The farming year at Bradley Farm starts in April. Choose a period to find out what happens on the farm in different months of the year. There are also sections for those tasks that recur throughout the winter or the whole year. April Lambing (1 st April) 6 weeks
Calving (beginning of march)
Cows coming out of sheds, one cattle shed becomes lambing shed.
Worm Ewes May Lambing
Remove stock from certain fields to conserve fields for silage
Fertilize fields and pastures that aren't in stewardship
Muck out sheds, for use in spreading later in year
Lambs get first worm dose (6 - 8 weeks old)
Yearlings Cattle worm bolous (6 month protection) June School visits
Hay and Silage cut
Spraying for thistles in pastures
Fly control for lambs and Ewes
Clip the hogs and tups (Rams) July Making silage and hay
Clip Ewes
Muck spread on hay fields (cleared)
August Wean the Lambs
Sell the Lambs
Dose Lambs
Fetch straw from Arable farms in the East. September Sell the Lambs
Dip all sheep (Ewes and Rams) against sheep scab
Buy Rams October Sell the Lambs
Buy Rams
Sort the Ewes out (for ones they don't want)
Vaccinate for foot rot and give worm dose
Sort out all Ewes (breeding stock)
Sell ones to Market or as draft Ewes
1st Clostridial vaccination for Hogs
November Sell the Lambs
Rams go out
House cattle & Wean calves (separate sheds to cows)
Worm cattle
Winter feeding twice a day, bedding once a day
House lambs
Feed lambs
December Sell the Lambs
House Cattle
2nd Clostridial vaccination for Hogs
Winter feeding twice a day, bedding once a day
Feed lambs January Sell the Lambs
Feed the Ewes
Copper injection Ewes to prevent swayback in lambs
Scan sheep
Slip Ewes into twin bearing and single bearing (for feeding purposes)
Febuary Sell the Lambs
Clostridial annual booster for Ewes so that it passes in milk to new born lambs
Perth Bull Sales (Aberdeen Angus) every 2 or 3 years a new stock bull is purchased. March Calving Year Round Tasks Selling Cattle
General Health Checks
Mastitis Sheep and Cows
Foot care for Sheep and Cattle
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