Hello all! Just thought I'd introduce myself...
I recently inherited my Dad's Poll Dorset flock, he very sadly lost his fight with cancer in June. I was brought up with them around but never really got my hands mucky until it came to our local agricultural shows where I'd happily making them look the part and show them. Anyway, I LOVE it!
So far we have managed the following: shearing, worming, dagging out, feet clipped, worming again, lambs clicked, moved them around my Dad's numerous fields to suit our needs and theirs, booked in for our first show without Dad, fly strike on one tup, had a very old boy put down, another good decent tup sold, one ewe give pen and strep for five days (amazing considering I hate needles!) and some other ewes and lambs on the market. I am quite impressed so far by how much I must have known. But I'll have hundreds and hundreds of questions going forward I'm sure.
We have 6 of his ewes due to lamb in September, and this has got me thinking about record keeping and some sort of annual pattern as to when we lamb, when we need to worm, when we need to do heptavac, mineral drench etc. I am a stay at home mum, but before this I was an Operations and Projects Manager, I would like something easily managable functional, can anyone recommend the systems they use? I have an excel spreadsheet but I can see this getting pretty huge!