Sheep Work

Between doing R&M work around the section and other farm work, there has been a reasonable amount of sheep work still to be done. 

Ewes:
As part of that is the regular shifting of the 3 ewe mobs around their rotation.  The rams were taken out of the ewe mobs in mid-April.  Everything appears to be in good condition.  There is a small re-investation of fly occuring and these were treated on a case-by-case basis.

Terminal Ewes (B Flock) after tupping (14/04/12)

2 of the Suffolk Rams taken out after tupping (14/04/12)

2-tooth ewes following tupping (15/04/12)

Our head shepherd moving the 2-tooths back to paddock (15/04/12)

Terminal Rams

Lambs:
The last of the lambs have finally gone, with our target of all season lambs gone by end of April.  Next year we will endeavour to bring that forward a month.

• 27th March - 176 works lambs to Te Kuiti Meats @ 16.1 kg CW
• 17th April - 68 store lambs to Frankton sale. These were our tailenders and averaged $77/head
• 25th April - 66 works lambs to SFF @ 16.3 kg CW

Last 66 lambs left on 25th April

Hoggets:
In March we picked up EID tags to put into our hoggets and 7 lease rams to go to our hoggets.  On 1st April the ewe hoggets got tagged, drenched, second dose of Campy and put the rams out.  A sample of hoggets were weighed, with all visually smalls drafted off.  In the end 477 hoggets went to the ram, minimum weight 35 kg, with average approximately 40 kg, 42 ewe hoggets bought home to be sold.  We were pleased with the condition and size of hoggets.  The ram is due to be removed 4th May.

Alice helping dad by putting the tags in the tagger

Tagging the hoggets with EID tags

The rams for the hoggets will come out end of next week. 

With only breeding sheep left on the property, they will all be on their winter rotations.