livestock 1
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Yep same here
Too cold
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Stw88
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- Northumberland
in your head lambing time is the hard part when actually the work only starts once they've hit the ground. 2.5-3 hours it’s been taking to do a round but last night took over 4 with all the problems. Starved pair in the last field, then you start thinking if only I had started at the other end.
livestock 1
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We all think this way but shouldn’t really it does no good. This is what I was talking about the difference between crop losses and livestock losses. Crop losses are blamed by whether livestock losses are blamed on who’s looking after them as a rule anywayin your head lambing time is the hard part when actually the work only starts once they've hit the ground. 2.5-3 hours it’s been taking to do a round but last night took over 4 with all the problems. Starved pair in the last field, then you start thinking if only I had started at the other end.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
We are getting feked over with dead stock , we ahould be getting it at min free and even oaid for but the government have done a job on is not allowing burying so that buried our bargaining chip … barstewards
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
.40kg plus uplift fee , probably 4k a load !
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Yes the hard graft is after the lambing ..in your head lambing time is the hard part when actually the work only starts once they've hit the ground. 2.5-3 hours it’s been taking to do a round but last night took over 4 with all the problems. Starved pair in the last field, then you start thinking if only I had started at the other end.
doing a bit of renovation on our farmhouse and the builders had been on a big job previously building a mansion for a knackerman
livestock 1
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More profit in dead sheep than there is in live ones
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Sad aint it.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Cretins that make the rules burried out bargining chip which is ,,, pay for it or bugger off i bury it ..
livestock 1
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They should be working out the carbon carry on with what goes onto dead stock collections
bobajob
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- Location
- Sw Scotland
Very cold this morning. Its not helping grass growth 
beardface
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
Looks like we've get another Sunday deluge forecast and then hopefully a much more improved forecast going forwards
- Location
- Highland
0.1C at 5am and drizzle all night FFS. We had to bring in 3 sets last night that were just put from inside to outdoor observation pens. Did I mention? 2 bought in gimmers with miniscule udders? Black tagged? Yes, them, with their miniscule lambs.
The whole lot are worth 100 quid I reckon. And will require a ridiculous amount of attention. And no doubt bottles when they get too fast to catch
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The other one is a pet and a real warrior. An old-school black blackie known as Mrs. Black, age unknown. Wool like a yak and has tup twins every year. She's done herself well having two big fat ewe lambs this year. She will be staying on in retirement and can swagger around keeping the hoggs in their place. She's back in her field this morning ruling the roost. Lambs so full they can hardly move
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The whole lot are worth 100 quid I reckon. And will require a ridiculous amount of attention. And no doubt bottles when they get too fast to catch
. The other one is a pet and a real warrior. An old-school black blackie known as Mrs. Black, age unknown. Wool like a yak and has tup twins every year. She's done herself well having two big fat ewe lambs this year. She will be staying on in retirement and can swagger around keeping the hoggs in their place. She's back in her field this morning ruling the roost. Lambs so full they can hardly move
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