I did read a figure looked dear. I just pay the 3 x whatever it is and look happy. It was dearer for a while nearly £3000 per year and it’s dropped back a bit. There’s just been letters sent out about re-evaluating the annual fee. You could just get your spent dip taken away if you can find someone to take it otherwise
Can you not designate an area for it to be spread on anymore ??
livestock 1
Member
Yes you still have to pay to spread your own dip on your own land
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I wouldn’t want to spread it on land to be honest, it’ll not do soil biology any good
livestock 1
Member
Won’t do much after a few days will be more muck and bacteria than anything else
livestock 1
Member
Put a big long tub in about twice as fast as a round one for throughput
- Location
- Scottish Borders
I have a 'friend' who just dumps it into the slats. By the time it's spread it's degraded and harmless. Have to be economical with the truth in the medicine book though
- Location
- North Yorkshire
- Location
- North of Perth
Dip ain't what it used to be.ivermectin will do more harm
livestock 1
Member
Sounds like a pain in the arse having to get a contractor every time, we are planning to be dipping sheep on Friday all being well it’s a fairly regular job for us