Author Topic: Yellow paste works - Sometimes!!!  (Read 2652 times)

Brucklay

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Yellow paste works - Sometimes!!!
« on: November 04, 2012, 07:43:18 pm »
Well having posted last week at the yellow paste working for my Castlemilk ram with his girls I thought the shetland ram could be a dud as they went in at the same time and virtually no yellow signs.


I used the same paste on both rams but am wondering if the shetlands denser fleece "sucked up" gunk as today walking up the road - there he was, bold as brass doing his duty and not a hint of yellow on the ewe.


I guess maybe I didn't put enough on or it's dried out but there is a 100% difference - without being rude do different breeds have differnet techniques ie should I have pasted lower for the shetland - at the end of the I'm please he's doing it  :thumbsup:
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jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: Yellow paste works - Sometimes!!!
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 08:09:55 pm »
I add raddle every couple of days on my Shetland tups.

Put the tup lamb in today, turned round to see a ewe with yellow on her shoulder and side. Watched tup lamb jump on her from the side and try very hard to do his bit. Sigh. Anyway, when I went to feed them, he seemed to have sorted out which end he was supposed to approach from  :D

Brucklay

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Re: Yellow paste works - Sometimes!!!
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 08:20:13 pm »
Jaykay - your right I guess mine has dried up - maybe the castlemilk is a bit 'rough' - glad your tup lamb has worked out where to put his bit!!
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

 

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