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Betty is a dead ringer for the favourite here, Sherbet 😀

You might be eating your words if the rewilding lunatics get their way. Horns might come in handy for seeing off a lynx or wolf!

I have given you a 'like' for finishing lambing and your good wishes, NOT your extraneous reference to the 1966 world cup 🤨

I found a twin, born Saturday and strong so I thought, with with its neck bent back underneath it drowned in a puddle the size of a tea cup 🤷. I have noted this down as 'misadventure', doesn't really do justice to the sheer futility of it! Oh and a fresh twin which may have the victim of a fatal...

Yes, they are banging the drum for a Lynx release in Northumberland again, having been told where to shove it last time 😖

Article in the Vet Record about calving troubles a few months back. It stuck in my mind that Charolais-sired calves featured prominently in the stats.

Lambing due to start on Sunday here but greeted by a big, dead single this morning. That makes it 0/5 so far this year. Nothing survives of the two sets of 'accidental' twins that arrived two months early ☹️

Bending over to jag/worm young lambs is tough on the back 😩

I saw a video once of young bulls getting haltered trained by a donkey which was pulling it along!

It really does my head in, that type of attitude! They're sitting in their nice warm tractor cab listening to the radio doing field 'work', while the suppliers of their store cattle/lambs battle away trying to get them out/keep them alive!

You need to speak to your vet. You shouldn't need to treat with blanket antibiotics, particularly when their use is being restricted to prevent resistance developing.

Would there be a bit of shared ancestry between Dorset Down and Charollais?

Would a Hampshire Down be a viable alternative? Easier to get hold of one!

Carlisle must be closer than 60 miles? You'll get fixed up with a nice bunch of calves privately or contact a dealer?

Can you expand? Opportunities related to SFI?