[SteveHants]

If I caked mine, I'd get a load of fatties - its partly cos I'm breeding for fitness off grass and partly cos you have harder ground.


I do know I took a load of lleyns of some stemmy, awful pasture that was supposed to be hay but had never got cut and was a free grazing 'tidy up' job last week and put them on some decent stuff and now they are looking almost too fat.


Generous for me is a beetlic. I do occasionally bucket a ram so I can get them to come close if I'm worried, but aside from that its bins.

[shep53]

Once per day 3miles wide 6 miles long do 7,ooo miles a year on the quad .  On the hill finding sick or dead is a matter of chance .

[bigchicken]

I see my shetlands twice a day every day of the year or some one does it on my behalf holidays etc I have to open up and shut away my Wyandotte bantams, only have 20 breeding ewes so can be done quite quickly

[earlybird]

oh is obsessed morning, dinner, tea and lock up time same with the  5 goats and 11pigs only got 4 sheep, live on an isolated road,  other night car came down 2 in the morning, next thing hubby and son going round with torches doing a head count, 

[plumseverywhere]

Luckily for us, our sheep are on land next to our house. I stick 2 fingers in my mouth, whistle loud and all 5 run to me (I do it the lazy way!)  Then at afternoon milking time, they are all stood by the gate waiting for a handful of  food.
just prior to shearing I was out there several times a day studying bums and tums and panicking everytime I saw a fly!

[Anke]

Once a day normally, at the moment they get fed a bit, so head (or more accurately bum) counts while at the trough. When with young lambs at least twice a day, but they are next to our house/drive, so it is just a case of popping out and slowly wandering round the fields. In the early summer evenins I actally love to stand in the field, leaning on my stick (and pretend to be a proper shepherd ) for a good few minutes.... until the midges have had their fill, but I do enjoy watching them with the lambs.
When lambing I just live in the field (and the shed).

[Brucklay]

2 x daily here too - but combined with dog walk and generally to get me out and about too - mostly it's enjoyable but not sometimes with our Aberdeenshire weather.


Come lambing I get a bit "Colliewoman" and am out more than in - determined not to miss anything!!

[feldar]

Once a day generally cause we both work, but twice if flies been bad, tend to walk the dogs round in summer and we practically live in the field during lambing season
We have rented ground too so hubby goes one way and me the other to get them all checked.

[wellies]

we check twice a day but our guys are with the horses so I would always check them at least twice a day anyway

[Blackbird]

Twice a day for my tiny flock of 5 - I also like sheepy cuddles Pedwardine! 

[CaroleBulmer]

 :wave:twice a day for ones that are with the chickens - but the ones out in the village once a day - but they do have good neighbours who can spot a sheep with a limp 300 yds away 

[Canadian Sheepfarmer]

I get my entire flock in every night to protect them from coyotes. They come into a big yard with a loose housing shed on offer. This is a big chore as it curtails our social life, but it has many advantages. Actually, like most farm animals, the flock likes the routine of it, and comes in very willingly as the sun goes down.
I let them out at about 7am in the morning, any earlier and the predators are still out there predating!
I have LGDs and a llama, they like it too, it makes the sheep easier to protect.
 
Also, this means that we see every sheep and lamb twice a day walking around. This makes problems far easier to spot. If we need to get anyone out for treatment it easy to divert them into the handling area. If it is a sort day, or shearing, or dosing, the sheep are right there in the yard ready to go each morning.

[sokel]

Luckily for us, our sheep are on land next to our house. I stick 2 fingers in my mouth, whistle loud and all 5 run to me (I do it the lazy way!)  Then at afternoon milking time, they are all stood by the gate waiting for a handful of  food.
just prior to shearing I was out there several times a day studying bums and tums and panicking everytime I saw a fly!

Same here we only have 5 and the second I let the wolfie pup through the gate they come running to see her.
She is going to miss them when they go as they have been a big part of her life since the day we got her

[ScotsGirl]

I'm afraid I suffer with OCD also!  Tend to check once a day at least while walking dogs, feeding pigs, checking ponies and at least twice during fly season.  Lambing I can be out every half hour!  OH started to rig up CCTV to stop my going but never got the camera up.  Might get there in time for next spring.

[Kitchen Cottage]

I am spoilt, mine are in a paddock at the front of my house... and are handreared so very tame.  I feed and check before I go to work and at night.  I do feet etc once  a week.  In hot weather I am literally out there every few hours if I'm at home to avoid flystrike or dehydration..... OCD alert!