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[steveR]

Is this sorrel? Or if not what is it and should it be sprayed or left alone
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Do the sheep eat it??

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Is this sorrel? Or if not what is it and should it be sprayed or left alone
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Ready made herbal ley

 

[Christoph1945]

Is this sorrel? Or if not what is it and should it be sprayed or left alone
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Just as something of an aside; our daughter has an ap on her phone and she just points said phone at a plant/flower and smart phone tells what the plant is and also gives her some backgound information.

Clever; init?

 

[Christoph1945]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

 

[Wood field]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

Nooooooo

 

[Wood field]

Do the sheep eat it??

Yes … I think .
That parcel of land grows well and is full of herbs … or weeds

 

[Wood field]

Just as something of an aside; our daughter has an ap on her phone and she just points said phone at a plant/flower and smart phone tells what the plant is and also gives her some backgound information.

Clever; init?

I was looking at the apps, but thought the great and wise on here would know

 

[Wood field]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

We lamb the first group inside, check at 0530
Then do what needs doing , putting ewes and lamb in mothering pens etc , we will be close by most of the day , do last checks at 9pm by head torch, if alls quiet that’s us done
Some folk leave lights on and check through the night , we feed at around 6pm and generally at last checks they are lying down cudding
outside lambing, we go round at 6-30 ish and again around dinner time , then tea time and finally just on dusk
It works for us but others will have their own methods

 

[Christoph1945]

We lamb the first group inside, check at 0530
Then do what needs doing , putting ewes and lamb in mothering pens etc , we will be close by most of the day , do last checks at 9pm by head torch, if alls quiet that’s us done
Some folk leave lights on and check through the night , we feed at around 6pm and generally at last checks they are lying down cudding
outside lambing, we go round at 6-30 ish and again around dinner time , then tea time and finally just on dusk
It works for us but others will have their own methods

Most interesting; thank you.

I have just finished watching an instructional video on lambing and the many problems that can crop up; from hung lambs, through lamb snares and prolapses, ad infinitem.

Of course, you then have the killer crows, foxes, and badgers to contend with, if your flock is lambing in the fields.

 

[Christoph1945]

OOPS; I missed out stupid townies with their out-of-control killer dogs.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

Have a night lamber here for 14 nights. Not necessarily to lamb sheep really but to make sure they all end up with the right lambs and one ewe doesn’t end up with 18 lambs . When she leaves I spread them out (usually 150 ewe left to lamb) in 30 pens and go home at 9 and back at 4.30, mortality is less than when someone is there

 

[primmiemoo]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

I'm no longer doing late watches on account of general crockiness, so it's other members of the family who go down at around midnight ~ staying on when there are signs of impending lambing.

 

[primmiemoo]

Is this sorrel? Or if not what is it and should it be sprayed or left alone
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Looks rather like it from here. Have you had a nibble? They should taste sour-ish, and have a good "green" flavour.

 

[primmiemoo]

It's rai-ai-ai-ning again Lost a big hogg's single (even the most skilled of the team couldn't save it), so one of a hogg double was adopted on. It looks like the remaining hogg marked as a single must have slipped without showing it, so that leaves one to go.

She's going to hold on to the bitter end, isn't she

 

[Wood field]

Looks rather like it from here. Have you had a nibble? They should taste sour-ish, and have a good "green" flavour.

I don’t do greens , if they made bacon flavoured sorrel, now there’s a thing !

 

[steveR]

Most interesting; thank you.

I have just finished watching an instructional video on lambing and the many problems that can crop up; from hung lambs, through lamb snares and prolapses, ad infinitem.

Of course, you then have the killer crows, foxes, and badgers to contend with, if your flock is lambing in the fields.

Oh yes indeed.....

 

[Jonp]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

Lay in bed and watch sheep on shed camera

 

[steveR]

Do any of you folks work nights during lambing; or perhaps employ a watchman to do so?

I have a daughter, and CCTV in the buildings!

Both will get me out of bed......

 

[steveR]

Lay in bed and watch sheep on shed camera

Just need that Robot lambing assistant...

 

[Wood field]

Just need that Robot lambing assistant...

Get some lovely young vet students ( make sure they are female)