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Equipment / Re: Flail mowers
« Last post by SallyintNorth on March 23, 2025, 12:18:21 pm »If you have friendly local farmers, you might well find that one will top a patch for you for a consideration.
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Sheep / Re: Itchy sheep
« Last post by shep53 on March 23, 2025, 10:48:25 am »You normally shear non breeding sheep In spring depending where in the country you are as to how early
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Sheep / Re: Itchy sheep
« Last post by SavageU on March 23, 2025, 09:42:01 am »Yeah I think I did and they are significantly less itchy.
I could try hand shear some of them but I’m not that skilled tbh and my electric shears are not upto much.
Reading online it says earliest for shearing is early spring-April time?
I could try hand shear some of them but I’m not that skilled tbh and my electric shears are not upto much.
Reading online it says earliest for shearing is early spring-April time?
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Sheep / Re: Itchy sheep
« Last post by shep53 on March 23, 2025, 09:35:43 am »In late winter if I thought heavily fleeced sheep had lice then I would put crovect on at the tick rate
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Sheep / Re: Itchy sheep
« Last post by shep53 on March 23, 2025, 09:04:02 am »You really need a vet to take skin scrapings so that you know what you are dealing with , Crovect at the lice rate is well known to be less efficient in a very full fleece . Shearing right after lambing could be very dangerous as the weather is still volatile and could cause any thing from mastitis to death . If you can shear with a cover comb or hand shear and keep them inside then that's different
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Sheep / Itchy sheep
« Last post by SavageU on March 23, 2025, 08:44:39 am »So I have Itchy sheep.
All the ewes are inside for lambing and definitely have something moving in their fleeces.
I’ve crovexted them but they really need shearing I think-after lambing before I turn them out.
Is it too early?
I don’t want to be jabbing them if I can help it. Any tips-obviously don’t want itchy lambs either!
All the ewes are inside for lambing and definitely have something moving in their fleeces.
I’ve crovexted them but they really need shearing I think-after lambing before I turn them out.
Is it too early?
I don’t want to be jabbing them if I can help it. Any tips-obviously don’t want itchy lambs either!
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Introduce yourself / Re: Hello from North Cornwall
« Last post by Rosemary on March 23, 2025, 06:51:07 am »Hello and welcome from Carnoustie 
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Introduce yourself / Re: Hello from North Cornwall
« Last post by Fleecewife on March 23, 2025, 12:16:53 am »It's never too late to learn 
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Equipment / Re: Flail mowers
« Last post by Fleecewife on March 23, 2025, 12:14:41 am »Welcome! We are in a fairly similar situation but we use the whole area. We use a topper behind a Siromer small tractor. That might seem beyond your current needs, but if you intend to make use of the rest of your land, you will find that a small tractor and implements will be very useful. (We were given a larger tractor too, which is used for larger machinery for haymaking, such as a baler.)
For the wet areas, we have found that planting willow and alder trees helps to dry the area, provides shade and firewood.
For the wet areas, we have found that planting willow and alder trees helps to dry the area, provides shade and firewood.
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Equipment / Flail mowers
« Last post by Ste78 on March 22, 2025, 10:50:50 am »Hello everyone, my first post on here!..I have an 8acre small holding in Scotland. We use about 2acre and the rest is rough grazing / previously used for horses but can get wet and includes some areas of rushes. I’m hoping to cut a path around it so I can walk my elderly dog through summer as she can’t go far anymore. Looking for ideas on what best equipment is - I guess patch would be over 500m length and about 2m wide so thinking I might by need a quad with flail but hoping others here have had similar situations…thanks in advance for any help/ideas