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Sentence Examples Mr Chambers and his wife Wendy, who keep a herd of Hebridean sheep on their smallholding near Monkton Farleigh, are busy lambing this week. There are mares in foal in nearby fields on top of the fact that it is lambing season. Ms Wright is from Mallerstang and has spent ten years shepherding and lambing. I'd have to sell the sheep which would be very stressful for them because they are lambing. If poultry are secured and lambing is done indoors, that would remove a food source for the foxes. The sheep are lambing at the moment and if you start moving them or stressing them out they abort and you have no lambs to show for it. Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted. A mid season lambing flock of 240 ewes is also run with the cattle enterprise. Foxes carry away such fatalities and are often seen in the lambing fields hoping to scavenge afterbirth. Although many ewes have already dropped their lambs, some producers have ewes lambing through to August. In one photograph he stands in his lambing camp, duded up in a white shirt, black vest, and tie. The good farmer who fed his ewes well before lambing rarely complained of foxes. This eases the pressure on labour and reduces the demand for space at lambing in his sheep shed. It has been an eventful lambing season at Brynonen, where another ewe gave birth to quins. If you see any sheep keds at shearing time this year, plan to treat the animals, preferably before lambing. Landowners can apply for restriction orders for 28 days over the year to keep walkers out of their fields at sensitive times like lambing. With the lambing season now under way dog owners are reminded to keep their dogs under control. Her husband Ian is manhandling sheep through wire fences for crutch shearing, ahead of lambing. After years of cold winters and late, wet springs he delayed lambing by a few weeks. Out in freezing rain before dawn, out on winter nights for lambing and calving, hill farmers get back injuries, arthritis and lung disease. Show More Sentences It is the first show of the season and I think everybody is ready for getting to a show after lambing, and it's nice to get out and meet people. They said they would like to visit a farm, especially during lambing, to get up close to some of the animals. Pregnant women should avoid close contact with sheep and lambs during the lambing season. This book is a revised edition that provides practical guidance and information on aspects of lambing and lamb care. He also asked the pupils how many of them came from farms, and whether they were lambing at home. The reference to 'spreading flocks' would more plausibly refer to the lambing season, in early spring, when flocks enlarge dramatically. Ewes heavy in lamb become very quiet, and near lambing are more vigilant and graze less. It's stopped my skin chapping when I used to go round lambing the ewes. Removing the ewes' heavy fleeces at this stage makes lambing a cleaner, more efficient process and lets the newborn lambs find the ewes' teats more easily. The excessively rainy weather was troubling lambing in Wigglesworth. Keeping good breeding and lambing records will greatly aid in culling the problem out of your flock. She could blight crops as easily as bless them, deliver at a difficult lambing and assist the occasional human birth for those too poor to have a more qualified attendant. Then he moved on to sniff around the sheep where the lambing pen had been. The facilities include fences, waterers, corrals, dipping vats, and lambing and shearing sheds. Guests can help as much or as little as they like with collecting eggs, looking after ponies, feeding pigs and helping out with lambing. The breed requires little or no supplementary feeding except before lambing. An insulated, well-ventilated barn or shed is preferable for intensive confinement rearing or lambing in winter. Ewes lambing under grazing conditions should be supervised to ensure that any problems are given prompt attention. It is also common practice to feed concentrates to suckling ewes for a few weeks after lambing. Do not use in sheep which are intended to produce milk for human consumption within 60 days of lambing. Show More Sentences It is quite common for farmers to protect lambs at lambing season against predators such as coyotes and foxes. They also run a flock of early lambing sheep and a small suckler cow herd. With ewes lambing now, lambs for slaughter are in short supply. The Department of Agriculture has requested well known animal nutritionist Dr John Milton to prepare an overview of strategies to feed pregnant and lambing ewes. Tim Bennett, deputy president of the National Farmers' Union was in high level talks at MAFF yesterday to ask for restrictions on lambing ewes to be lifted. Instead, farmers are leaving a cluster of tussock in their paddocks, because they have found that ewes like to tuck under those tussocks at the time they are lambing. Adrian Bateson is lambing on the family farm and is unavailable. They should avoid contact with clothing, boots and utensils, which have come into contact with sheep at lambing, with newborn lambs, with aborted lambs or the afterbirth. It is the season for lambing and sheep owners in the area are very worried as there have been a few small incidents already and