Guiggs
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With the price of culls I'm just hoping my lambs start taking creep over the next week or so so I can cash in the useless, toothless, milkless sods that have been leaving them to die cold, wet and hungry!
If they're still selling like this in August I might be tempted to stick the fecking lot in Welshpool on a Monday!With the price of culls I'm just hoping my lambs start taking creep over the next week or so so I can cash in the useless, toothless, milkless sods that have been leaving them to die cold, wet and hungry!
Seeing my hoggs with lambs is the most enjoyable part of the job for me
Last year I did question it when I was having far too many hung lambs, but since keeping them on mud this year they seem to be a lot better.
Just make sure you do them well or they won’t perform in their second year.only just started tupping me bigger hoggs this season, been easy lambing and good mothers and thrown some good lambs, in a tough year they've been a joy and I must be starting to get me breeding lines right.
Most of its through advice on this forum and pestering local farmers.
Just make sure you do them well or they won’t perform in their second year.
Yes, and don't be afraid to wean a Hoggs lamb early, or creep them.ya mean keep them well fed, good grass etc
Yes, and don't be afraid to wean a Hoggs lamb early, or creep them.[/QU
I think there could be quite a lot of people going out of sheep this year.
Hopefully a slightly better price will help recover our losses.
It wont happen.We will find there are just as many ewes and lambs about this year as all the others,inspite of all the horror stories going around.For every person that has had a bad lambing,there will be others that have had an exceptional good one.The hill lambers are just starting now,hopefully into warm temps and good conditions.I bet Neilo and TimW will be having good lambings near 200%,there will be plenty others the same.Even up here,LFA Northumberland,most fields still full of ewes and twins looking good.Nearly everyone lambs inside,even some hill people,they have the sheds to cope,and hold them inside when the weather is bad.This is my last year lambing outside,the weather patterns seem to be changing with too many extremes.I hate to benefit from others misfortune, but I welcome it.
Going into the last autumn/to the ram, the UK breeding flock was the largest it had been since F&M2001.
If prices can hold up to reasonable levels, and plenty folks cut back or get rid of their ewes - the rest of us might have a decent chance through the tough political years ahead...
It wont happen.We will find there are just as many ewes and lambs about this year as all the others,inspite of all the horror stories going around.For every person that has had a bad lambing,there will be others that have had an exceptional good one.The hill lambers are just starting now,hopefully into warm temps and good conditions.I bet Neilo and TimW will be having good lambings near 200%,there will be plenty others the same.Even up here,LFA Northumberland,most fields still full of ewes and twins looking good.Nearly everyone lambs inside,even some hill people,they have the sheds to cope,and hold them inside when the weather is bad.This is my last year lambing outside,the weather patterns seem to be changing with too many extremes.
Farmers always say that at the end of a tough lambing but memories fade and if lambs are a decent trade it will all be forgotten and just as many ewes will be tuppedWe shall wait and see.
I'm farther North as you, I've finished lambing and yes, there's been losses - but on the whole it's been very good.
Theres far more on here talking lesser ewes next year though
It wont happen.We will find there are just as many ewes and lambs about this year as all the others,inspite of all the horror stories going around.For every person that has had a bad lambing,there will be others that have had an exceptional good one.The hill lambers are just starting now,hopefully into warm temps and good conditions.I bet Neilo and TimW will be having good lambings near 200%,there will be plenty others the same.Even up here,LFA Northumberland,most fields still full of ewes and twins looking good.Nearly everyone lambs inside,even some hill people,they have the sheds to cope,and hold them inside when the weather is bad.This is my last year lambing outside,the weather patterns seem to be changing with too many extremes.
Farmers always say that at the end of a tough lambing but memories fade and if lambs are a decent trade it will all be forgotten and just as many ewes will be tupped
I think given high prices, the uncertainties of brexit and a very tough winter for most there will be a few older farmers or those with small flocks who could do something else that will cash out this year.