So impressed! Love your videos and look forward to every single one. I’m not a sheep farmer but I really respect people that see the value in fixing up old machines and put them to good use! 👍🏼👏🏻
Really enjoying your videos from Nebraska, USA! Trying to get my shed ready for lambing in a couple weeks but I also work better under pressure! A lot of joint ill comes from the navel (it’s like a straw sucking up everything from the environment) but yes definitely cleaner environment the better! Good luck my friend.
Great stuff! Just started lambing my 120 Llyne cross ewes today outside, beltex x texel is better than pure texel tups in my opinion, texel tups on young sheep was a nightmare last year even with a careful ration. Good luck!
Better to use a tup on young ewes that will give you R grades with no trouble or mortality such as a Lleyn or Charrollais. The Texel breeders are taking no account of the broad heads just as long as the bums are broad and too many come out of the side. No feeding regime will alter the size of the heads or getting stuck at the hips.
If you're unlucky to buy a very hard lambing ram it can soon break your spirit, especially in your outdoor job.. Best of luck with the lambing. Hopefully the weather is with you!
You did an amazing job on the chopper but I am not sure that the flying straw with all the airborn moulds is good for the lung health of man or beast, and perhaps get eye infections.I know the fleeces are currently of little value and the hair follicles are designed to push out debris but I wouldn’t want to keep loading them up. We had to buy in big bales of barley straw. It wasn’t difficult to peel off wads and throw them into the pens. The sheep got a bit of occupational therapy rootling through it and soon spread it around. I know you didn’t want to go down the slatted route but in Ireland where straw is scarce, I would have taken that option. You can always fill it in later for alternative use. If I had my time over, I would have chosen slats.
@@sheepschool365 do watch out for the spores getting into your lungs, I had a huge issue having contracted aspergillosis. Haylage was a good thing but even the best straw gave me problems.
Great job David- loving the videos.Wish I wS as handy as yourself! Obviously stones are rare in straw near you. Mind your hands though with the spout!unfortunately spares don't come with the kit! Great breed of ewes you have there. Keep the videos rolleyn 😂
Get a A frame on the 135 I'm sure you could make one then stick a female on your link box I have a piece of strap hanging off the linkage so I can lift trailers on to the pin hitch If I had pick up hitch I wouldn't be able to use A frame because of the T bar
Thanks Paul. The chopped stuff is super in the lambing pens.. I saw Cammy had a ewe with bedding knotted around a foot. That happened here regularly before the chopper...
That's a great job you have done on it. Blowing the bedding out nicely. Would you find you'd use less straw by using this machine? What's the reach on the blow of the spout?
Have used 25% less bedding but slightly more sheep packed into shed this year. Pens are 5.5 meters wide and no problem bedding to back wall. Will blow further and faster with a 1000 rpm pto speed which I don't have at the minute.
I wouldn’t say that, look like there in good condition to me, ewes will have plenty of milk! Nothing worst than a sheep with no milk, like a pub with no beer!
How can you tell without laying your hand on their backs? As an experienced shepherd I can see they have very dense fleeces. Less feeding is likely to cause twin lamb disease and a poor lactation .
Getting body condition right is tricky but always prefer to have ewes in good nick heading out to grass with lambs at foot as I don't feed anything only grass till weaning. Poor body condition usually results in poorer lambs at weaning time in my opinion...
