It's the most wonderful time of the year!! 🐑🐏

[BenBhoy]

No Heptavac P?

Struggling to get any mate!! Certainly not enough.

 

[WH308]

Anyone thinking of vaccinating for bluetongue?

 

[BenBhoy]

Anyone thinking of vaccinating for bluetongue?

We're not. But I know good plenty of people who have. One guy I talk to has spent 11 grand to do all of his.

 

[Buchan]

Struggling to get any mate!! Certainly not enough.

Sensible to recreate it though

 

[BenBhoy]

Sensible to recreate it though

That's what I was trying to mate yeah

 

[Rasputin]

Saw my first lambs in the fields by the house yesterday. Brilliant white and looking bloody cute in the sunshine.

 

[BenBhoy]

2025 started on Thursday, few days early. See you on the other side!!!

 

[WH308]

We have finished lambing our few. 200% average. So pleased.

 

[Jodie5864]

Foxes is an issue with us on ewes with twins outside. Our hill cheviots are good at boxing them away.

 

[WH308]

Foxes is an issue with us on ewes with twins outside. Our hill cheviots are good at boxing them away.

We lamb indoors, having seen the losses the weather inflicted on outdoor lambing flocks last year, I don’t think I could stand the heartache of going about bagging up dead lambs. I hope they all have a better season this year, for theirs and the lambs sake.

 

[TringSaint]

Anyone thinking of vaccinating for bluetongue?

We thought about it but the vaccine is about £10 a head and isn’t very effective, only lowering the severity of the symptoms. As it’s a notifiable disease even if the animals are vaccinated then they still have to be euthanised

 

[TringSaint]

Struggling to get any mate!! Certainly not enough.

I got a 100ml bottle from Mole Valley in Buckingham on Saturday, so it is available but it’s hard to get.

 

[BenBhoy]

Busy busy midwife!!

 

[old keeper]

Most of the local farmers have finished lambing, just the usual odd ones left.

Foxes have been a major problem this year; several have been caught in the act of killing newborn lambs. I've had almost 30 in the first two months of the year, thats more than usual.

 

[BenBhoy]

just the usual odd ones left.

Yeah that's me alright!

I used to lamb in January. This is 3rd year lambing in march/April & much prefer it all round.

 

[VSS]

 

[BenBhoy]

Hands off as much as possible. I once read a saying by wise man that's stuck with me "maximum observation; minimum interference" and I've used throughout my lambing years.

 

[VSS]

Hands off as much as possible. I once read a saying by wise man that's stuck with me "maximum observation; minimum interference" and I've used throughout my lambing years.

A very wise man indeed

 

[BenBhoy]

Proper lambing essentials