[craig]

Has anyone got any drawings diagrams or links to sites of handling system layouts???  Shedding race, working race,holding pens,forcing pens etc etc. 

                                                                                Cheers. Craig.

[supplies for smallholders]

Hi,

Have a look at : http://www.coxagri.com/alligator/1/priorityascending/catalogue.html

We are Cox agents so if you need any of it pricing up give us a try.

Thanks

[VSS]

This might be of some use



As seen in "The Sheep Book for Smallholders".

[waterhouse]

"You can never have enough hurdles" was said to me by a smallholder before we got the sheep.  So I bought 20 and then used most of them as treeguards, so I bought 20 more.  Then I found them around the beehives so I need some more.  They beat pallets...

[Rosemary]

Tim's book's really good, by the way. I bought one (a signed copy, no less) for a chum of mine and she's gone off on holiday for three weeks. Hope she's read it by the ime she gets back, so I can borrow it.

[Rosemary]

A friend of mine has a Modulamb system that seems very good. In particular, she has a crate for holding individual sheep for, well, almost anything - and it's raised to save the old back!

[humphreymctush]

To save money I invented a forcing gate that hinges in the middle made out of 2 small hurdles. The point of this is that you dont need expensive curved hurdles for the gate to follow and you dont need the sliding reversable type of forcing gate becauce you can fold the gate back on itself to collect the next batch. I hope the photos are clear enough, as you can see orkney's a bit foggy this evening.

[humphreymctush]

here's another

[humphreymctush]

and another

[humphreymctush]

and a bigger one

[craig]

Thanks for the info guys, how many sheep do you farm Humphrey???

[andywalt]

great set up

[humphreymctush]

38 breeding females I think

[humphreymctush]

here are some lambs squashed up in the forcing pen

[humphreymctush]

They go into the race of their own free will