scottishlass 57 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Are you lambing outdoors? Uphere folks are just aboot finished there indoor one i should only have another week or so on night shift well i am hoping that anyways. My other half is on his second shed lambing only a hill lambing left to do and its back to having a life again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Fooking lambing..im sick to death of it.. ..the skin on my hands is split to bits from iodine and after birth and i had to pull two rotton ones out of a hog the other night and could i hell get rid of the smell of my hand's..and i was helping the farmer pull a rotton one last week which the two front leg's came of when pulled..we ended up pulling it inch by inch and attatching string to each bit of the body that was pulled..when got to the rib cage it popped as it was gassed up and it sprayed rotton blood in my face and up my arm.. :sick: .. He has just shy of 500 ewes in lamb and should be through them all by the end of the week..obviously they will be a few late ones to lamb but the weather should be warm enough for them to lamb out side by then.. Just one question for you mate.. do you dose the lambs with scour halt when you iodine them.. i only ask because the only two that got missed with the stuff here have gone down in a bad way with some kind of lamness and will probably have to be culled. Yes I do, that problem is common when you dont do it. As for the rotten ones you do get them from time to time and obviously more so in a larger flock. % of the un-born lambs growth happens in the last four weeks of the ewes pregnancy and this is also the most common time for metabolic diseases to occur. The rotten lamb foetuses you have had are probably down to abortion. Most flocks suffer abortion caused by infection, rough handling, or barging at the feed trough. A normal incidence in usually 1-2%. Enzootic abortion and toxoplasmosis account for % of abortions and both can be controlled by management and vaccines. It is not a very nice job to be dealing with physically as well as emotionally. I hope the above information is useful to you! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Are you lambing outdoors? Uphere folks are just aboot finished there indoor one i should only have another week or so on night shift well i am hoping that anyways. My other half is on his second shed lambing only a hill lambing left to do and its back to having a life again. Some of our ewes have lambed unexpectedly early this year and so some have lambed outside, this is a bit of a nightmare. We have brought them all in today and so they rest can lamb in the safty of being in a shed in the main farmyard close to the house so that I can keep an eye on them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trapperman 474 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Heres my latest, born today at 3pm a nice little ewe lamb this is the forth so far, 2 ewe lambs and twin ram lambs, i have 3 more to lamb 2 i think with singles and 1 with twins. About 15mins old. Also had a couple of nanny kids. And a few thousand baby bees lol. Its certainly that reproductive time of year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Thank's for the reply to my little question and your answer is very informative to me.. .. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Millet 4,497 Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 I should of mentioned this on my last post.. .. your stock look's in very good condition and equally good living condition's.. . and them sheep with horn's look good for catching when the need arrises..the farm i lamb on has various cross sheep Texils/suffolks/mules and none of them have horns which i sometimes wish they did when have wrestling them and dosing them for worm's..your new bee picture really interest's me a i have been thinking about doing that for year's but for some reason or other i have never got around too it..i must read up a little more on the bee's. Cheer's and good luck with your lambing season. . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 I am glad to here that it was helpful. PM me if you have any other questions and i will always be glad to help. Those are lovely pictures. What breeds of Goat and Sheep do you have? Certainly with my Shetlands, although some do not have horns, they are a great help when you need to catch them up!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chimp 299 Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 6 kg more weight on my texels (no doubt all in the gut lol) , i have a couple of norfolk horns on there way and might give some jacobs a go Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 I am glad to here that it was helpful. PM me if you have any other questions and i will always be glad to help. Those are lovely pictures. What breeds of Goat and Sheep do you have? Certainly with my Shetlands, although some do not have horns, they are a great help when you need to catch them up!! They shetlands are so small that i can lift them with one hand when i am shearing Yes defiantly! I crossed some of mine with Hampshire down this year to see if they had better carcass Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Fooking lambing..im sick to death of it.. ..the skin on my hands is split to bits from iodine and after birth and i had to pull two rotton ones out of a hog the other night and could i hell get rid of the smell of my hand's..and i was helping the farmer pull a rotton one last week which the two front leg's came of when pulled..we ended up pulling it inch by inch and attatching string to each bit of the body that was pulled..when got to the rib cage it popped as it was gassed up and it sprayed rotton blood in my face and up my arm.. :sick: .. He has just shy of 500 ewes in lamb and should be through them all by the end of the week..obviously they will be a few late ones to lamb but the weather should be warm enough for them to lamb out side by then.. Just one question for you mate.. do you dose the lambs with scour halt when you iodine them.. i only ask because the only two that got missed with the stuff here have gone down in a bad way with some kind of lamness and will probably have to be culled. Yes I do, that problem is common when you dont do it. As for the rotten ones you do get them from time to time and obviously more so in a larger flock. % of the un-born lambs growth happens in the last four weeks of the ewes pregnancy and this is also the most common time for metabolic diseases to occur. The rotten lamb foetuses you have had are probably down to abortion. Most flocks suffer abortion caused by infection, rough handling, or barging at the feed trough. A normal incidence in usually 1-2%. Enzootic abortion and toxoplasmosis account for % of abortions and both can be controlled by management and vaccines. It is not a very nice job to be dealing with physically as well as emotionally. I hope the above information is useful to you! I worked in animal research for 10 years and did about 70 lambings. We did research toxoplasmosis and chlamydia. The number of lambs lost was horrendous. I cam imagine. I have never heard of chlamydia in sheep before tho. Is it just like it is in humans? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moll. 1,769 Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Lost more ewes and lambs this year than ever before. The severe winter meant having to feed, which has led to fat ewe's and big lambs, a bad combination. The knacker man told us all the farms are in the same way local, ewes dropping like flies. Heart breaking for the ewes with rotten lambs. They are in labour a very long time and just cannot pass them. And to make matters worse there are a load of Hogs in lamb this year, completely wild, forget they have even given birth Look forward to this time of year though, very little sleep for weeks but worth it when the lambs arrived fit and well Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trapperman 474 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I am glad to here that it was helpful. PM me if you have any other questions and i will always be glad to help. Those are lovely pictures. What breeds of Goat and Sheep do you have? Certainly with my Shetlands, although some do not have horns, they are a great help when you need to catch them up!! The sheep are soay and the goats are pygmy The horns defo help when catching them up as soay are the greyhounds of the sheep world lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Ha Ha ought to get good sheep dog! I did, after i got tired of chasing them around the field! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
judge2010 196 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 how many lambs been lost to foxes and badgers so far? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldmantanner 4 Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 how many lambs been lost to foxes and badgers so far? None so far, thank god! I did a lot of shooting before we started to lamb. Including the badgers, I would much rather have safe lambs and no badgers than dead lambs and live badgers, so i shot as many as i could find Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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