Margali's Griffin Wood Ranch

[Baymule]

I scrapie tag at a couple of days old. Then I know who is who. If they go to auction, that’s all they need. If keepers, they get a ID tag. It saves trying to figure what lamb goes to what ewe.

 

[Mini Horses]

At my local auction, if no scrapie tag, they apply it for $1 fee.

 

[farmerjan]

Same with the dairy id requirements... will apply for a fee at the stockyard...

 

[Margali]

Going forward, I will tag everyone at birth. The commercial lambs get the free white tags. For registered, they get the fancy tags. This time I had issue with the too big tags ripping out of ears. Then I frankly forgot until lambs started arriving. The nice Q1.5 tags are $0.65 each. I still would have rodeo for CDT shots. But hubby got his cheap welder working this weekend so I will have better gates next time.

 

[Margali]

Just confirmed everyone's ear tags. I didn't do as bad as I thought. I got Shy Lady's Blue Butt and Mocha's Blue Tail reversed when putting in tags. Anyway, I know who is who for registration. Their ID tags don't match birth order anymore *OCD eye twitch*.

 

[Ridgetop]

We tag when the lambs come out of the jugs to go into the creep pen. Everybody gets a scrapie tag, only ewes get a flock tag. I write down the scrapie # and the flock # in my book. Have had sheep lose a tag and had to verify who it was by scrapie tag and vice versa.

 

[Margali]

It never ends. Hattie LPH16 is scouring so I will pickup meds that @Baymule recommended tomorrow and keep her in on hay.

Sunday I put Aria and Dottie in with Snickers for about 2 months. Aria weaned her lamb 1-14-24 and seems in decent condition. Dottie is still on fat side after loosing her lamb on 2-4-24. If they take they will lamb in July. I need to figure out lambing plan especially since the crayons are not showing up on the sheep.

 

[Ridgetop]

Are you using the cold weather crayons? If they don't work, get some of the color powder and mix it with grease, Crisco type stuff, and smear it on the ram's brisket. Only problem with that type of marking is that you have to reapply it just about every day.

 

[Margali]

I think I'm going to aim for the 3 lambs per 2 years cycle. It seems to be what Aria does already. July and August are hottest months. Late February is a crap shoot for rain vs ice.

Expose To Ram	Dec - Feb	May - June	Sept - Nov
Lambs Due	May - June	October - November	Feb - March

 

[Margali]

@Ridgetop I have cold, warm, and hot crayons that I tried last year. None of the colors seemed to show up well on buff tan coats. Snickers also did not like me messing with the harness. So I'm not going to rely on harness. The 2-3 months in at time and pregnancy checking seems to work okay.