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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Pentre1230 on April 20, 2009, 07:54:28 pm

Title: All lambed out...
Post by: Pentre1230 on April 20, 2009, 07:54:28 pm

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Title: Re: All lambed out...
Post by: Rosemary on April 20, 2009, 08:56:42 pm

Well done - that's a huge number of ewes. Enjoy your holiday - I hear New Zealand is nice...

Title: Re: All lambed out...
Post by: woollyval on April 20, 2009, 08:58:24 pm

Quick get a break.....silage will be starting soon ;)

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Post by: dixie on April 21, 2009, 02:16:13 pm

1700 ewes! :o  and I heaved a sigh of relief after my 4 lambed!!

Title: Re: All lambed out...
Post by: woollyval on April 21, 2009, 09:28:58 pm

Quote from: dixie on April 21, 2009, 02:16:13 pm

1700 ewes! :o  and I heaved a sigh of relief after my 4 lambed!!

A while ago.....fair while....bout 20 years.....I worked as shepherd for lambing with a flock of 2000 kerry hills and mules.
At one point I had sooooo many spare lambs in a huge pen with an ad lib feeder that I could hardly keep up with fostering them :o...........we still ended up with about 30 odds n sods that were too small, too dim, too ill etc to be fostered..........did I sigh with relief when we got the last trailer full out to the fields so I know why Pentre needs a holiday....without the sight of a sheep ;D