For faster sorting and just easy visual ID in the field I tag my lambs: left ear ewe lamb, right ear ram lamb. Enjoying your videos, thought using the radio outdoors was a bit of comedy, but apparently not!
Great to see a different sheep video, you have a good looking flock of sheep 🐑 🐏. I also enjoy Sheep Games and Sheepishly Me, have you watched any of their videos. Wonderful that your daughter gets involved and she has lovely curly hair. Keep up the great work, hence I have subscribed.
Great video as always. I couldn't have put my finger on why but aye that ram lamb didn't look quite right. Hope he's recovering well and the kids are enjoying the school hols!
A former flock owner (pedigree Suffolks) keeps reminding me 'Dunno While I had them had No time (family) No grass No money their only saving Grace No Ragwort/ Ragweeds', Now full-time suckler (AA) Happy Out 😊 💰 Great Vlog 👍
Ewe lambs are a credit to you, as for the dose I would have dosed them anyway, even with the egg count of 100 , they look to have a fair amount of a burden and even though the adult burden may not be huge, I would think that they have a good few immature ones in them and if you wait for them to start laying eggs you were going to have a serious problem. A dose is not a major expense when you take into consideration what you stand to lose in weight gain if they stop thriving for a few weeks due to excessive worm burden. Keep horseing the cobalt into them you won’t believe what a difference it makes.
@@sheepschool365 cobalt B12 cheap and cheerful put it in them every 3 weeks or so , also give them a shot of liquid thrive ( cattle) instead of it at weaning as we are very low in copper . Be careful with copper as it is toxic to sheep if you even have a small amount available to them in the grass, we blood test a random sample every few years and do a herbage test every few years as well and to date we are that deficient we needed copper for fertility and thrive. Bought a battery powered dosing gun a while ago and it makes the job so much easier, on line not particularly expensive either.
Fair play, thanks for getting back to me. I'll have a look around and see if I can pick one up. It would make life alot easier. Thanks again. Great video
First😄 Great video, I always see store lambs are better sold at the end of July because the price always drops when the big supply hits the market. I dose routinely without doing egg counts but I do it for peace of mind really, I think this year is going to be bad for fluke.
Great videos. Having the same problem with scour. I sampled end of July but went ahead and drenched. Similar result as no worm burden but still the lambs are scouring. I've put it down to the large quantity of wet grass this year. Couldn't figure out why I had the shabby ears...now I know. Can't win but going to mineral drench. Iain m, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Thanks Iain, it has been a difficult year for lambs. My ewes are even a bit dirty this year which would be unusual. Weather related too I'm guessing...
Very good video, thank you Radio in shed is a great idea, did it work outside ? I wouldnt have dosed them based on test results, the whole purpose of testing. Definitely give mineral regularky during growth phases until hogget.
I do give my lambs cobalt selenium boluses three times or so through the growing season. Great jobe. Also, I do give them the oral mineral wrench on top of it. Hardly any dry ears then.
@@sheepschool365 hello! Great videos 👍 I purchase mayo healthcare cobalt 12 guard boluses. They're a small bolus You can get an applicator gun for them also. I do wait until the lambs are about a month old for the first bolus. I do then give them 3ml cobalt 12 oral liquid on top of it as well. My land is a little mineral deficient . You know the old saying prevention is the best cure. I found where I live. I had to put a bolus down once a month to keep them thriving right. On the box it says every 6 to 8 weeks but I found out quickly that I had to do it once a month they were using The bolus up very quick for me here where I live in North mayo. I do give my adult ewes and breeding replacements the four in one all guard bolus then. It's a much larger one. The five in one bolus has copper in it. I'm just a bit sceptical about the copper so I feel more comfortable with the four in one. But each one to their own as they say. 😉👍
Thank you so much Linda. Ada and Enya are very excited to get their 1st ever comment on RU-vid 😊 Worm burdens are always higher in wet weather and we have had nothing else since May...
Hi David I'm thinking of buying tru test weigh head stick reader and weighting scales I was going to go for grant were did you buy your weigh head and stick reader thanks?
Bought Agrident reader and software from George in TGM Software. Load cell and Trutest clock came from Stanley Equipment in Portlaois. Is it a 40 or 60% grant for that equipment on Tams 3?
Have you thought of keeping them with sand ? That mud is recipe for bugs and maggots ? with sand the water does not stay that much on top of the substrate.
I would have dosed . We had some lambs obviously worm and had a low FEC the vet said it could be sporadic egg release as once wormed they picked up no end. Nothing better than a good shepherd’s eye for detecting things
We aim to continually reduce capital input. So would only drench where needed. Those ones are then maked and culled at a future date. Also keep a mineral / salt block in the paddock. Genetically weak animals become fertilizer.
@@sheepschool365 Himalayan rock salt. Animals choose this one. Give yours some options and see what they go for. Could vary paddock to paddock. I noticed the sheep on pasture near the ocean don't need any extra minerals. Nice white glow to them. No scabby ear The sheep and cattle on Inland pasture really go for the Himalayan rock salt. I've recently been giving the Inland sheep straight sea water as an experiment. See if I can recreate the white glow, especially on the lambs ears, the coastal sheep have. The fruit trees are benefiting from straight seawater also. One of nature's magic formulas.
Don't get caught in briars and scrub when away on winter grazing. Also see a great thrive in lambs but only if they're kept on good grass afterwards. Think I chat about it in my 2nd video: Secret to profit in farming.
What is that eid reader you are using in these videos iam thinking of buying 1 for reading tags on store lambs iam buying for fattening what readers you think is best for reading tags and recording lwg
My reader is an Agrident APR600. Quite good with keypad for recording loads of different data. A reader which only scans tag and sends in to the clock by bluetooth would suit your job. Speak to George in TGM Software.
