The happy lambing thread

neilo

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We had a lamb last year that was the smallest of a set of trips, smallest lamb I have ever seen, never weighed her, but if she had weighed a kilo I would have been amazed. She was literally the size of my hand but had the strongest suck reflex ever. Had to be careful not to allow her to over indulge in milk as she ended up looking like a rugby ball after feeding. Out of all the pets she was the toughest, most bolshy and went on to do fine. She was of course named Tiny.

I have one just the same right now. It's a 3/4 NZ Texel twin that has been rejected by her first 2 dams and is now back in on the machine. She's a week old now and just over a kilo, but has so much fight in her I keep giving her a chance. Lord knows if she'll ever come to anything though....
 
This morning's surprise annoyance; my only single expecting ewe (also early although I'm wondering if this is a ram effect now) has a nice ram lamb but not a pet in sight! But hey it's alive. Why is it 50 weeks of the year the wind comes from the West and South W est where we are well protected and the two weeks we lamb it comes out of the North and East which is less sheltered?
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After a horrible first few days, things seem to be settling down. Very pleased to find my ewe lambs shelling peas this morning. Less than an hour start to finish and up and suckling in less than no time. Hope you can see there's two.

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Also want to celebrate these two who spat out five lambs between them for the seventh or eighth time each. I have promised them at least next year off if not permanent retirement. They are fiercely maternal of everyone's lambs so I'm hoping they will continue to be fox guard/get the lambs under the trees it's raining for at least a few more years.
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SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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