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Oh yes that comes back when it all thaws
Under the white shiť!Where's the mud?
Bet you had to dust off your coatUnder the white shirt!
spring grass is like rocket fuelSame feed here indoors. Plenty of milk.
having said that. The outdoor lambing ewes, which have seen no hard feed at all, are as milky as I’ve ever seen ewes. Only got the tiniest bit of grass but must be some power in it.
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.
Few Jabs of metacam will help him.....had a calf born yesterday, with a lot of help , both cow and calf down and couldn't stand .
Managed to get cow to stand un-aided very late last night and have hot plenty of colostrum into calf by ' tube bag' . Unfortunately calf still can't stand , he is huge !
Mother not interested in him , how does anyone sort this out , bearing in mind the calf is huge.
Was thinking of making a cradle out of a hessian sack to hold him up for a short while at a time ......or am I best just leaving him for now and just keep moving 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
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.....had a calf born yesterday, with a lot of help , both cow and calf down and couldn't stand .
Managed to get cow to stand un-aided very late last night and have hot plenty of colostrum into calf by ' tube bag' . Unfortunately calf still can't stand , he is huge !
Mother not interested in him , how does anyone sort this out , bearing in mind the calf is huge.
Was thinking of making a cradle out of a hessian sack to hold him up for a short while at a time ......or am I best just leaving him for now and just keep moving him !
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?
Steroid for the calf and oxytocin for the cow?.....had a calf born yesterday, with a lot of help , both cow and calf down and couldn't stand .
Managed to get cow to stand un-aided very late last night and have hot plenty of colostrum into calf by ' tube bag' . Unfortunately calf still can't stand , he is huge !
Mother not interested in him , how does anyone sort this out , bearing in mind the calf is huge.
Was thinking of making a cradle out of a hessian sack to hold him up for a short while at a time ......or am I best just leaving him for now and just keep moving him !
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!
Does it?! We’ve plenty of yellow lambs being born.Yellow greasy skins means the feed is good
The Cheviot mules are grand TBF, it’s just these Aberfield crosses. Although they are run dry shearlings… that won’t be helpingThat’s the Cheviot in them ………
speaking from experience
That’s the Cheviot in them ………
speaking from experience
The Cheviot mules are grand TBF, it’s just these Aberfield crosses. Although they are run dry shearlings… that won’t be helping
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?
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?