I love that he had his son with him. Over her in the US it would be considered 'unprofessional". But I think it's so important for kids to see how things are really done.
David great videos as always .Thanks for the knowledge transfer and entertainment. Its always good to experiment and everyday is a sheep school day.We have been using mallassis on our bales for the last 30 years and made an applicator from an old yard scraper frame with a hundred gallon tank mounted with a simple plastic t shaped dribble bar placed underneath ,which is the width of the silage swathe .It has a simple on off valve with a lever and is carried on a MF 35X. There are holes drilled on the plastic t bar and if you feel u need to apply more product drive slower . We would on average apply 18kilos per Mc Hale fusion bale.We have a high maintenance highly selective flock of Beltex crosses here in Co Derry and we can honestly say that it has improved our silage with increased palatability improved intakes ,great smell and intact we have managed to keep bales for up too 4 years and they have been perfect with no spoil and an almost achohol smell.However the biggest thing to note is we have never experienced a single case of twin lamb disease since applying the mallassis. Well keep up the content and goodluck
Very interesting Emmett, thank you .. I will be using it again this year when at the silage. Could you send me a few photos of your machine to sheepschool2022@gmail.com. Need to upgrade my applicator.👌
Hi David. Rab here in Antrim. I have a small Hobby type sheep farm. Running 33 ewes & 3 rams, mostly pedigree Suffolks. This year I tried a new feed campaign to do away with the meal cost. 85% swedes turnip pulped and mixed in to a combination of straights and ewe minerals. Worked well. Most clever lambs I have ever had all mad to suck this year for the breed. And colostrum milk was best yet and lamb size at birth was equal to past years on concentrates. Feeding a fiber mix of Herbal haylege and grass haylege time about. Lambing all ended on the end of January. New Year eve lambs heading up to 25 kg and they are now also eating the Swede turnip & straight ration. I Did start them on 1 25kg bag of Cooked lamb creep meal. Looking like the creep meal will be swapped for the swede regime soon. I like your formative type videos you tell it how it is the ups and the downs. Keep it up thanks Rab
Hi Rab. Good to know you are enjoying videos! Sounds like you got the nutrition right..👌 Lively lambs up sucking fast is half the battle. The other half is the ewe having enough milk for the lambs...
Welcome back Sir absolutely another fabulous beautiful upload, lovely content vloggs as always and you doing an excellent great job .. keep it Up .. respect your hard work and effort for sharing and showing around about your beautiful countryside lifestyle overthere and may God bless you and your lovely beautiful family as always .. TQSM from Mtl Cdn
Great video again, is the net energy not a bit low at 6.7 mj/kg thought it. Should be up around 10 mj/kg. Tested silage here at 75dmd and it was 11mj/kg so should replace some ration.
Thank you...👍 Yea it's very low. Would even like it a bit higher than 10. Bales were made on old pasture that wasn't reseeded in 30 years. Really can't beat a new sward....
Great video. I’ve found that using cradle feeders in the pen works. They feed little forage but often. That avoids any prolapses & means that they’re moving around rather than gorging a big feed of forage then lying around putting pressure on their gut.
Interesting video we feed half a kg to the twins and about 0-75kg for triplets but the don't get meal until about 10 days before lambing as they're on clean lush grass and lock buckets it seems to work ok but this year the meal is a shocking price
I usually keep all my ewe lambs and sell as hoggets in August/September. Should have over 250 or so this year, doubt I'll be able to run all of them over the winter...
It was grazed from March until mid May and cut 6 weeks later. Would be better to cut it in mid May but hard to have enough grass for ewes and lambs early on...
@@sheepschool365 Good man. Do you make money at the sheep? If you allow for finance costs to built a good yard like you have and to set aside money to repair roofs and repair/replace machinery etc?
Yes making money but sheep wouldn't fund it all. Thankfully got 60% grant on fencing, shed and handling race but the sheep have funded the rest plus a bit left over.. Do you think that topic would make a good video?
I guess the argument is that if you can't make good enough feed for the last 6 weeks. House them mid pregnancy when the feed is good enough and keep them off the grass to have the grass to feed for the last 6 weeks.
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I love that he had his son with him. Over her in the US it would be considered 'unprofessional". But I think it's so important for kids to see how things are really done.
