Worm counts, weights, weather and a GPS hill farming trial keep Tomás busy
Tomás O'Toole: 'I hope to wean the lowland lambs at the end of June, and the hill lambs will be weaned later in July.'
The month of May was dry and sunny here in the west with high temperatures; it gave a great start to younger stock on the farm. It has been busy here on the farm over the past two months, with all lambing finished. There have been a few jobs on hand cleaning up the yard and sheds after lambing.
Lambs were given a nematodirus dose in early May (white drench), a mineral dose, and they were also given a pour-on to provide blowfly strike protection during the summer months. With the warm weather we had, and with potentially more warm weather during the summer months, it is important to have this preventative control done to protect lambs and ewes.
