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- Montgomeryshire
Perhaps my grandad told me wrong. But green patches sign of potash shortage View attachment 889387
or Nitrogen, or Sulphur.....especially in a dry time. Pee patches.
Perhaps my grandad told me wrong. But green patches sign of potash shortage View attachment 889387
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...).
I don't suppose you have before and after bolus/trace element drench photos or weight records from when you found out you had a problem?
But I did educate youor Nitrogen, or Sulphur.....especially in a dry time. Pee patches.
Not being rude but your land looks low on potash
Killable before or at weaning at the least.What’s the opinions on keeping ewe lambs from breeding that arent pleasing me. Weighed the ewe lambs I notched at lambing for keeping. 14 of them weighed as 2 weren’t worth weighing. The 14 average weight was 30kgs and average age is 14 weeks
Could you post a pic of the tup/tups they are bred of.Suggested to that if ewe lambs can’t grow fast themself if they kept for ewes they will pass that issue on to their lambs ? I don’t know what is left to try to be honest
You seem to have been extremely proficient so I'm inclined to think that the failing to finish quickly is due to the Texel tup.
Whether it is certain lines, or the breed as a whole, my experience with texels is that they are good at getting to R2 @ 40kg but then take at least a month to be a U3 @ 43kg.
Were the charollais lambs out of the ewe lambs generally better lambs than the texels out of the ewes?Not sure what else to try. Idea was always to mix and match the Suffolk and texel crosses back to Suffolk or texel rams to stop them getting to extreme one way or the other