@baileyagco We have the same troubles here nick. Flushing lines helps but the main thing we do is run 4or 5 drums of hydrochloric acid down the lines every winter. A prick of a job but we haven't had any major issues since.
@Binnicreeklamb 69 kg average live and full ross. Weighed between 61 and 78 kg. Hopefully they'll yield 32 kilo's on the hook. I'll have them cleaned up by the Woodstock show. Gotta love chops
Another load of Hampshire lambs loaded and off to Melbourne this morning. Happy to see them going and having a bit more time to concentrate on confinement feeding ewes
@agronomybrady James, I've been thinking of doing something similar but on phalaris and fescue country.
Being on short lucerne paddocks with minimal cover id imagine, are you worried about them eating all of it in the first couple of days and getting a pain in the guts or worse?
@agronomybrady@lamb_merino@GordonRefshauge I used to work on a merino station that was sold to a company that ran some of the major merino studs in the Riverina. Before the sale we sent wethers to the PWWT, when asked if the new owners wanted to send some of their own they said that "if we enter, we cannot afford to lose"
@JakeWolki Judging by your description of your sheep getting tired when being moved and the bottle jaw it has, I'd suspect barber's pole worm is rife.
I'd be giving that sheep and the rest of the mob a drench before they start dying.
@adelesmith001@baileyagco@WheatWatcher The worrying part of this is the rebate will be available until the "funds are exhausted". I won't have to order my tags until this time next year so I'm hoping that there will still be a few bickies left in the barrel to help out with the price
Congratulations Darren Shurmann and Simon Wood who won the inaugural awards at last nights Lambpro dinner. Darren supplier of the year, and Simon and Darren jointly winning consignment of the year.