- Location
- South wales
On the theme of the wooly menace once saw a fat lam with his ears bitten off to the skull by a bloody horse
Ever get te feeling fate is out to get you?!?!
- Thread starter Guiggs
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General-Lee
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- Location
- Devon
What both?? Must be a glutton for punishment or was there 2 horses?On the theme of the wooly menace once saw a fat lam with his ears bitten off to the skull by a bloody horse
- Location
- South wales
No the horse had him run ragged so two quick nips is all it took
Only
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- Location
- Powys/Shropshire border
It's all too familiar is this thread bad am here bloody sheep
Guiggs
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Mwah ha ha ha!
- Location
- Hertfordshire
I'm in the process of starting a small dairy using a mobile milking parlour driven by a generator. Two days after the first cow calved I managed to slip a disc in my back. Real agony (scan shows a piece of disc floating round in my spinal canal, pressing on my sciatic nerve. Ouch!)
Next day the generate started playing up - backfiring, stalling and generally upsetting the milkers. Try pull-starting a generator dozens of times with a prolapsed disc, when each time it stalls the units fall off the cow...
The stress probably contributed to the next thing that happened: as the last cow came out of my 'parlour' she leapt in the air and galloped of into the darkness (I'm milking at 4.30am before my proper day starts!) Wondering what's startled her I go looking, and find her lying in her side paddling in the air, neck outstretched. Grass staggers! Call the vet, he comes out ASAP and over two hours manages to stabilise her and get her sitting up.
Generator's still not running properly and over the next week gets worse and worse. I manage to borrow a second one but that packs up after two milkings, so I have to milk by hand for a few days. My forearms are like Popeye's!
And to top it all, the NFU Mutual have declined to insure my new business because I'm selling raw milk (though several other insurance companies have quoted) and the Food Standards Agency have taken several weeks to come out and visit my premises to licence me as a milk production holding (they're coming tomorrow all being well) so I've been throwing away gallons of milk each day that I'm not legally allowed to sell.
Today I feel like I've got flu, though I may just be worn down by it all....
Good job I love farming
Next day the generate started playing up - backfiring, stalling and generally upsetting the milkers. Try pull-starting a generator dozens of times with a prolapsed disc, when each time it stalls the units fall off the cow...
The stress probably contributed to the next thing that happened: as the last cow came out of my 'parlour' she leapt in the air and galloped of into the darkness (I'm milking at 4.30am before my proper day starts!) Wondering what's startled her I go looking, and find her lying in her side paddling in the air, neck outstretched. Grass staggers! Call the vet, he comes out ASAP and over two hours manages to stabilise her and get her sitting up.
Generator's still not running properly and over the next week gets worse and worse. I manage to borrow a second one but that packs up after two milkings, so I have to milk by hand for a few days. My forearms are like Popeye's!
And to top it all, the NFU Mutual have declined to insure my new business because I'm selling raw milk (though several other insurance companies have quoted) and the Food Standards Agency have taken several weeks to come out and visit my premises to licence me as a milk production holding (they're coming tomorrow all being well) so I've been throwing away gallons of milk each day that I'm not legally allowed to sell.
Today I feel like I've got flu, though I may just be worn down by it all....
Good job I love farming
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kernowcluck
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- Location
- Cornwall
B hell why do we do it? The public have no idea.
Recently I have found a bullock hanging upside down by the loose skin round his navel area (!!) having tried to jump a big hurdle and caught himself on the bit that sticks up at the end. Made me feel quite bad but I managed to get him down - lord knows how.He laid down for a moment , sprang to his feet and kicked me in the knee. Ungrateful begger. The next day I went out in the morning and found one of my Guernsey cows had put her head into the round feeder and out through the adjacent gap. Had to cut the bar out to release her head. Luckily it was a very heavy feeder otherwise she would have carted it into the next parish. So glad I haven't got Limos.
Recently I have found a bullock hanging upside down by the loose skin round his navel area (!!) having tried to jump a big hurdle and caught himself on the bit that sticks up at the end. Made me feel quite bad but I managed to get him down - lord knows how.He laid down for a moment , sprang to his feet and kicked me in the knee. Ungrateful begger. The next day I went out in the morning and found one of my Guernsey cows had put her head into the round feeder and out through the adjacent gap. Had to cut the bar out to release her head. Luckily it was a very heavy feeder otherwise she would have carted it into the next parish. So glad I haven't got Limos.
JohnGalway
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- Location
- Connemara, Ireland
Fate seems a bit pee'd at me lately.