Indoor Lambing - Solving Problems.
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2024
- Welcome to Sheep School where everyday with sheep is a school day! Today, we're diving deep into the challenges and solutions of indoor lambing. Whether you're a seasoned farmer or a curious viewer, this video offers a comprehensive look at the real-life issues and triumphs of lambing season on a working farm.
What's Inside:
Pet Lamb Troubles: Discover how we manage pet lambs that suckle from the wrong ewes and the techniques we use to correct this behavior.
Labour & Birth: Witness the drama as three sheep simultaneously claim one newborn lamb, and learn how we handle these situations to ensure the safety and health of the lambs and mothers.
Feeding & Growth: Understand the importance of feeding singles extra concentrates and the complications that arise from lambs growing too big, leading to difficult births.
Genetic Implications: We discuss the heartbreaking moment of dealing with a lamb born dead and explore how the genetics of breeding rams play a crucial role.
Tagging & Health: See how we tag newborn lambs for performance recording and address the outbreak of joint ill with practical, effective solutions.
Turning Out to Pasture: Experience the challenges of turning out day-old lambs and their mothers to pasture in cold, wet weather, and how we ensure their survival and well-being.
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We use thickish rubbing alcohol hand sanitizer on the tags. Just spray the tag down in the tagger and then put on the lamb. We haven't had any infections with ear tags since.
Hi David. Great video as always. I leave the triplet lambs on the ewes, feed half kg of nuts to the ewes for 6 weeks after lambing so she milks well and creep feed the lambs from 2 weeks old up till weaning. The lambs wean at the same weights as twin lambs then. No more pet lambs mixing milk replacer and far less work. Run the triplet batch of ewes & lambs as a separate flock. Works 100% for me for years. Best of luck.
Vetericyn is another product you can use as an antiseptic when tagging. Also great for wounds and eye infections; safe to use on people as well, if you get a wound.. Plus, no staining.
Thankyou for the video .
It's been a ruff season for a lot .
The weather has not helped .
Glad your holding up .
Thankyou for showing the realities and talking it through for some of us viewers .
Great catch up - keep them coming!
Cracking video. Keep up the good work. Lambing is not easy that’s where good help comes in handy
David, iodine is great for the ears. What i do is dip tag & taggers all into the iodine.
Works the finest. Keep up the good work
Dethol is a great job as well. Less messs with the iodine. We do the same as yourself, dip the taggers into the dethol and job done.
God bless your gran for hording so to speak because as a gran I do the same with plastic bottles to tin coffee containers they will always come in handy for something. I do think it's a good idea to spray the lambs ears before tagging every little bit helps. What a cute moment with your little daughter with the little lamb. So glad you do have extra hands on from the students. The learning curve is always a help for them. God bless you all.🙂
Lots of lovely lambs. ❤
Your wee girl is so sweet.
Hope the weather is not a problem. 👍👍😊
Absolutely impressed by your preference for iodine over blue spray. I'm the exact same. I hate routine use of antibiotics on account of resistance. Well done. I'm very impressed!
Very much appreciated your videos this year. Really helped with suggesting new ways to deal with our small flock.
Thank you 👌
Good luck with lambing..
Great video David as always your getting great lambs too 👌
That's great work with your sheep David and your working hard with your sheep keep up the good work with them 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 👌
A fine operation run very smooth.good better best,never let it rest ,until the good get better and the better best.
We tend to soak the tags in surgical spirit before putting in the tagging pliers. Seems to work ok.
I tag and record all lambs at birth, I keep the tags and taggers in a bucket of warm water and detol.
Your joint I’ll is potentially coming from lambing pens, try cleaning out and bedding lime between ewes.
Hi we dip the tag in detal solution when on the tagger . Plus iodine
Using hibiscrub here, leaves a residual that seems to help. Bring around a jam jar and dip each side of the tags in. Quick and effective.
