Shearing 2020

[Farmer_Joe]

Intake is more likely too be low because people like me decided it wasn’t worth the diesel too deliver it too a depot or collection centre or even the wage for someone too wrap it! ... bedded my sheds down on it this year at the start of lambing

i agree, i think their perhaps speculating people have taken it elsewhere,

like you said its barely worth the diesel!

 

[Mc115reed]

i agree, i think their perhaps speculating people have taken it elsewhere,

like you said its barely worth the diesel!

Wouldn’t of bothered paying a wool wrapper but I’d already sheared before prices became aparant

 

[Macsky]

I put a couple of trailer loads away but kept a few bags as didnt have time/couldn’t be bothered taking the last load in, so thought I’d try it under some heifers, power line boys were chipping some branches nearby so got a tipper load of wood chip too, it’s going in one after the other, letting it get black before the next covering goes on so well mixed, makes a good bed at least. Theres 3 bags under them already. There’s some rushes needing topped not far from the steading so they’re getting covered with this when it gets mucked out.

 

[beefandsleep]

I put a couple of trailer loads away but kept a few bags as didnt have time/couldn’t be bothered taking the last load in, so thought I’d try it under some heifers, power line boys were chipping some branches nearby so got a tipper load of wood chip too, it’s going in one after the other, letting it get black before the next covering goes on so well mixed, makes a good bed at least. Theres 3 bags under them already. There’s some rushes needing topped not far from the steading so they’re getting covered with this when it gets mucked out.
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Christ, look what it’s come to! To think the foundation of this countries wealth was made with wool. Imagine what a medieval peasant would think if he could see that when a sheep’s fleece would pay a yearly wage.

 

[Macsky]

Christ, look what it’s come to! To think the foundation of this countries wealth was made with wool. Imagine what a medieval peasant would think if he could see that when a sheep’s fleece would pay a yearly wage.

Aye it’s ridiculously undervalued as a fibre, but spreading it back on the ground certainly closes the loop a bit on the nutrient cycle, which seems to be much more important these days!

 

[Mc115reed]

Aye it’s ridiculously undervalued as a fibre, but spreading it back on the ground certainly closes the loop a bit on the nutrient cycle, which seems to be much more important these days!

Mucked my lambing shed out at the weekend ... just shy of 400 fleeces in it on the base layer for bedding and you could barely tell there was any wool in there it’s really rotted in with the straw well it has

 

[beefandsleep]

Time for someone to breed some proper shedding texels?

 

[Macsky]

Mucked my lambing shed out at the weekend ... just shy of 400 fleeces in it on the base layer for bedding and you could barely tell there was any wool in there it’s really rotted in with the straw well it has

How much of an area did that cover? Did you save much straw?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Time for someone to breed some proper shedding texels?

@Woolless already does.

 

[Woolless]

@Woolless already does.

Well, shedding composites with a varying proportion of Texel blood anyway. I see them as being self-replacing rather than a terminal sire.

 

[Mc115reed]

How much of an area did that cover? Did you save much straw?

Not sure on area but had 300 ewes on it.... probably used a tad less but I think the bedding stayed a lot dryer

 

[beefandsleep]

Well, shedding composites with a varying proportion of Texel blood anyway. I see them as being self-replacing rather than a terminal sire.

A shedding terminal sire isn’t really necessary though, no point throwing the baby out with the bath water, it’s commercial ewes that need to lose their wool.

 

[Tubbylew]

I put a couple of trailer loads away but kept a few bags as didnt have time/couldn’t be bothered taking the last load in, so thought I’d try it under some heifers, power line boys were chipping some branches nearby so got a tipper load of wood chip too, it’s going in one after the other, letting it get black before the next covering goes on so well mixed, makes a good bed at least. Theres 3 bags under them already. There’s some rushes needing topped not far from the steading so they’re getting covered with this when it gets mucked out.
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Wanted to do the same hear but pops vetoed the idea, it's only about six bags now but next year it'll be twelve, gonna start taken up some room then!

 

[Woolless]

A shedding terminal site isn’t really necessary though, no point throwing the baby out with the bath water, it’s commercial ewes that need to lose their wool.

Yes, spot on. Probably best if the terminal x lambs look 'normal'.