Stupid inventions...

[Spartacus]

I've seen some plastic credit card sized castration aid thing advertised on Facebook, absolute pointless thing, if you can get both balls down long enough to pop one of them on you've more than enough time to get a rubber ring on!

 

[primmiemoo]

Are they legal this side of the pond in any case?

 

[M-J-G]

Anyone else want to give the f**king clown that designed the under bed ramp holder on Ifor Williams trailers a fat lip?

So you have found a specific part of an Ifor Williams that is worse than the rest of the trailer, I thought each bit of them was equally as poor as the rest.

 

[Spartacus]

Are they legal this side of the pond in any case?

All it does is hold the balls while you put a ring on.

 

[primmiemoo]

All it does is hold the balls while you put a ring on.

I've got fingers for that, but not everyone else does, I suppose.

 

[M-J-G]

I've seen some plastic credit card sized castration aid thing advertised on Facebook, absolute pointless thing, if you can get both balls down long enough to pop one of them on you've more than enough time to get a rubber ring on!

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It's like someone came up with the name, and then had to invent something to match it but couldn't, so they invented a non thing.

 

[idgni]

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.

explain more how to push the head from outside please?

 

[Herdwick sheep]

I'd be worried about getting poo on the fingers and then having to go in to the womb again and introducing it there?

You just go into the bum channel not a long way up but I presume they would be unable to catch anything off something out of your own (sheep’s!!) body.
A bit like if you get a private part piercing
May be wrong but you’ll be immune to your own waste product (sheep)

 

[yoki]

You just go into the bum channel not a long way up but I presume they would be unable to catch anything off something out of your own (sheep’s!!) body.
A bit like if you get a private part piercing
May be wrong but you’ll be immune to your own waste product (sheep)

That's a decent point actually.

Although I'll skip any comment on the piercing thing!

 

[Fat Lamb]

Anyone else want to give the f**king clown that designed the under bed ramp holder on Ifor Williams trailers a fat lip?

They are the work of the devil, yet some people rave about them. My solution to the problem was to buy a Graham Edwards.

 

[primmiemoo]

It's like someone came up with the name, and then had to invent something to match it but couldn't, so they invented a non thing.

Slightly different word would have resulted in an appliance for tortoises.

 

[britt]

explain more how to push the head from outside please?

See post 66

 

[BAF]

I've seen some plastic credit card sized castration aid thing advertised on Facebook, absolute pointless thing, if you can get both balls down long enough to pop one of them on you've more than enough time to get a rubber ring on!

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I've never failed to castrate a lamb unless I've forgotten to actually apply the band to the testicles. Actually no that's a lie I failed to band 1 who didn't have any external testicles and the smallest scrotum I've ever seen. That just looks like it'll get in the way.

 

[Hill Ground]

Only seem to bother licking one and getting it going, leaving the other(s) to get chilled. If you get there on time then you might save one with glucose and a warming box, but then you have a cade.
P*sses me off to see ewes marked for triplets and quads with one lamb at foot, let alone the twin marked. Highlander ewes lambing in the same fields I will often find with three (Charollais X) lambs all full and tucked up in a bunch by mum. It's just the mothering ability that is the difference IMO.

Shedding crosses of various proportions are certainly better mothers than the 'pures' (if there is such a thing), but need to decide which way I'm going this year. The last of those Highlanders are 5yrs and older now, so last chance to stay with those if I want to. Tempted to stick an Easydam over them and stick with wool, after this Spring tbh.

I've always wondered when the walk away from a lamb like that if it's to do with the size of the lamb/how hard they have to push.

Like if they lay down and feel it come out the turn around and look for it, but if it just falls out while they're mothering the other they just wander off.

Lamb vigour makes a big difference too I suppose.

 

[primmiemoo]

I've always wondered when the walk away from a lamb like that if it's to do with the size of the lamb/how hard they have to push.

Like if they lay down and feel it come out the turn around and look for it, but if it just falls out while they're mothering the other they just wander off.

Lamb vigour makes a big difference too I suppose.

When lambing outside, I'd sometimes just watch a ewe from a distance. There would be times when the first lamb would be born very active, and totter away from the ewe instead of turning towards her to find the udder. The ewe would follow her lamb ~ whilst in the process of having the second one, which either disadvantaged the second (literally dropped and left), or the first (left to wander whilst the second is tended).

It wasn't common, but I wouldn't rule out lamb behaviour where it might look like mismothering, but that's only from observation of the type of sheep that were kept at the time.