- Location
- flintshire
where is the best place to get a decent durable bucket for the lambing pen, lot are the cheap hard plastic that crack as the slight kick of a sheep's foot !! want something that will take a kick and maybe a hurl at the staff !!!
lambing pen buckets
- Thread starter danpwll
- Start date
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
Buy a pallet of Downland Opti-lixx...
You'll get 50, 20kg buckets with handles for 'free'
You'll get 50, 20kg buckets with handles for 'free'
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
JFC ones have the qualities required, as do Lamina ones - I've found.
They are less hefty than lick buckets, but take up less room in the pen.
They are less hefty than lick buckets, but take up less room in the pen.
Buy a pallet of Downland Opti-lixx...
You'll get 50, 20kg buckets with handles for 'free'
And get as many drowned lambs as you want.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
- Location
- Easter ross
Out of 3000 lambs in 3 yrs think we had one drown in a optilix bucket, 1 too many but can handle that
- Location
- flintshire
Bought a pile of bucket holders in a sale other day so can hang bucket higher to save lambs in buckets , had one fall in bum first , was so funny seeing him !
Headless chicken
Member
- Location
- West Wales
Hoof proof buckets can take a good fling
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
That's easy for you to say!
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
take up a lot of space thoughBuy a pallet of Downland Opti-lixx...
You'll get 50, 20kg buckets with handles for 'free'
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
We use 2 of them (1 for water, 1 for feed) in each 4ftx4ft pen.
Space, or lambs drowning, have never been an issue. I lamb outside though, so it's just for problems...
primmiemoo
Member
- Location
- Devon
What about disposal costs, though? And one good bucket @ £5 kept for 6 years earns its keep. My good ones cost less than a fiver each, btw. They're more like £3.
new ones bought last year costing 97p, 90% are intact.
disposal, empty bucket maybe 400g
350g plastic
50g steel handle.
plastic disposal at £100 per tonne = 4p per bucket.
scrap steel at £90 per tonne = 0.5p
disposal cost total = 3.5p per bucket.
total cost and disposal = 84.3p ex vat.
someone else can calculate yearly cost at a 10% replacement rate. For me its no brainer.
disposal, empty bucket maybe 400g
350g plastic
50g steel handle.
plastic disposal at £100 per tonne = 4p per bucket.
scrap steel at £90 per tonne = 0.5p
disposal cost total = 3.5p per bucket.
total cost and disposal = 84.3p ex vat.
someone else can calculate yearly cost at a 10% replacement rate. For me its no brainer.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Surely you have to include your time of traveling to the scrappy with the 10 bucket handles and the £60 minimum charge for plastic disposal? Ha, your buckets are looking expensive now....
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I have piles of Denis Brinicombe tubby buckets, collected over the last 30 years. They are flat bottomed, so less likely to fall over & spill, high enough to prevent all but the brightest lamb going for a swim, and it saves me a trip to the recycling centre with them. I might have one a year split, but then I'm only using about 40 these days, and only then for a short time.
Unfortunately their cocci buckets are bigger now and seem to have small holes in the side, so I will have to keep my stash.
Unfortunately their cocci buckets are bigger now and seem to have small holes in the side, so I will have to keep my stash.
- Location
- West Wales
I’ve mainly got these, not as strong as the older version but still havnt bought any for 10+ years? Use old crystalyx tubs for feed as they are removed and put into hay racks after feeding.