they are hoping this will not happen again. The Ministry of Agriculture and The Journal of Applied Ecology, UK both agree that in studies of upland lambing, lamb losses were unaffected by the presence of foxes. Lambs which drink sufficient colostrum soon after birth will be protected from a disease common in intensive indoor lambing flocks in Pembrokeshire. This may be by helping out at a local practice for a couple of hours a week or even gaining experience as a farmhand or helping out during the lambing season. If possible, put ewes in the lambing area a few days before lambing to reduce stress, especially first-time lambers. If animals are to be confined in a barn in winter for lambing, failure to shear beforehand can result in high moisture levels and health problems. Night lambers can sleep in college hostel Many learners are also busy lambing on their home farms or at their work placements. This affects words such as lamb and plumb, as well as derived forms with suffixes, such as lambs, lambing, plumbed, plumber. In the case of any such problems, those present at lambing may assist the ewe by extracting or repositioning lambs. Using a mixer wagon in a total mixed ration system offers higher total dry matter intake, faster energy balance after lambing and easy use of by-products or straw in the rations. Many other specific terms for the various life stages of sheep exist, generally related to lambing, shearing, and age. They are bred by natural service, but the Basque-Béarnaise mates earlier in the year than the two Manech and this allows for a lambing season starting as early as September. Show More Sentences I know it's a busy time for you with lambing season going on, so it's nice that you can get out of the farm and to us to explain the fishery concern. With the start of the lambing season now upon us, Alastair Cook may not have found a spare moment to catch up with events at Centurion, but, if he did, the England captain may just have afforded himself a wry smile. There is the relentless routine of sheep husbandry castration, tail docking, fly strike, lambing, death and the overarching influence of dreadful weather. All lambing occurs outside in lambing paddocks. Since several animals are often treated at once, the use of these products has the added benefit of synchronizing estrus and thus tightening the lambing season. Reclamation of habitat for bighorn sheep has been particularly successful at both the Gregg River and Luscar Mines, with the reclaimed landscape used primarily as winter range but also for lambing, rutting and summer use. He worked every day all year, mostly from 5 A. M. to seven or eight at night — milking, lambing, fencing, logging, spreading manure, planting, weeding, haying, harvesting, each night locking up chickens against foxes. The Charmoise breed is maintained in the specifications mainly to facilitate lambing by first-lambing ewes and the finishing of lambs on pasture in the autumn. Some llamas appear to bond more quickly to sheep or goats if they are introduced just prior to lambing. The lambing season at that time was in March and lambs were shorn in August. Lameness can result in a decline in body condition, lower lambing percentages, lower birth weights, reduced growth rates, reduced milk production, lower fertility and reduced wool growth. Last night, I was – excuse my French – knackered, I had to go lambing. A large 'drop area' can have pen dividers of bales, or small panels secured to one wall to allow the privacy that ewes seek out just prior to lambing. When lambing in winter, a section of the building that can be partially heated or enclosed so that the temperature remains near or above freezing is essential to the livelihood of newborn lambs. Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing. Peak production is in spring and early summer because the sheep can feed on the excellent spring mountain pastures, demand for lamb is high over the Easter period and lambing is accordingly programmed. Ewes are often revaccinated annually about 3 weeks before lambing, to provide high antibody concentrations in colostrum during the first several hours after lambing. He was an experienced sheep farmer whom years earlier had traded off his flock of high producing Suffolks for smaller hardier Karakuls, noted for their lambing ease. And be ready for kidding and lambing with heat lamps, blankets, disbudding boxes, nipple waterers, iodine or other disinfectant to treat the naval cord. Examples from Classical Literature Well, it was just the lambing time, and Kirstin had to look after the ewes. They had been driven there the summer before from the lambing grounds in the mountains. The lambing season had come and gone, and the flock of sheep had doubled in number. These, with a few hands at lambing time, and two or three odd-job men at the central station, make up the whole staff. Well, Shepherd Oak, and how's lambing this year, if I mid say it? What used to be our best time, the lambing season, came to be the worst. Terrible fellows, both of them, in lambing time or in the poultry yard. Father's up at the lambing camp, and I've fed all the little beasties. After my return to Clifton, I was kept busy preparing for lambing. And in January and February too, when all the lambing is coming on. Find more words! 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