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4 months

Silage 2024 it started 2 months later than normal it’s been some year!!

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9 months

Making life simpler with the duopower #vdw

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2 years

Scanning done for this year, lambing end of March 🤞

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9 months

Ewes in for a few weeks too hard manage them outside with land been wet #newzealandromneys @LocksFarm @SheepIreland

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2 months

Taking home the ewes for shearing at the end of the week

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8 months

Start of slurry today over a month later than normal and the ground is just ok in the last few days

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3 months

Last of the first cut mowed today

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3 months

Last of the weaning for 2024 just over half an hour to draw off 470 lambs👌

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2 months

Second cut silage done for the year nearly 8 weeks later than it should, it’s been some year

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3 months

Singe ewes weaned today will do the twins next week

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10 months

Ewe scanning done for 2024, roll on lambing on the 20th of march

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7 months

A big thanks to the Tuam Herald for the article they had in todays paper about out journey with the Romney sheep in the last 2 years.

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1 year

On the move lambs clicked and cobalt dose

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10 months

Putting out beet to the ewes before scanning next week

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8 months

Crutched the ewes and all ready for lambing, cleaned out the passage feed and bedded all, ewes due on the 20th going out to grass for lambing early next week

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2 years

Hoggets going into the shed for a few weeks before lambing

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7 months

Ewes busy lambing a nice change in the weather from a week ago

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9 months

Getting another load of beet out for the ewes while the ground is good and dry before the rain tonight ## #Romney #sheep

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2 months

Shearing 2024 completed, done the last of the lambs today

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1 year

Ewes and ewe lambs shorn, wool looks small in the pressed packs

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9 months

Ewes done for fluke and bolused @Zoetis_Ireland @BimedaUK @LocksFarm @SheepIreland #newzealandromneys

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5 months

Moving ewes and twin lambs to fresh grass

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1 year

Taking home the ewes and ewe lambs for shearing, got them home and in the shed dry all ready for the morning 👌

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2 months

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9 months

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2 years

All action getting ready to sow kale for sheep this winter

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7 months

Going well had 2 hard days last week with heavy rain but all settled up well now, over 400 lambed in the last 11 days with only 2 needing help

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4 months

2 fields very light 5 bales an acre and the other 2 were 10 bales looks short but there was some butt to it Cormac, 30 acres yielded 252 bales I have another 20 acres to cut next week

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1 year

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3 years

Getting ready for grass after kale soil in serious shape

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9 months

I spent 2 hours putting out six 8 by 4 by 3 bales of barley straw I put in 3 today in 20 minutes and am not used to it yet it’s some job leaves the straw around 6” in length

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2 months

All the ewes and some of the ewe lambs shorn during the week, lucky enough to get them into the shed dry between the showers

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6 months

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3 months

@KevHog88_22 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc @TeagascOrganics I lamb the last few days of March outside so it’s easy shear them after weaning, I cliked all in the start of May

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5 months

A great day with lots learned

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3 months

All wrapped up

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8 months

@Fergenetics @neXtgenAgri One barrel per ram👌

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 Ewes looking well Patrick

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 I worked it out last night with the scan rate and the current cost of meal that I am saving over €40k by not having to feed meal to anything, I just have to improve my grassland management to maximise the use of the fresh grass with rotational grazing (hopefully 🤞)

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11 months

@jeomaher Looks great gear joe

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2 years

Thanks Patrick hopefully the weather will be good 🤞

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5 months

@patrickkehoe700 @Goldcrop @John_Dunne_ When will that be ready for harvest Patrick

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 Just over 700 Patrick

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3 months

@KevHog88_22 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc @TeagascOrganics I started shearing them the end of august 3 years ago and it’s working well for me as they will be on kale for the winter Kevin

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 Great soil Patrick easy work with it, do you know what stones are 🤣

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1 year

3 lads from Mayo, Wexford and Kerry hardy boys joe 6.5 hours shearing for 800 sheep 😓

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2 years

All the kale gone joe and I want to finish the pit so they will be at my hand until paddy’s day and out again for lambing

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3 months

@Ruck10101982 Were they meal feed or off grass? Great kill out

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2 years

@JoshPenllyn Scanned 1.33 and there were mostly hoggets with 75 ewe lambs in it as well, they are pure NZ Romney’s

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3 months

@Jameswi98250970 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc @TeagascOrganics They are very easily to flesh, I caste-rated all the males this year, the ram lambs are very active

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2 months

@Ruck10101982 I wean them at 70 days to give the hoggets time to recover and when we shore them last week there was no difference in them and the dry ones

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9 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland They are not in that good of a order Patrick between the weather and not having any kale this year has had it toll on them, but they have 2 mts to pick up 🤞

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8 months

@buzz_farmer There is a water course in the field on the top of the picture and we have to stay 12 meters away from it with regulations even though it is dry

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9 months

@OuttheGapPodca1 @Ruck10101982 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland I put the straw on thick, done in last year for the first time and it worked out well there was 6 to 7 inches of bedding in it when I let the sheep out, I put cattle in on top of it this winter and they walked it in over the first week I had 2’ of water in the tank before that to

