Lamb skinning success rate

[Al R]

Someone I know will tie a bucket on the ewes head if she won't take a lamb, after other techniques have failed, and then turns them out in a paddock near the buildings. It's short enough so she can graze and drink but when the lambs suck she can't turn and see or smell which one is and the ewe just stands and lets them feed.

My new shepherdess has used the bucket trick on a few ewes in the shed and it can work. She sent me this the other day she saw on Facebook

 

[sticky]

My new shepherdess has used the bucket trick on a few ewes in the shed and it can work. She sent me this the other day she saw on Facebook View attachment 949256

Exactly that.

 

[Hilly]

My new shepherdess has used the bucket trick on a few ewes in the shed and it can work. She sent me this the other day she saw on Facebook View attachment 949256

Going by the only lamb we can see I’d say it’s not working .

 

[Hilly]

If single and have a skin lamb or calf never fail 100% no skin do t even try life is too short for that sh!t .

 

[sheepwise]

If single and have a skin lamb or calf never fail 100% no skin do t even try life is too short for that sh!t .

I know can’t believe anyone would even consider.trying to twin a cow without skinning the dead calf. Must have to work with them for days.

 

[Hilly]

I know can’t believe anyone would even consider.trying to twin a cow without skinning the dead calf. Must have to work with them for days.

Weeks months ...

 

[farmerm]

When I have a dead lamb I want it bagged up and out of mind as soon as I can, bugger faffing about skinning it. If a wet adoption and a week in the adopter unit doesn't fool our sheep then I am sure a skin wont either.

 

[Nithsdale]

When I have a dead lamb I want it bagged up and out of mind as soon as I can, bugger faffing about skinning it. If a wet adoption and a week in the adopter unit doesn't fool our sheep then I am sure a skin wont either.

A skinning can have a new lamb adopted on and the ewe and lamb back out to the field in 36hrs. 48hrs if you want to be sure.

Bugger pissing about with an adopter for a week making work for yourself

 

[farmerm]

A skinning can have a new lamb adopted on and the ewe and lamb back out to the field in 36hrs. 48hrs if you want to be sure.

Bugger pissing about with an adopter for a week making work for yourself

Will skinning work for the ones we have in the adopter that aren't taking their own bloody lambs?

 

[AftonShepherd]

Not sure if his ewes are still as maternal but my uncle used to skin lambs and just twin on the hill. Wasn't very often that we needed to fetch them in. One year he had a lamber who forgot about one he'd twinned before he finished up - heard lamb crackling as it ran past about a week later.

 

[aangus]

Will skinning work for the ones we have in the adopter that aren't taking their own bloody lambs?

There’s only one option for them kind

 

[Nithsdale]

Will skinning work for the ones we have in the adopter that aren't taking their own bloody lambs?

Can't comment.


I work with good maternal sheep

 

[Stewartry hill]

Will skinning work for the ones we have in the adopter that aren't taking their own bloody lambs?

Kebab shop works for them

 

[PhilipB]

Put a little shallow nick in the skin just big enough for an airline cab blower, and blow it up like a balloon. (You can see the skin coming away from it as your blowing). Makes cutting the legs and neck alot easier as it has separated from the body

Tried this just now.

It feels a bit sick to be inflating dead baby animals, but effective!

 

[Hilly]

When I have a dead lamb I want it bagged up and out of mind as soon as I can, bugger faffing about skinning it. If a wet adoption and a week in the adopter unit doesn't fool our sheep then I am sure a skin wont either.

I don’t have an adopter, takes two mins to skin a lamb and they always take them with a skin it never fails.

 

[Woolless]

Try a large pair of garden loppers

No need. A sharp knife will go through the knee joint and take the head off.

I am splitting the skin right down the belly and chest and tying it underneath when skin is fitted. My strike rate recently has been moderate. Not sure whether my ewes are suspicious bitches or I should refining my technique?

 

[Hilly]

No need. A sharp knife will go through the knee joint and take the head off.

I am splitting the skin right down the belly and chest and tying it underneath when skin is fitted. My strike rate recently has been moderate. Not sure whether my ewes are suspicious bitches or I should refining my technique?

Go around back legs then across crutch pull off like a jumper then around front legs around neck and pull right off , fit on new lamb like a jumper job done .

 

[CopperBeech]

As some know i am having a bad do at lambing. Have had to adopt a hell of a lot more lambs than usual. So far has all been wet adoption and skins. By wet adoption j mean either taking a pet / triplet to a ewe with dead lambs and afterbirth in field and smearing new lambs in her afterbirth and leaving, or taking them into a pen and doing similar, or just good old skin job. Would say wet adoption probably 75% successful and skinning 100% so far. Can skin a lamb and have a new one in skin in a shirt

Go around back legs then across crutch pull off like a jumper then around front legs around neck and pull right off , fit on new lamb like a jumper job done .

I just go round the neck, take legs off at the joints and then take the whole skin off in one piece so it’s like a body glove. Slide the lamb inside it, so apart from the head the rest of the lamb is totally inside the skin, never seems to fail but can get messy inside the skin.

 

[Al R]

As some know i am having a bad do at lambing. Have had to adopt a hell of a lot more lambs than usual. So far has all been wet adoption and skins. By wet adoption j mean either taking a pet / triplet to a ewe with dead lambs and afterbirth in field and smearing new lambs in her afterbirth and leaving, or taking them into a pen and doing similar, or just good old skin job. Would say wet adoption probably 75% successful and skinning 100% so far. Can skin a lamb and have a new one in skin in a shirt


I just go round the neck, take legs off at the joints and then take the whole skin off in one piece so it’s like a body glove. Slide the lamb inside it, so apart from the head the rest of the lamb is totally inside the skin, never seems to fail but can get messy inside the skin.

That’s how I skin aswell, it’s a complete onsey then, I havnt skinned in 2 years, I put a knife in from the ribs down to the pelvis, emptying all the blood into a bucket below, put the live lamb into the blood and swill it around, if not much blood put some water in the gutted lamb and swill around and pour into the bucket too, usually 95% will be back out within 36hours, 50% out within 24 hours. @neilo has started doing some like this too as it’s seconds compared to skinning especially when there is a lot to do.

 

[CopperBeech]

That’s how I skin aswell, it’s a complete onsey then, I havnt skinned in 2 years, I put a knife in from the ribs down to the pelvis, emptying all the blood into a bucket below, put the live lamb into the blood and swill it around, if not much blood put some water in the gutted lamb and swill around and pour into the bucket too, usually 95% will be back out within 36hours, 50% out within 24 hours. @neilo has started doing some like this too as it’s seconds compared to skinning especially when there is a lot to do.

I will try this. It could be a bit of a game changer.