What do you do with the C***p lambs at weaning ?

[andybk]

just weaning a group today , 196% in the spring char flock prob one of best weaning % we had for some time , with that number though there is a handful of carp lambs 20-25 kg ish and skinny ,where a few ewes had mastitis and couple trips etc , what do most people do with them , keep them inside and creep get them gone at some point or turn them away with others and provide some fox / badger food , as bound to find them dead under a hedge in few months , just wonder what the bigger flocks do !

 

[Mc115reed]

Run them into the store ring

 

[Tubbylew]

Run them with the ewes for 12 months and sell them in the culls, I've often wondered if I should just get them straight into the stores before the rest and save the best 'til last.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

just weaning a group today , 196% in the spring char flock prob one of best weaning % we had for some time , with that number though there is a handful of carp lambs 20-25 kg ish and skinny ,where a few ewes had mastitis and couple trips etc , what do most people do with them

sell them to @Anymulewilldo

 

[Jop]

Generally we just try and keep them alive till the following spring and then sell them then either fat or as stores.

 

[Six Dogs]

It’s not a case of trying to be clever but early intervention is the key we lift anything that’s not 17kg at 9 weeks onto ad lib pellets but by the time you get to weaning the change in those lambs is massive

 

[andybk]

sell them to @Anymulewilldo

lol , likes the knackerman does he

 

[andybk]

It’s not a case of trying to be clever but early intervention is the key we lift anything that’s not 17kg at 9 weeks onto ad lib pellets but by the time you get to weaning the change in those lambs is massive

yea your prob right , we try and run pure sheep as extensively as possible to sort the genetics out , to be fair they didnt look to bad 6 weeks ago ,(rest are pretty good @ 40-60kg with some cover ) little -uns soon get a hiding when prot/energy drops out the grazing in july .

 

[Hill Ground]

A jab of 2% cydectin can do those types some good. Then hope they make it until spring.

Hoggs still a good trade right till June nowadays

 

[Macsky]

Got decent grass that you could put them on? Dose of zolvix and a mineral drench (a dip if possible) and plenty fresh bite and it might surprise what they’d do in a month. 20kg isn’t runt territory in my book

 

[andybk]

A jab of 2% cydectin can do those types some good. Then hope they make it until spring.

Hoggs still a good trade right till June nowadays

I drenched with cydectin today on vet advice (never used it before ) , we had a resistant worm issue last autumn on one farm with ivermectin didnt want to go through that again this year when autumn rains start .

 

[andybk]

Got decent grass that you could put them on? Dose of zolvix and a mineral drench (a dip if possible) and plenty fresh bite and it might surprise what they’d do in a month. 20kg isn’t runt territory in my book

yea moved others on fresh aftermath , problem is public , landlord lets out his pool to public (kids) and he has one of those dog walking enterprises across track ,

 

[Macsky]

yea moved others on fresh aftermath , problem is public , landlord lets out his pool to public and there is one of those dog walking enterprises across track ,

Joy.

 

[Hill Ground]

Yeah, the jab is lasts even longer than the drench. None of the persistent ones are very clever from a resistance point of view, but hopefully OK if it's only a few!

 

[ladycrofter]

A different philosophy here. Get them off by tupping, out of the way. Let someone else faff with them. £20 to you, or give the money to the knacker.
Actually prices are very good just now, so you'd get much more.
I don't like keeping runts and poor doers in the hope that by some divine intervention they might turn into good fat lambs. I recon something is wrong with them, regardless of the reason, and they're probably shitting worm eggs, cocci, and god knows what else out everywhere 24/7. Get rid for the sake of the rest of the flock.

 

[Jasper]

There’s only one way that’s the Geko way

 

[M-J-G]

Do a fecal egg count and worm accordingly, get them onto some clean grazing and chuck them a bit of feed for a bit.
If they are just badly done due to mothers with mastitis etc, there's no reason why they won't mend.

 

[Radio]

A farmer from NZ said they put them in the swede field early at 3 an acre , didn’t affect swede growth and lambs grow on. What has worked here is to shear them September and it’s surprising how they've grown by Spring.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Got decent grass that you could put them on? Dose of zolvix and a mineral drench (a dip if possible) and plenty fresh bite and it might surprise what they’d do in a month. 20kg isn’t runt territory in my book

I was thinking that I class a runt as sub 15kg at weaning

 

[Macsky]

I was thinking that I class a runt as sub 15kg at weaning

If you lift it over the race with one hand no effort to spare it a squishing, then it’s a runt, won’t manage that with 20kg