- Location
- Montgomeryshire
The string works as a head noose, presuming you mean a bit to tuck round the back of an errant head, behind the ears?
Stupid inventions...
- Thread starter killie_cowboy
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The string works as a head noose, presuming you mean a bit to tuck round the back of an errant head, behind the ears?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
How would you manage to hang them with a loop of wire/string round the back of the head.
I’ve never been able to get on with one of those Y shaped things (bought in a bucket at a farm sale), or know anyone that rates them.
- Location
- North Yorkshire
No, get the feet, put strings on and shove them back. With feet out of the way can usually draw the head one way or another then the feet follow on the end of the strings.
Not so much a stupid invention, but stupidity in itself......why can't they just print, in big clear words, the mixing instructions for milk powder ? Every year it's the same, fannying about squinting at an essay of tiny print trying to find the only bit that matters, how many scoops in how much water. Drives me mad, have reached the conclusion that none of the people designing feed bags have ever actually fed a lamb.
Have you tried glasses?
Or writing it down.
- Location
- leics/warks border
I had one of those and couldn't get on with it.
I now pull the legs, with or without a rope, and push the head into the pelvis from outside. Much quicker than trying to get something around the head and less intrusion has to be better at avoiding infections.
Never off my head.
Once found it is written down. Is it the same dilution rate across all brands ? Probably not, so every season it's a stupid, pointless exercise having to do a new instruction sheet. Same with colostrum powder. Just print it in big clear words ffs.
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Or giving the little darlings away so you don’t have the mither
And another thing, wormers, why the fudge do they give a dose rate down to 10kg but stop at 70kg ? Anyone less familiar with their sheep may understandably assume from the label that none of their ewes are going to be heavier than 70kg. Are these drug firms actively trying to promote underdosing and hence resistance ? Or are the labels again designed by idiots who have never wormed a sheep ? Why not print the dose rate up to 90kg to ensure it encompasses most breeds ?
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- JanDeGrootLand
And they dont include a scoop in the bag or tell how big it should be. Got to get the scales out and weigh EXACTLY it says.
Yes it is, we have one of those Y shaped things and have used it but it is a faff
Be interesting to see a vid of @britt pushing the head up from outside
- Location
- East Ayrshire
If he can pull the legs, push the head from outside AND take a video at the same time I'll be very impressed!
That has made me chuckle, what were they thinking
The ewe can hold the phone
- Location
- leics/warks border
You beat me to it.
Pull with the right hand, better without ropes if you can grip well enough, so don't need so much reach, and push the head with the left. It's surprising how well you can feel the head through the side of the sheep. Push with the fingers and thumb to steer it.
- Location
- leics/warks border
Yes, always feet back in to get the head pointing in the right direction.
But, and we are talking about those (hopefully!) few exceptionally tight cases for whatever reason, it is rather counter-intuitive to be putting all the pressure on the legs if the head is what you need to shift.
So a loup of wire behind the little lugs with a handle on the end for one hand, pull the legs by whatever means with the other.
I maybe only use it two or three times per year, just once this year I think, but wouldn't be without one.
Probably should mention, the wire they're made off (electrical presumably) will bend but isn't flexible so you shape it and push it in as required from the outside with one hand and then guide it over the little lugs with the other.
I actually agree on that, like War and Peace on some bags.