Trials & Challenges - Bigger Problems Than Expected!
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- In today’s video, we’re tackling some important sheep farming tasks, starting with setting up the mobile race to mineral dose and bolus my sheep. It’s a job I’ve never done before pre-tupping, but concerns over mineral deficiencies affecting fertility have made it a priority this year. My student, Cian, who helped during lambing time, is back on the farm to lend a hand, while Robbie takes on the firewood splitting duties.
We first work through the hogget ewes, commenting on their condition following a previous dip, before moving on to the main mob of 200 ewes. Along the way, we encounter challenges such as age-related issues, bad mouths, bottle jaw, and recovering from maggot strike. The focus then shifts to the ram lambs, where we address what appears to be a cobalt deficiency by drenching and bolusing them.
As part of an on-farm trial, Cian picks out two lambs from a group of 10 that have not been supplemented with cobalt this year-and the difference is clear! My 4-year-old daughter, Enya, also gets involved in the farm work, helping us along the way. It’s a busy day of trials, challenges, and insights into managing sheep health.
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You are a great teacher and sheep farming ambassador. Cheers to you, Robbie, Enya, Noah and Cian. 👍😊👍
Thank you Linda, cheers ☺️
Good to start a sunday morning binge with this video
Glad you enjoy it 👌
Always great fun and educational, thanks a lot
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi lad that was a great job with all your class sheep 🐑 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
As always David another great video 👌
Love your videos. very educational and love watching.
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying the videos 👌
Me and my children have just started out in the sheep world after watching your videos your sheep look amazing we've gone for the welsh badger face as we are from South Wales
Ah great video again Guys. Superb. 😂
Funny thing is Davie, we have all got ideas on a permanent handling system, then it keeps getting moved further down the list 😂😂, enjoyed the video
Thanks George, we'll get there some day 😀
We had a case of Barbers Pole here, Safeguard worked wonders on it
Another great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Good stuff
Loving my backpack, really speeds up drenching
Thanks Ed, good to hear it's making life easier 👍
Interesting to know what signs to look for ,with cobalt deficiency,learn something new each day
Every day's a school day ☺️
I wound up looking up some info on Strongyle vs Strongyloides. I learned a lot. Thanks!
An interesting topic 👌
Interesting video
Cheers Ronald 👌
Good see ye boys in action no.end work in farming
Never ending but could be at worse 😉
Due to anthelmintic resistance, COWP ( Copper oxide wire particles) have been trialed to control Haemonchus contortus in the US in goats and some breeds of sheep not as prone to Copper toxicity. Interestingly, showed to be more effective in lambs than ewes. There've also been studies using fungi spores to control worms. Whatever happened to the rescue border collie you were training?
You should have 20 or 30 in your pocket a long you leg for 10 or 15 minutes first to warm bullets not good giving them without that because like putting an ice cube into stomach and when you let her go she starts coughing and throws it up I was at same thing last week and 2 them put it up and they were ones that started coughing and I had them warmed a bit first
That's interesting. Never heard that before 👍
@@sheepschool365 they say everyday get up learn something new 👍
Fit not fat is the key too lots of twins .
Dead right. I find the Lleyn ewes hard working mothers and pretty thin at weaning especially the twin rearing ewes. I'm finding the really fat ewes at tupping time didn't rear very good lambs.
@@sheepschool365 this is because she's not feeding her lambs enough,she's keeping herself well fed, where as a fit sheep most of the time will put her energy into her lambs ! I have bred my own texel x nc mules and I'm putting them to charolais rams .there fit, nothing worse than a fat sheep I find they usually have a single, to thin and you get a triple 🤦♂️and a ewe that cant feed two lambs !!! Sheep who'd keep them only a mad man haha and it seems there's lots of mad men and women around! Look forward to your next video, your tips are valuable especially your prolapse rope trick !!!
David do you ever footbath your sheep ?
Personally wouldn’t want to keep the one with an abscess. She’ll probably be a constant source of infection, lambs will probably be the same.
She will go along with the culls, no room for passengers 👌
How easy are your sheep at lambing? Fertility rate?
Pretty good at lambing time. Less than 10% lambing difficulties. Usually scan 180-200% with 70% twins.
@@sheepschool365 that’s great! Thank you for the information!
Why don't you have one drenching and one doing bolusing
We were after doing an 8 hour shift in the workshop and didn't want to sicken Cian with work 🤣
if you feel your ewes are a bit lean - why not flush them with some sheep pallets for that final bit before the rams go out - 1 lamb v's 2 - it just might be worth the investment - don't know how many bags a day you would need really depend on the amount of ewes in the field - do one field of ewes then you can work out whether the investment $$$ in worth it 150 v's 189% is a lot of $$
So, increasing feed just before they meet the ram gives them a higher chance of having twins?
@@PotatoBodo The flushing process 3 weeks prior tups go out involves increasing sheep nutrition and energy intake before breeding season starts. This elevated nutrition helps optimize ovulation, conception and embryo implantation rates, which can result in a higher lambing percentage. - a lean ewe is more likely to have a single
Great definition of flushing 👌
@@sheepschool365 Thanks David - a quick memo for the girls (ewe's) a set of live twins each is all that is asked for - don't go crazy
So you want them thin or not fat but getting plenty to eat. Going into a bulking phase so to speak?
Why don't you bolus the ewes?
After looking at the difference in the lambs it really is something I need to consider in the future!
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