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Last of mine for this year gone up this afternoon , along with a couple of cull rams and a few ewes.Lambs for Kildare in the morning
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Last of mine for this year gone up this afternoon , along with a couple of cull rams and a few ewes.Lambs for Kildare in the morning
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@Mf 77157.10 at least, but my man said I’ll get more.
Thanks,great money for the time of yearDon’t mind you asking, I rang him a few minutes ago my avg price was 144 a head but didn’t get a price per kg but I recon it’s 7.30, when the sheet comes I’ll give u the price per kg
Meal and that much grass!View attachment 101925
The black ram is a bit of a bully even though he is younger and lighter than the docile texel😅
Haha. Ah no they did good work in fairness to them and had lost condition. They only get a handful of meal every so often nowadays which keeps them a bit quiet. They'll be off it soon enough. As regards the grass. It looks a lot better in the picture than real life.Meal and that much grass!
Pays to be a ram at yours!
Good luck with it👍First week of march before there's any here. Waiting for the bad weather!Your well behind then! Starting up here. Should be fflat out by Monday hopefully.
Hope this mild weather stays!!
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Thanks. So far they are good quality lambs. Not big, but heavy and equal sized. Feeding must have been good this year!Good luck with it👍First week of march before there's any here. Waiting for the bad weather!
Mountain ewes scanned 1.4, probably a few to many twins but still it's a good complaint.
Lidl are very good. Lots say good things about their meat.Just had lamb chops from Lidl for dinner. Have to say were the nicest chops i had in a long long time. Finger licking tasty.
What breed are those lambs in the first picture? They have lovely markings.Your well behind then! Starting up here. Should be fflat out by Monday hopefully.
Hope this mild weather stays!!
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Their mother is a Sufolk x.What breed are those lambs in the first picture? They have lovely markings.
There was a push here a good few years ago to do lambing 3 times in 2 years. The breed is important, Dorsets probably the best of breeds.What would happen if you lambed 3 times in a year?
As in one lot every 4 months. Or even 4 times a year?
Not the same ewes obviously, but say you had 1000, lamb groups of 3-400 ish. Use teasers to get a big group jigged up. Send in the real boys and keep an eye on raddle marks. Once a desired number is hit... Out they come.
Could it be done? Or would most breeds struggle to get in lamb out of season?
Thinking being it would spread risk in terms of weather, and allow for less inputs for the crappy winter lambing?
Might even allow for bigger numbers to be carried on the same area?
Be a lot of juggling, but with a decent EID system, why not?
No you missumderstand.There was a push here a good few years ago to do lambing 3 times in 2 years. The breed is important, Dorsets probably the best of breeds.
You're looking at a high input system as you can't allow ewes to drop in condition as they'll have to be able to go back in lamb again just 3 months after lambing. And lambs have to be weaned earlier as well so they need lots of creep feed to finish.
And recommended to just run one cycle of this in a ewes life cycle as it's a tough two years for them. You'd really need a pretty cheap source of concentrates for use over the cycle and a good fat lamb price and a good source of replacement ewes to have a chance of making it work.
Its an interesting idea but jesus once a year is enough for lambing, the thought of having to face into 3 different lambing periods but would make me plant the whole place😅No you missumderstand.
Ewe would still only lamb once in a calendar year.
But divide a big group into 3 lots. To lamb every 4 months. Or even lamb every 3 months.
Anything missing a cycle for say January lambing would fall into the May lambing and so on.
Using EID to identify who has missed two cycles then cull.