Price for dagging

[pgk]

What are people paying for dagging ewes, 150 with handling system and equipment supplied by dagger.

 

[sean m]

What are people paying for dagging ewes, 150 with handling system and equipment supplied by dagger.

think @unlacedgecko priced this a week or two back

 

[pgk]

think @unlacedgecko priced this a week or two back

Thank you found it! Expect have to charge more in the Cotswolds than Lincolnshire with the higher cost of living!

 

[unlacedgecko]

think @unlacedgecko priced this a week or two back

Thanks for the tag.

Thank you found it! Expect have to charge more in the Cotswolds than Lincolnshire with the higher cost of living!

My prices haven't changed. 50p per treatment per head, subject to a minimum charge based on distance travelled etc.

All prices plus VAT.

 

[Mc115reed]

Thanks for the tag.


My prices haven't changed. 50p per treatment per head, subject to a minimum charge based on distance travelled etc.

All prices plus VAT.

Do you do them using one of these fancy air operated crush thingy mabobbymajobs iv seen people using? Considering having all mine dagged before I put them in the shed for lambing around December but worried about the stress on the animal and not sure about how these posh machines hold the sheep when in lamb?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Do you do them using one of these fancy air operated crush thingy mabobbymajobs iv seen people using? Considering having all mine dagged before I put them in the shed for lambing around December but worried about the stress on the animal and not sure about how these posh machines hold the sheep when in lamb?

no I use a combi clamp. My handling system is built around one.

I‘ve pre lamb crutched ewes in it before. Not had any ill effects reported so far...

 

[pgk]

Thanks for the tag.


My prices haven't changed. 50p per treatment per head, subject to a minimum charge based on distance travelled etc.

All prices plus VAT.

Thanks.

 

[Mc115reed]

no I use a combi clamp. My handling system is built around one.

I‘ve pre lamb crutched ewes in it before. Not had any ill effects reported so far...

That’s good too hear then I’ll have too see if I can find somebody a bit more local to me before December I doubt youd want too travel all this way for £150 [emoji23]

 

[puppet]

Do it yourself. One of the most satisfying jobs on a farm. Up the race, shears down each side, minimal stress.

 

[Mc115reed]

Do it yourself. One of the most satisfying jobs on a farm. Up the race, shears down each side, minimal stress.

Iv got 300 to do and they’ll all be in lamb so I’d rather pay somebody to do it who is set up too handle heavily inlamb sheep than grabbing them in a race by hand

 

[Dyffryn]

Doing them in a race is the kindest way of crutching them when in lamb. But you don't do as god a job as when you turn them over. Buy your self a cordless handpiece and away you go. Did all of our 700 with it this year. Didnt take long.

 

[puppet]

Doing them in a race is the kindest way of crutching them when in lamb. But you don't do as god a job as when you turn them over. Buy your self a cordless handpiece and away you go. Did all of our 700 with it this year. Didnt take long.

Correct. I would not want someone cowping my in-lamb ewes no matter how expert they are. Just reverse up to the sheep and do it from one side or between your legs which keeps the wool and skin stretched a bit. No need to catch any sheep just let them stand as long as your back is supple.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Doing them in a race is the kindest way of crutching them when in lamb. But you don't do as god a job as when you turn them over. Buy your self a cordless handpiece and away you go. Did all of our 700 with it this year. Didnt take long.

A combi clamp doesn't turn them over. They're held in a standing position.

 

[Dyffryn]

You still squash them. And in my experience of using one your much faster and kinder to the sheep just doing them in a race.

 

[unlacedgecko]

You still squash them. And in my experience of using one your much faster and kinder to the sheep just doing them in a race.

I haven't got the back or the handpiece skills to do that.