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2 months

@mark30887364 The baler has a scales and said they were around a ton each, I will know when I put them in the feeder I’m a few months

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3 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc @TeagascOrganics That’s only a third of them Patrick I will do the twins at the end of the week when they have the paddock ate

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1 year

@KevHog88_22 I would say around 4kgs I will know next week when weighed, there is also 2 bags of belly wool as well so will have to weigh all to know the correct figure the ewes are all 2 year olds and crutched the end of may too when I put click on them Kevin

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 @IFJ_picturedesk When are your lambing Patrick

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2 months

@Ruck10101982 Plenty of size in them Cormac, what weight are they? I run the teasers with mine for a month before and the rams in for 3 weeks after that

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10 months

@OuttheGapPodca1 I love them such friendly dogs and so willing to work

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9 months

@Ruck10101982 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland Yes Cormac they are, just the first 2 pens is all that is slats

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2 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland @natsheep @TeagascSheep Don’t worry Patrick I would only be sending down ewes, I like to keep the lambs on grass to try and get as many in lamb as possible

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9 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland I will give them as much as they can eat until they go to grass pre lambing

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1 year

370 2 year old ewes and single lambs I will be doing the twins tomorrow

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1 year

Weaning 2023 underway first batch of hoggets and single lambs, lambs are 12 week’s average @WairereUk

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2 months

@KevHog88_22 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc Ya Kevin he has been shearing for me the last 3 years

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3 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @natsheep @SheepIreland @teagasc @TeagascOrganics I will be keeping most of them and will kill the few light ones next spring Patrick

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8 months

@BartonLiam96 2500 gls of watery slurry a acre, this land didn’t get any slurry before and was reseeded 2 years ago Liam

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3 years

A grand soft morning

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2 months

@Ruck10101982 I put them on kale one winter and wouldn’t do it again they didn’t thrive as good as on grass

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 @IFJ_picturedesk Looks like you need a few more there Patrick, will I send a few down 👌

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8 months

@Fergenetics @neXtgenAgri Any chance you would deliver a few to Ireland mark??

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2 years

@JoeCarty5 That’s the field this morning Joe there was 23 acres with kale and 4 acres of a layback

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3 months

@Ruck10101982 Nice clean bunch of lambs, how did they kill out Cormac ?

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10 months

@tristiandavie I honestly don’t know Tristian it’s my first time doing this, I usually have kale in but the weather was so wet last year I didn’t get it in. I put out 6 ton Wednesday morning and it’s nearly half gone now and there is 600 ewes in it

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2 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland @natsheep @TeagascSheep If you want the cover crop grazed I can send you down a few 👌

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1 year

@patrickkehoe700 All pure Romney from the word go, the April born lambs are with the rams for the last 11 days and there is around 40% tipped so far

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4 months

@OuttheGapPodca1 What weight do you kill them at? Are they on meal

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4 months

@Ruck10101982

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 They are measles up here when you turn the sod

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8 months

@Ruck10101982 The rain that fell yesterday evening has the whole place swimming again Cormac

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 Hopefully so it’s less work too without the hassle of getting assaulted at the trough

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1 year

@patrickkehoe700 You may let the ram to them Patrick

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3 months

@Ruck10101982 Don’t be stuck I have a few to spare 👌

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2 months

Thanks to Eriu Ireland for the lovely peace the wrote about our home farm

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2 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland @natsheep @TeagascSheep Good man distance no object

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2 months

@patrickkehoe700 @LocksFarm @SheepIreland @natsheep @TeagascSheep Just over 900 there Patrick 180 lambs and the rest are ewes and hoggets, there is the rest of the lambs to do in a three weeks time

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9 months

@GwionParry I only got it Thursday and am finding my feet with it Gwion, I have all left in the tool box in the cab and join it up when using it, I had all connected up in 2 minutes, I will get a suction cup for the cab and leave it there for the winter next year but it will do as is for now

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8 months

@Ruck10101982 It looks like we are in for a few dry days 🤞

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9 months

@panchdeburca It will do both Nigel and the great thing with this design is that it won’t let any lumps into the blower so no blockages at all

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2 years

@patrickkehoe700 @IFJ_picturedesk I should have enough until the start of March for the big batch and the other ones until early feb or that

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1 year

@NeilFell2 That’s some work Neil 👌

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2 months

@Ruck10101982 I can’t get over the way mine done, I put them on meal ad-lib for 2 weeks and nothing since and they are the same size as the rest of the lambs I weaned a few weeks ago

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2 months

@mark30887364 65 bales out of 10 acres mark, short grass only 10” high but some butt on it

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7 months

@JoeCarty5 @SheepIreland @LocksFarm @TuamHerald Thanks Joe, had a problem with a fox took 2 lambs in the last few days, it looks like it’s not settled yet

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2 months

@Ruck10101982 They will be sound, mine took the ram at 40 kgs and still ended up to 65 going to the ram as hoggets

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8 months

@padraig_breen Thanks Padraig, but to be fair to this breed of sheep cosmetically they might not be as beautiful as your Suffolk mule, Borris ewe or the rest but they are bombproof I only handled 2% of them last year lambing as hoggets outside and without any meal

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