Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
No, not at all, just worried you are going to get frazzled if you’re not careful!!!!
I look forward to reading this everyday, keep it up 'enryy'know what someone asked me today..'when will you finish lambing'...i mean the naivety of failing to understand my revolutionary concept of lambing all yr round...i mean i suppose if you want lambing to stop.. i guess at some stage you have to take the tups out?...'puppydog' and 'stormin norman' are still in the last section of in lambers....IIRC..'stormin norman' rose majestically to tup 'fluffhead' just before i started this diary...so whats that....early july.....thats about the time i think 'humpy' lambed last yr....never easy being a visionary i guess
anyhoo the ewe lambs started proper today with mixed results....first thing i found a dead single and some 'my little pony' size twins....the mum was a little confused but by tonight they look quite viable....lunchtime another tegg produced a terrific single
on my todd today so it gave me a chance to look round everything as i fed/watered....some more into mothering up areas ect.....3 lambs out of hospital...1 in ..though it's just a mild case of joint ill i think and he's a triplet so time to be taken away anyway
had a longer/lazier lunch then tackled my tenants 'plumbing' again...poor girl's been so patient...anyhow i custom made a perfect bolt that along with a new rubber..and there were no leaks
down the docs for more pills for mum....finish up a bit early and home....been a lovely day weatherwise
I look forward to reading this everyday, keep it up 'enry
started 7am today...finished 6:30pm...new time....so whats that 11 1/2 hours....what the fudge have i been doing
1 1/2 hour roast lunch
2 hrs cultivating
1 1/2 hr rolling
1 hr ploughing
1 1/2 fert spreading
1 hr fiddling with machines
1 1/2 looking/tending sheep
1/2 hr moving fert cos stuff i wanted was at back
whats that.....10 1/2 hours......WTF...only an hour for coffee and rollie breaks....must try harder tommoz
todays 'highpoint' trundling around fields in retro (70s) cereal establishment mode....beautiful day .....sheep in correct fields to north...hares playing on bare ground to south
todays 'lowpoint' ....reversing over grandfathers old sack scales and getting wee'd on by an orphan lamb
I'd be 'having a word' with him - a chap of his years shouldn't be just leaving his scales randomly about in a busy modern farmyardtodays 'lowpoint' ....reversing over grandfathers old sack scales
Be careful neither you nor your merry band of helpers catch a dose of it. Orf can be nasty in humans - Mrs YB got a finger infected by some cade lambs a few years ago .It made her quite badly, as we say round here, and she's a fairly tough old stick that takes a bit of stopping.the orf suddenly came back with a vengence in 4 orphans.
Be careful neither you nor your merry band of helpers catch a dose of it. Orf can be nasty in humans - Mrs YB got a finger infected by some cade lambs a few years ago .It made her quite badly, as we say round here, and she's a fairly tough old stick that takes a bit of stopping.
In fact it was that bad I had to give her half an hour off one day so she could go to the doc's
Get some rock salt and some Tubby FRO buckets, the A/B's won't touch it as it's a virus (they will help any secondary infections though)
How did you administer the rock salt or the tubby bucket to Mrs YB?Be careful neither you nor your merry band of helpers catch a dose of it. Orf can be nasty in humans - Mrs YB got a finger infected by some cade lambs a few years ago .It made her quite badly, as we say round here, and she's a fairly tough old stick that takes a bit of stopping.
In fact it was that bad I had to give her half an hour off one day so she could go to the doc's
Get some rock salt and some Tubby FRO buckets, the A/B's won't touch it as it's a virus (they will help any secondary infections though)
How did you administer the rock salt or the tubby bucket to Mrs YB?
Or shouldn't I ask
just back from taking mrs spin's icecream van down to wells...she has a concession down there and sells her dad's farm made icecream...the van's a bit of a lump so 'weeta' tows it down for us....wells harbour is an absolute picture tonight
before that i'd just finished drilling the low input barley....it's fiddly cos it's an 'L' shape round a fallow plot......because it's hls low input i have to lower the seedrate....i shut off every other coulter...it looks a bit odd but i think it's better having a row of strong plant rather than sparse overall.... it's the last yr i have to grow it....yield wise it has ranged 0-2t ac over the years....last year being the 0.....i won't miss growing it TBH....bit of a woopsy as i hadn't emptied the drill after last year....nice job that
mum had to go to have her wounds dressed today...'boy' is home and did the honours taxi wise which was a huge help
sheep wise....3 outta the hospital....2 to orphan pens.....1 to 'dead bag'....no lambing since saturday which i don't mind TBH....we're now into our 'april lambers'
after starting to improve the orf suddenly came back with a vengence in 4 orphans....my theory is orf is associated with stress...mind you, if that were true, i'd be permanently covered.....i resort to pen/strep and antibiotic powder....revue tommoz
mrs spin making rice pudding
being chucked into a nettle patch by the pony