The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Womble on January 26, 2016, 10:37:44 pm
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Our usual method for fluke dosing, worming etc is to get all the ewes in a wee pen, then after I've dosed each one, Mrs Womble gives it a wee bindi spot on the forehead with a temporary marker crayon:
(http://www.raidex.de/typo3temp/pics/6e649b9e86.png)
However, I had to do it on my own the other day, and found I didn't have enough hands to hold everything at once. I solved this problem by drilling a small hole through the knob at the bottom of the crayon, and attaching it to one of these "zingers" (also known as ski pass holders, and available on Ebay for a couple of quid):
(http://www.my-advantage.co.uk/images/52ff7d99538d7/400x400.jpg)
It has to be quite a strong spring to take the weight of the crayon, but the one I had did the trick. So all I do now is attach the zinger to the chest pocket of my overalls, and I'm good to go! :thumbsup:
OK, I know it's not going to win me the Nobel Prize for invention, but you never know, it might be useful to somebody :wave:
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worth patenting .... can see someone manufacturing and selling with crayons ..... brill idea.
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Good idea, I had a similar idea, but mine was more of a zip wire for the side of the race with a caribiner on it to attach vit drench or the likes. But I've taken to wearing everything on my back in a rucksack x hey I would affix your idea to the rucksack, all I ll need then is the knee cymbals and a mouth organ and I ll be good to go hahahah x
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Ingenious! Well done!
I work on my own all the time (jimmy no mates) so have to constantly dream up ways of doing two-person jobs single handed. The most useful piece of kit for me is a workman's tool belt. With loads of pockets and pouches, I use every time I need to do something to my sheep.
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I put everything I'm likely to need in one of those hookover horse feed buckets and put it on the side of the race or hurdle next to where I'm working.
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I use one of these on my belt: http://www.sheep-holsters.com/page8.html (http://www.sheep-holsters.com/page8.html) (see bottom of the page)
Can't recommend these belts/holsters enough. Simon is very helpful and the profits go to FCN.
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I do like the holder but then I would put it down again on a rail and forget about it then I ll have to climb back up race growling to myself lol, retractable sounds perfect solution for me. Now how to attach a zinger to a spray, not seen dinkier sprays, perhaps We d go back to crayon. I was given an old rucksack as up to now I've butchered a Charles owen hat bag and tied the strings round my waist, simple but effective, my new version will be awesome for us to use . they re so expensive to buy if you look at proper back packs....
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I had a similar idea, but mine was more of a zip wire for the side of the race with a caribiner on it to attach vit drench or the likes.
We do this.
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Oow!
I like it womble. I will show it to OH as I think he will certainly want to adopt it. :excited:
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We went into a car accessories shop in Ross on Wye back in the summer to buy some glue for a car seat repair. For some reason the shop keeper asked if we needed it to stick labels on sheep (despite being on a posh weekend away I must have smelt like one I guess). Quick as a flash I replied 'no we already know ours are sheep'
:sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
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I had a similar idea, but mine was more of a zip wire for the side of the race with a caribiner on it to attach vit drench or the likes.
We do this.
Same here double working race with a zip wire between above head height . Seem to remember that you could at one time buy a drenching gun with holder for a crayon so you dosed then marked with the gun
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Tape the marker to the dosing gun at the bottom
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Could use a small cylinder shape draw string bag, tie it tight at the neck of can and hook on carabiner on other end ? :thinking:
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Quite an ingenious idea womble you could have been a professional inventor, like professor pat pending out of the wacky races ;D I myself use spray marker for the sheep. Is the crayon better to use though, does it wear off more easily than the spray or does it stay put?
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It's been great reading all your comments and different ways of doing things - that's what this forum is all about IMO :thumbsup:.
Unless you use a lot of it, the crayon is nowhere near as durable as a spray. However, when dosing sheep I only need the mark to stay on for ten minutes, so the crayon is perfect. Also I haven't yet sprayed my face blue with a crayon :innocent: