Tack for lambs

[shearerlad]

Heard prices up here of £25 per head for 1st October to 1st April (26 weeks). That's for hill hogs.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Thats interesting info. Whats the sort of stocking rate per acre then that allows them to stay for 6 months? Is that price for me looking after them?

Nominal stocking rate of 2.5 - 3 per acre, but I would paddock with electric fencing and rotate them over the course of the 6 months. I would provide all shepherding, including fallen stock disposal. Drop me a PM if you want to talk more.

 

[unlacedgecko]

There you go

I would need something a bit meatier than that to cover my costs and leave a profit.

 

[Beef farmer]

Heard prices up here of £25 per head for 1st October to 1st April (26 weeks). That's for hill hogs.

That's mental. Would there be any reason that 10 weeks of that time couldn't be on root crops?

 

[Henarar]

there must be good money in hill sheep

 

[unlacedgecko]

there must be good money in hill sheep

There's good money in Glastir payments!

 

[GTB]

There's good money in Glastir payments!

Maybe but why blow it all on tack?

 

[Recoil]

ewe lambs, we dont tup them, i have some away already, they are 60p, well fenced and he looks after them, we about 15 miles north of cardiff, just thought id try here

You can't be far from me then in Blackwood.

 

[sheepman1]

Heard prices up here of £25 per head for 1st October to 1st April (26 weeks). That's for hill hogs.

Rang about grass today. Fella had it already leased. I asked how much he got, his reply knocked me for 6!!!!! £1.05 for ewes. Think this is mad. 0.4kg of meal per head per day small bite of hay or some rough grazing would stand roughly £0.80

 

[Robertollie]

I'll take them fenced looked afterOTE="welshy, post: 1654034, member: 34354"]Any tack about for the winter from now till april for 200 lambs[/QUOTE]
Ill

 

[Robertollie]

ewe lambs, we dont tup them, i have some away already, they are 60p, well fenced and he looks after them, we about 15 miles north of cardiff, just thought id try here

ewe lambs, we dont tup them, i have some away already, they are 60p, well fenced and he looks after them, we about 15 miles north of cardiff, just thought id try here

Your only an hour from me give me a pm if interested

 

[Grassman]

@unlacedgecko can guarantee I've never mistreated a lamb/ewe. I'd more than likely be told of for the risk of drowning in the winter. As I've said ^^^ everyone must get much drier winters than me. 2sheep inspections and a whole farm inspection, they didn't seem to worry about it to much last winter.

I have 100 ewes in a field. There's a trough with 4" of water in the bottom. It's not connected to a water supply. Two weeks now and its still got the same 4" in it. And it's not rained in that time either.

 

[Beef farmer]

I have 100 ewes in a field. There's a trough with 4" of water in the bottom. It's not connected to a water supply. Two weeks now and its still got the same 4" in it. And it's not rained in that time either.

With grass @18% dm they dint need it.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I have 100 ewes in a field. There's a trough with 4" of water in the bottom. It's not connected to a water supply. Two weeks now and its still got the same 4" in it. And it's not rained in that time either.

Maybe one of them has sh!t in it

 

[Henarar]

With grass @18% dm they dint need it.

true, but are you meant to provide it

 

[neilo]

true, but are you meant to provide it

Pretty sure that's a FA requirement.

I once had a ruck of lambs on a grass reseed, that had no water supply. As it was by a road (& visible), I put a tub out that was the bottom 1/3 of a 45 gallon drum and filled it with water. Nothing drank anything from it in 2 months.

If sheep are not lactating or having hard (dry) feed, then they won't drink anything, even if you do provide it to keep the experts happy.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Pretty sure that's a FA requirement.

I once had a ruck of lambs on a grass reseed, that had no water supply. As it was by a road (& visible), I put a tub out that was the bottom 1/3 of a 45 gallon drum and filled it with water. Nothing drank anything from it in 2 months.

If sheep are not lactating or having hard (dry) feed, then they won't drink anything, even if you do provide it to keep the experts happy.

Agree with you Neil, except to say they will drink in summer months on just grass

 

[sherg]

Agree with you Neil, except to say they will drink in summer months on just grass

depends on what kind of 'summer' we get

 

[CopperBeech]

I must be a real cheapo because, there is no way in hell I would pay £1 per head. I feel like i'm getting shafted paying 60-65p per head, for good dairy ground, well fenced, with water and 3 mins from my house. . . . . .

 

[GTB]

I was always told that sheep only drink water when they come across it. I know this is not strictly true as they will walk to water during a drought or when being fed concentrates. However I'm pretty certain that sheep on grass during winter do not need a water supply but it's probably best to be seen to be doing everything by the book.