Ha. That crossed my mind.
I'd be with eire here, once a year is enough
Ah with only a small group ever needing the best grub, they could be spread out. And with maybe something planted to fatten the backend born lambs. Same goes in spring when my ewes are usually licking mud for nutrients!😂
I just have one question..why would you want that hardship?🤣 There's actually a very interesting thread on the farming forum that I was reading the other day. There's a lad looking into using Dorsets and Dorpers to lamb twice a year. February and October. Keeping ewes in condition with root crops and meal would be hard going. But I do see what your proposing is a different system. Would be an interesting experiment though.
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When we use to be at the 3 lambings in 2 years, we use to start lambing around the 1st of September and finish around the 15th of May. Madness, hard on man and beast, way harder to control disease, harder keep ewes in good condition and harder keep up the enthusiasm.
Knew a man who basically lambed all year!
They are looking heavy!
I was reading about that product also, on a couple of different sites, and most of the comments were very positive.We had a couple of late lambs here that weren't thriving, 3 of them. They would get fits of drinking the bottles and then mightn't drink for the rest of the day and maybe drink 100 or 150mls the next feed. I'd mostly given up on them, we still fed them but sometimes had to use a stomach tube at night to make sure they would have enough food to keep them alive until morning.
Anyways, I was killing a few minutes online when I saw a discussion on a probiotic mix for calves that lads had used when they had a bunch of calves they weren't happy with. So I bought a bottle of it yesterday and gave 4 mls to the 3 lambs last night, more in hope than expectation.
I was a bit surprised when two of them went and drank their bottles last night, their full 300mls, and kinda shocked this morning when the same 2 drank their full bottle again, first time in at least 2 weeks. And they look much brighter today than they have for a while. The third one we're not so hopeful about, a premature lamb, very small but off her feed the last few days. We'll keep giving this for a few more days but it looks promising. They're supposed to have a special lamb product coming on stream soon as an aid against watery mouth. It's called Precision Microbes if any of you might be interested in trying it. I'll be using it next year definitely.
Edit: Just reading that, no I'm not selling it but there seems to be some effect in using it here anyway
One of our lambs was like that. She's bright and curious today but her dung has gotten solid though she's still very thin.
I haven’t sold one yet,haven’t even touched one,but mine were long keep lambs.
Nice outfit! How are ya finding the nz Suffolk lambs? Far livelier at birth aren't they than traditional Suffolks.
Thanks. I'm a big fan of Lleyn ewes. There's only 25% NZ genetics in the ram but the difference is noticeable. They are mad to get up and suck the ewe. The only negative is the lambs are bigger than the texel lambs and I have had to pull more of them.
Look at that grass ! That’s just showing off.
It's a reseed I didn't get a chance to graze off properly last back end. Want to get cows and calves on to it shortly to graze it out properly as it's going a bit strong for the ewes and lambs.
Yesterday was brutal here,the North/east wind would cut you in two,I lost a cracking gimmer lamb not helped by the b@stard crows pecking it.
You sound like my granddaughter except she did not say bastard and what she did say she did not learn from me .
