SheepChaser
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Me to! Never had one up till now. The litter was half black and half fawn with the mask.
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It’s that junk yard cur look bro
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More a rhombus mate.
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Thems the breaks matey, thems the breaks.
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Answers first.
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Read the comment I replied to ..... you’ll figure it out
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Why become a massive egotistical W*nker like everyone else ? world would be a better place if we drowned all of the brand ambassadors and ‘influencers’ ?
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Deer deer and more deer
SheepChaser replied to Runningdogscotland's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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So...... just to reply to some of your points, and please dont think i take it as a dig, but someones as to offer the other side. First - I totally agree to your sentiments with regard to small scale self sufficiency and sympathetic food production for yourself / community around you. However, there are a lot of folk, and most can't or wont do that. Someone has to feed them. This food either gets imported or gets grown here, if its going to be grown here, it needs to be done os efficiently and profitably for those doing so. And preferably those producers not be seen as evil lol. You
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There is a system from oz called ‘numb nuts’ which is currently being trialled in the uk. Local anaesthetic at a fractional cost which would allow for late ringing of balls and chopping tails. Bit of a game changer really. Where are you in the uk? I’d think a lot of April / may outdoor lambing flocks in the south would be facing blow fly issues and nemotadaris hatch by the time the lambs hit 4 weeks ? 100% agree on ringing at early stage with indoor stuff, but indoor lambing just doesn’t stack up for us in any way shape or form. And like I said that stud flock (the performa
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The old girls will be glad of the help ?
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Genuine question but have you ever used a gas iron ? rubber ring - end of the tail slowly dies, discomfort last for a while with the ring on, and they run about for a bit with a rotting dead bit of flesh hanging off them. Also leaves rings all over. gas iron - about one second of pain, tail is removed, wound is cauterised, job done. Lambs straight on their feet and run off to eat. Also practically speaking - running mobs of 250-400 twins and 300-1000 singles, catching them up and ringing as you go is nigh on impossible, due to lambing rate, plus causes a lot of miss mother
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Dogs also get a free dinner this way ?
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Rings are pretty cruel in my opinion mate, and hugely impractical for any outdoor system of scale .
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I know Tim very well, we are an exlana multiplier flock so produce ewe lambs for those guys. Everything pretty much goes on the hook mate. And no mate rings and a gas iron.
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Velcro gloves are a game changer bro
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I farm a couple thousand exlana mate. But contract tailing these guys. Well, tail, ball, tag, vac and fly treatment. Not a massive fan of Romney’s myself, but the main stud flock here has only lost 7.5 % from scanning to now, once a day checks at lambing. So can’t really knock them.
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What’s not to like about sheep ?
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So the grass has been eaten ? But you need a sheep ? Just get someone to give you a couple of cull ewes or something, or couple pet lambs etc. They eat grass and you eat them.
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You could keep a sheep in a shed over winter as long as it had feed, water and space. Chances are it will wander unless kept in by electric or stock fence when it decides it wants some better grass / to shelter under a tree / to find a mate / because it’s a fecking sheep. Sorry I struggle to understand your general rambling. What do you actually want to achieve ?
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Inbox could be full. I’ll delete some messages.
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South Wales mate