You are dead right. It great to get them outside learning about the real world...👌
David great videos as always .Thanks for the knowledge transfer and entertainment. Its always good to experiment and everyday is a sheep school day.We have been using mallassis on our bales for the last 30 years and made an applicator from an old yard scraper frame with a hundred gallon tank mounted with a simple plastic t shaped dribble bar placed underneath ,which is the width of the silage swathe .It has a simple on off valve with a lever and is carried on a MF 35X. There are holes drilled on the plastic t bar and if you feel u need to apply more product drive slower . We would on average apply 18kilos per Mc Hale fusion bale.We have a high maintenance highly selective flock of Beltex crosses here in Co Derry and we can honestly say that it has improved our silage with increased palatability improved intakes ,great smell and intact we have managed to keep bales for up too 4 years and they have been perfect with no spoil and an almost achohol smell.However the biggest thing to note is we have never experienced a single case of twin lamb disease since applying the mallassis. Well keep up the content and goodluck
Very interesting Emmett, thank you ..
I will be using it again this year when at the silage.
Could you send me a few photos of your machine to sheepschool2022@gmail.com.
Need to upgrade my applicator.👌
Hi David. Rab here in Antrim. I have a small Hobby type sheep farm. Running 33 ewes & 3 rams, mostly pedigree Suffolks. This year I tried a new feed campaign to do away with the meal cost. 85% swedes turnip pulped and mixed in to a combination of straights and ewe minerals. Worked well. Most clever lambs I have ever had all mad to suck this year for the breed. And colostrum milk was best yet and lamb size at birth was equal to past years on concentrates. Feeding a fiber mix of Herbal haylege and grass haylege time about. Lambing all ended on the end of January. New Year eve lambs heading up to 25 kg and they are now also eating the Swede turnip & straight ration. I Did start them on 1 25kg bag of Cooked lamb creep meal. Looking like the creep meal will be swapped for the swede regime soon. I like your formative type videos you tell it how it is the ups and the downs. Keep it up thanks Rab
Hi Rab. Good to know you are enjoying videos!
Sounds like you got the nutrition right..👌 Lively lambs up sucking fast is half the battle. The other half is the ewe having enough milk for the lambs...
Welcome back Sir absolutely another fabulous beautiful upload, lovely content vloggs as always and you doing an excellent great job .. keep it Up .. respect your hard work and effort for sharing and showing around about your beautiful countryside lifestyle overthere and may God bless you and your lovely beautiful family as always .. TQSM from Mtl Cdn
Thank you so much for your kind comments 👍
Good knowledgable video.keep them coming
Thank you...👍
Great video again, is the net energy not a bit low at 6.7 mj/kg thought it. Should be up around 10 mj/kg. Tested silage here at 75dmd and it was 11mj/kg so should replace some ration.
Thank you...👍
Yea it's very low. Would even like it a bit higher than 10. Bales were made on old pasture that wasn't reseeded in 30 years. Really can't beat a new sward....
Great video. I’ve found that using cradle feeders in the pen works. They feed little forage but often. That avoids any prolapses & means that they’re moving around rather than gorging a big feed of forage then lying around putting pressure on their gut.
Thank you...👍
Big feeds in late pregnancy will definitely spell disaster....
Great video very interesting 👌
Thank you Gary...👍
Interesting video we feed half a kg to the twins and about 0-75kg for triplets but the don't get meal until about 10 days before lambing as they're on clean lush grass and lock buckets it seems to work ok but this year the meal is a shocking price
Great going to feed no meal until 10 days out.👌 Wouldn't like to be feeding hay this year...
Great informative videos. You really know your stuff. What breed of ewes and rams do you have?
I have a video in the pipeline on the type of sheep I'm running. Stay tuned...👌
The reason I ask is because I'd consider buying some ewe lambs of you......
I usually keep all my ewe lambs and sell as hoggets in August/September.
Should have over 250 or so this year, doubt I'll be able to run all of them over the winter...
When did you cut the silage ? Seems to be key to high dmd silage
It was grazed from March until mid May and cut 6 weeks later. Would be better to cut it in mid May but hard to have enough grass for ewes and lambs early on...
Interesting video keep them coming 👍
Thank you..👌
@@sheepschool365 What do you work at away from the farm?
Self employed engineer. Couple of workshop videos coming soon...
@@sheepschool365 Good man. Do you make money at the sheep? If you allow for finance costs to built a good yard like you have and to set aside money to repair roofs and repair/replace machinery etc?
Yes making money but sheep wouldn't fund it all. Thankfully got 60% grant on fencing, shed and handling race but the sheep have funded the rest plus a bit left over.. Do you think that topic would make a good video?
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I guess the argument is that if you can't make good enough feed for the last 6 weeks. House them mid pregnancy when the feed is good enough and keep them off the grass to have the grass to feed for the last 6 weeks.
Would work a treat if you were happy to house ewes at the point of lambing or lamb outdoors... neither option would suit everyone 🤔
Brilliant definitely born to die holy torcher 👍
😜 Sums them up alright