Store lambs

[cattleman123]

• What are the majority of people on here doing,
  • Putting the lambs straight onto grains with a bit of roughage and into a shed a la feed-lotting
  • Or are many of you grazing stubbles / catch crops etc. with perhaps supplemented grain?
  • Or a bit of both depending on how close they are to the chequered flag?
  • Or different again?

• Follow up question, all things averaged out, what kind of margin would you budget per lamb?

To be honest its a gamble....

 

[CopperBeech]

Some were killed off just grass / herbage and the rest off turnips or turnip / vetch / kale mix.

No grains or concretes.

 

[slaney]

To be honest its a gamble....

I do about a thousand so this won't work for the numbers your thinking of doing but I first pick out the heaviest lambs and Ad lib them for about a month after buying them this would account for about 50 lambs these are always profitable as they've been bought with bunches of lighter lambs but are factory price after just a few weeks.

Everything else is grazed till the end of November and roughly another 100 killed off grass these are also always profitable as inputs would be less than a fiver per head.

Next is the gamble

I put everything that's in the high thirties or above in the shed and ad lib them until their all gone which usually takes 5 or 6 weeks

The others are strip grazed on turnips until march or so and killed out of the field as they come fit and the very last fifty would have to get concentrates to be finished as the turnips would be gone but they're still hanging around

Hope that helps a bit

Heptavac p is a must

Dipping is great if work load allows

I also give a quarantine worm dose on arrival and then wait a month to do a fec and then do another fec when their taken off grass treating accordingly.

I use triclabendazole on arrival and again when leaving grass followed by an adult fluke wormer a month later