The Poultry Keeper

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: scanning today

we are going to be busy Confused

51 lots of twins and only 16 singles Shocked

trudiewoo scanned as twins, makes a change from the usual triplets

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

and you didn't bother with the goats Wink

they'll be quads Wink

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

they'd better not be quads Shocked

not convinced that trudiewoo is only twins yet Rolling Eyes

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

one day she'll surprize you and have a single Wink

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

and like it??? Rolling Eyes

OH says maybe she'll like twins better than triplets

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

not spoilt is she deb Wink

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

she might be slightly ruined Embarassed

don't get why she doesn't like lambs though

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1356 Location: Leicestershire

I've been scanning today as well Laughing

117 cows at 4 different farms in Lincolnshire Very Happy

Itsybitsy

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

itsybitsy, do you go all over the country?

the scanners here come from the mainland for a few days and go round the whole island

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

come on itsy ,you know you want a holiday ,could do with someone who can do the goats Wink

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2478 Location: South Cumbria

The farm next door started lambing last week they seem to be nearly all twins not the mad rush yet I think that will be next week, as they have just put the marquee up they use it as a lambing shed !

debcat · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

we start on april the 1st
OH has 5 permanent pens in his barn plus another couple that can be made from hurdles if we need them
I've only got 3 ewe's this year
Trudiewoo has to have her own pen, she needs alot of persuading that her lambs are meant for her to feed Confused

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1356 Location: Leicestershire

I tend to travel within about 100 miles of home, I don't go North of the Humber, or much South of the M25, but I would go anywhere if there were enough animals to make it worth it - I go to Dorset once a month.

The sheep scanner ought to do goats, but sometimes they can't be bothered to stop rushing and do a few. I can understand that, the "big boys" will be doing 60,000 sheep in the season, I only do about 5,000, really I'm a cow scanner who does a few sheep, and I'm so bloody lazy that I quite like doing half a dozen and then going home Laughing

I've got a lot of little jobs that the big boys don't want, I think somebody with 50 sheep is just as important as somebody with 500. ( like my monika)

Itsybitsy

debcat · Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:58 am Post subject:

we take them all to the communal fank and do a few peoples altogether,
there were 5 lots where ours where done, about 150 altogether
then the scanner was moving a few miles down the road and doing a few more flocks