Thank you for the tip 👌
What type of tag reader do you use and what price dose it run any software etc totally agree early tagging for good record keeping only way to get the best genetics picked threw
I tag at birth and ring the tails. I have a container of dettol and dip the tagger with the tags on it into the container and do the same with the rings. Seens to work for me and don't have problems anymore. Make sure not to do it to tissue sample tags.
Always put iodine when i tag but after the tag is put in and lidocaine rings for castration
Funny Dave just started tagging ewe lams and have joined ill.never tagged lambs before and haven't had joined ill for 12 years so I say ur on the button we earis.
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Hi David love uour videos so much. Question for you, do you alway take the 3rd lamb? Would she not be able to feed three?
Thank you so much 😀
I have tried 3 lambs on before and the ewes will rear them but very hard on them in my overstocked grass system. They need plenty of feeding and lambs need creep feeding also. All the pet lambs here might convince me to try it again next year!
I always found dipping the naval in iodine solution for a few seconds was far better than spraying navel in combating infections, spraying just not as effective imho
Busy busy busy!
David , pet lamb 24 is over on its hoof , short tendon is the issue , take some pipe insulation lagging and slide it over the foot covering from hoof to above knee , put a few runs of electrical tape around to secure and keep on for 10 days and it will put it right .this has worked on this farm for 25 years .Hi we all have issues ,problems and set backs, but reaasured if you were easy care / no care lambing outside it would be a total dead loss as well as a welfare /neglect issue.good luck
Agreed. There is no perfect system. Housing has some issues but facing the diabolical weather we are getting is devastating for the newborns.
Thanks for the tip Emmett..👌
It's tough going for the outdoor lambers.. Mother nature is the boss!
I had the same thing too left a ewe to lamb second one and bag over head. It’s devastating
Ewes poaching lambs could be reduced by les sheep in the pens surely? Same for overstocking in fields
I always pulled off the weakest lamb. Logically it will survive better with shelter. Enya, such a pretty shy little girl.Just a thought, I used to disinfect the tags before piercing the ear.
do you fed cold or warm milk
The milk is warmed as it is passed through the feeder when the lambs suck. I moved them onto cold milk adlib milk at around 2-3weeks old.
What breed are the sheep please?
All purebred Lleyn Sheep. Have tried using a Texel ram this year as an experiment.
Some lamb in the next video 👌
Would you not adopt a pet lamb onto a ewe with a single
Absolutely. At every opportunity but correct timing is crucial and it doesn't always work even with correct timing.
Do you think some of the problems come from the ewes being in a completely unnatural environment to give birth?
Absolutely but outdoor lambing has its own difficulties especially in the tough weather we've all had!
Tips: take the Lamb that are eating best/most from the tripples.
Thank you for the tip 👌
9:32 Is Triplet Lambs, a boy or girl⁉️
23:27 Is Triplet Lambs, a boy or girl⁉️
6:55 - 7:10 Is Twin Lambs, a boy or girl⁉️
Sell or give away the orphan lambs.... Or use a bit of wood to stop them reaching for the ewes... Not good for anyone that set up....
Never tag lambs till you sell them
I don't like tagging young lambs but impossible to keep track of ancestry without it!
Not sure about Ireland but in Scotland we have to tag our sheep within 6 months of being born, but after 2 or 3 months old it just becomes a hassle, best getting it done asap
I believe it's before 9 months old in Ireland. The vast majority of lambs would be tagged before leaving for market or the factory.
1:53 Is Lamb, a boy or girl⁉️
Don't b going for a pee in the middle of tagging
ADOPT ONE OF THOSES PET LAMBS ONTO HER THAT WAY SHE WONT GO TO WASTE WITH RAISING A SINGLE LAMB
Great idea. Can be tricky to fool a sheep into taking a second lamb. The timing is everything...
Very good vid and some monster lambs congrats btw are you a full time farmer and having you been farming long as I've seen in your description that you say your relatively a new sheep farmer?
Thank you 👌
Full time farmer for lambing time only.. started farming 10 years ago, this is my 9th year lambing, relatively new to the job