[Hillview Farm]

Recently I bought myself a Ring feeder after using a hay rack due to more mouths to feed . Before I thought they were a lot of money until scats had then on offer and reduced them. I got my ewes in on Sunday due to 'the great storm of 13' As I was worried trees would bring down the fences (and they did)  and I needed them dry for Monday morning to dag and take them to the ram. I amount of hay saved from the ground was unreal!

What is your Best sheep buy? 

[Bramblecot]

Jakoti shears - but they are lethally sharp .  Be warned.

[Bionic]

Bramblecot, are they for dagging?  The ones I have, forgotten the name for the mo, are awful. I ended up dagging with a pair of scissors

[smallflockshearing]

I love those hand shears where a second's inattention causes the blades to flip across and swap sides and you are left clawing pointlessly at open fleece with blades pointing in different directions.

[twizzel]

Considering I only rear orphans, I couldn't be without my shepherdess feeder now 

[Rosemary]

Jakoti shears - but they are lethally sharp .  Be warned.

Yes they would be close to the top of my list too. Great tool.

Wheeled covered hay racks - I use them for sheep, ponies and cattle 

[Blinkers]

My best buy was Weigh Scales from someone on Ebay.  Brilliant for not just the lambs, but the porkers too 

[Foobar]

Hmm, hard to choose.  it's usually the thing I bought most recently 


But on the list would be:  weight crate, iae wheeled hay racks, phillips repeat injector, and phillips dosing gun, or and the B&B supersharp foot shears.  None of those were that cheap but they are worth every penny.  I think the top one would have to be the hay rack as that prevents so much wastage.

[ZaktheLad]

Mine has to be sheep hurdles - couldn't manage without them at all!

[lachlanandmarcus]

Mines my ancient 6 wheeled quad (hex? ) which is slow as anything (diesel) but invaluable for getting water and hay out to the sheep in our deep snow! best thing we ever bought.

[Tim W]

Working dog-----what he does in 5 minutes would take everybody on this forum all day to achieve

[SteveHants]

Working dog-----what he does in 5 minutes would take everybody on this forum all day to achieve

As someone who has only had a working dog for few months, I agree wholeheartedly. I'm not sure how I managed without one...........

[Padge]

Working dog-----what he does in 5 minutes would take everybody on this forum all day to achieve

That's as maybe but the majority of those on here only keep a few as a hobby and not the full blown enterprise you operate

[Pasture Farm]

Dog first...Cradle feeder four foot bales even less waste than ring feeder because with a ring feeder the lambs get in Poo and Pee on the hay then Sheep wont eat it. And now with my left arm permanently damaged after an accident its my turnover crate. 

[devonlad]

Easy. Same as you zak. Hurdles had by far the biggest impact on our sheep handling
 Getting more for Christmas as we got more sheep