Grass quality and lambs
- Thread starter will6910
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
Not being rude but your land looks low on potash
Soil samples didn’t show any lacking of that I don’t think. I’m trying to re seed some fields to see if new better grass helps but weathers stopping me now since it’s been ploughed
Not bad looking lambs all the same
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
could you educate a numpty as to how you come to that conclusion from a photo of dark green grass?
- Location
- North Antrim
Maybe it's too green....
They look nice and correct shape and long lambs just struggling for them to weigh well
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
When you handle them, have they improved in condition since you drenched them?
As has been posted above, they look a tidy bunch of lambs?. Grass looks good too, as much as anyone can tell from a photo.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
ime severe copper deficiency (from a molybdenum lock up) led to a light brown scour. Iodine deficiency seems to cause a dark ‘wormy looking’ scour, so much so that I originally doubted my worm counting and drenched them anyway (it made no difference...).
Never had reallt issues with mucky but not wormy
Not really improved at all I’m afraid. Starting to run out of options now. I’m pleased with shapes but for the breeding and ram breeds and the grass Theyv had I’d hope I’d have more of a bigger weight. I’d say rough counting they’d be least 40 of them 15 to 18 weeks old
Have you bolused along with the top up mineral drench? Lambs look decent to me what weights are some of those ram lambs?
Didn’t bolus as couldn’t get small enough box of bolus just for 60 or so lambs and wasn’t sure if help or not so just dosed them. Weighed last week and there is 2 that are 40kgs or just over and rest around 35 kgs. Main concern is I had the best ewe lambs born at start notched at lambing to keep and when weighing all the last day there is 2 that are 40 kgs out of maybe 20. They’d all be pushing 18 weeks now as didn’t notch any of the later ones
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I wouldn't be worrying unless they've been creep fed. If they are twins that's an acceptable growth rate really. They can't all be gone in 12 weeks or we'd have a hell of a glut!
- Location
- Ceredigion
Perhaps my grandad told me wrong. But green patches sign of potash shortage
- Location
- Ceredigion
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- Location
- North Wales
Can also be excess potash.
- Location
- Ceredigion
That's a new one . Grandad never told me that . But I saw the stripes from the slurry tanker when we only put Nitram on 2CD cut