Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
They'll still be lambing on the hills!
Beef / Lamb & Pig Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
sheepwise
Member
- Location
- SW Scotland
Maybe he doesn’t spend as much time in markets as yourself
They usually have a sale the first week in June,ewes with lamb at foot,a few hoggs and he could fill out the wagon with a puckle stirks.
- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- Cheshire
As a finishing point too “Who’s got the biggest wang” …
certainly isn’t me, and I bow too the master that is GUTH, after careful reading it turns out he’s been farming over 10x the cattle we have and still feeding the same amount of store lambs… I am beaten.
certainly isn’t me, and I bow too the master that is GUTH, after careful reading it turns out he’s been farming over 10x the cattle we have and still feeding the same amount of store lambs… I am beaten.
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Just been through longtown , why are their animal disease control area signs up ?
Ceri
Member
Never a truer word spoken....
Ceri
Member
Doing all that work on a Sunday - there's 6 other days in the week to shovel sh*t.........We do all the field work bar baling. No, we see all the sheep twice a week. Except 1 bunch that are fully shepherded.
but we aren’t talking about other livestock. We are talking about 1 man running a 150 head beef unit from calves - stores and having a job besides. As for cleaning out every day? Straw bedding, scrape feed passages off every Sunday (2/3 merlo buckets off the lot) and proper clean out twice yearly. It’s as difficult as you want too make it. I see people running a fraction of the stock that we do pissing about until all hours and they are no better off.
- Location
- central scotland
Bird flu ?
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I wonderd if that was it ?
Ceri
Member
Sorry ald lad but having to do vat at half 2 in the morning is no shape, u sound as though your a very busy bloke having all those sheep & doing 40hrs a week but best of luck to you if that wat floats your boat....... But caution to you I lost a mate last week of a heart attack @ 42 yrs old, he had alot on his plate & worked silly hours...... No feckin good to him now hey.....
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I could have done it last night but went to the pub.
Ceri
Member
Fair dos I retract my statement good shout
Was that a dairy farmer with two little’unsSorry ald lad but having to do vat at half 2 in the morning is no shape, u sound as though your a very busy bloke having all those sheep & doing 40hrs a week but best of luck to you if that wat floats your boat....... But caution to you I lost a mate last week of a heart attack @ 42 yrs old, he had alot on his plate & worked silly hours...... No feckin good to him now hey.....
- Location
- Northumberland
Bloody hope so,and its not something nasty like F@M. Wonder what we would all do if that broke out again.There would be no compensation if it happened again.
Are you any worse off for slowing down ?
yes there would
- Location
- Northumberland
Who from?
The Jolly Farmer
Member
No, but he will be paying a mortgage on a decent house, driving a smart car and taking the family on a couple of holidays a year without working silly hours. Working silly hours for yourself is one thing but mixing it with employment is another, I hope you don't have or cause an accident as a result of tiredness.
- Location
- Cheshire
They are chasing sheep days!Doing all that work on a Sunday - there's 6 other days in the week to shovel sh*t.........
it’s a nice quiet Sunday morning job. 