Today at work

[Flossie]

Started the day with a hung lamb Successful outcome, then into milking, loading calves for market, and lambed another before setting off.

14 various calves curry combed ready for sale

Top price Blue bull and top price Simmy heifer

My uncle bought me dinner in the café which was also a result

Back home to rain. Baltic, driving rain, unusually Lamb with hypothermia (which is in front of the fire now, and baaing for a bottle) and the hung lamb from this morning having a stiff neck and needing a tube of colostrum
We're getting there though

 

[Adeptandy]

When was that drilled?

From memory end of November

 

[Old apprentice]

Started the day with a hung lamb Successful outcome, then into milking, loading calves for market, and lambed another before setting off.

14 various calves curry combed ready for sale

View attachment 1176867

Top price Blue bull and top price Simmy heifer

My uncle bought me dinner in the café which was also a result

Back home to rain. Baltic, driving rain, unusually Lamb with hypothermia (which is in front of the fire now, and baaing for a bottle) and the hung lamb from this morning having a stiff neck and needing a tube of colostrum
We're getting there though

Look a good lot of calves

 

[Farmer Roy]

35mm the other night, so that has delayed sorghum harvest by a few days ( grain moisture for sorghum needs to be 13% )

Grain moisture will take a few days to come back down, plus, we don’t like bogging around & making a mess if we don’t have to.
Rain is excellent for planting wheat back into the mung bean stubble next month though

 

[Papa smurf]

Is it late for you?

Yes it is. Ideally we would have got a few acres in at the beginning of march and then quietly kept plodding on.

 

[d williams]

35mm the other night, so that has delayed sorghum harvest by a few days ( grain moisture for sorghum needs to be 13% ) View attachment 1176896View attachment 1176897View attachment 1176898View attachment 1176899View attachment 1176900View attachment 1176901
Grain moisture will take a few days to come back down, plus, we don’t like bogging around & making a mess if we don’t have to.
Rain is excellent for planting wheat back into the mung bean stubble next month though View attachment 1176902

Talking to a mate in Perth they are desperate for rain over there starting to kill on farm as water dams running dry

 

[Keithy1394]

Started the day with a hung lamb Successful outcome, then into milking, loading calves for market, and lambed another before setting off.

14 various calves curry combed ready for sale

View attachment 1176867

Top price Blue bull and top price Simmy heifer

My uncle bought me dinner in the café which was also a result

Back home to rain. Baltic, driving rain, unusually Lamb with hypothermia (which is in front of the fire now, and baaing for a bottle) and the hung lamb from this morning having a stiff neck and needing a tube of colostrum
We're getting there though

Nice calves those do you sell all your calves through gisburn ?

 

[KB6930]

This week started still wet enough we couldn't run the tramlines with the forklift and has dried up a lot since .

Started drilling on Tues afternoon and just been working away between putting fert on ploughing and drilling . It's a fine spring day today.

 

[Getnthair]

This week started still wet enough we couldn't run the tramlines with the forklift and has dried up a lot since .

Started drilling on Tues afternoon and just been working away between putting fert on ploughing and drilling . It's a fine spring day today.View attachment 1176951View attachment 1176953

I recognise those type of stones - very similar over here too.

I have had a long and distinguished career gathering stanes.

Started throwing them onto a wee Fergie trailer - drag harrows were a dreadful tool for bringing them up - with a squad.

Then a spike harrow and power harrows kinda put some of the stones back under.

Nowadays I'm left to wander the tramlines myself picking up the biggest ones with the forklift.

Nice to see you have help - or can drive 2 vehicles simultaneously. Be warm wearing waterproofs - even if it is windy?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Off to the livery yard

 

[KB6930]

I recognise those type of stones - very similar over here too.

I have had a long and distinguished career gathering stanes.

Started throwing them onto a wee Fergie trailer - drag harrows were a dreadful tool for bringing them up - with a squad.

Then a spike harrow and power harrows kinda put some of the stones back under.

Nowadays I'm left to wander the tramlines myself picking up the biggest ones with the forklift.

Nice to see you have help - or can drive 2 vehicles simultaneously. Be warm wearing waterproofs - even if it is windy?

It was forecast for showers so we went prepared soon got the leggings thrown off tho . It was really needing done we filled the forklift bucket 3 times off 25 acre but we did manage to roll it yesterday so could've just lifted the big ones but it looked like rolling was out of the question on monday.
I took the forklift out soon became apparent it was too wet so we just had to load the buggy and empty it into the bucket

 

[ih1455xl]

All fine and dandy until I broke trough the crust ended up swapping it over to the Massey on 710r42 and tyre inflation a few dicey moments but got through

 

[glasshouse]

Broken disc

 

[grainboy]

Roof and some of frame down,

 

[Robt]

Custom built wiring harness for a Harley Davidson . Removing factory rear light assembly and fitting LED. Made this harness so it can be returned to normal if needed by simply unplugging. Harness drawing then printed off and staples to owners manual

 

[mtx.jag]

Could get used to these skies

 

[Flossie]

Look a good lot of calves

Thank you. I like the challenge of getting them fit for sale

Nice calves those do you sell all your calves through gisburn ?

All bar an occasional oddment.
Usually take a batch every 2 or 3 weeks, to make it worth going.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Lovely morning to go out with this

 

[glasshouse]

Found this shifter in a field last autumn all rusted up. Dropped it in a bucket of diesel for 6 months and now it operational again

 

[Old apprentice]

Thank you. I like the challenge of getting them fit for sale

All bar an occasional oddment.
Usually take a batch every 2 or 3 weeks, to make it worth going.

Doing your calves like that when you sell customers will look out for your stock and that will also drive your sales nothing better than seeing stock well done.
I used to take finished bulls to dunbia and Keith Farhurst was always a pleased with them .