f**k Up Fortnight

Jonp

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Gwent
I'm very lucky with my Hereford X cows. I've helped a few with calving ropes or by hand and they just stand or lay so I can help them. Probably would have done it by themselves but... better out than in.
Have learnt to keep my hands in my pockets but also learnt when to take them out! Same applies to sheeps.
 

yellowbelly

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
Well we’ve had our first live lamb this morning. So that’s a plus.
On the minus I’ve just had my 48 hour warning of a APHA inspection on Wednesday morning. Guess I’ll be in the office all day now!
FFS, what bloody awful timing - just started lambing, hoggs going left, right and centre, electric to move and a million and one other jobs and the clipboard jockeys want to come and give you 'a once over' :banghead:
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
FFS, what bloody awful timing - just started lambing, hoggs going left, right and centre, electric to move and a million and one other jobs and the clipboard jockeys want to come and give you 'a once over' :banghead:
Could be worse, they could want too come in 3 weeks when we are going full bore lambing plus trying too do all the other jobs. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Yeah… start spouting 💩 like that and meaning it you can go on the ignored list!! 😂😂
I don’t have anyone on the ignore list, maybe I just get on with everyone. 🤔. I was doing some work for the estate and they rang the manger to say they where coming out in 48 hours, he is a bit notorious for getting his own way, he says to them, come out this afternoon or not at all while the sheep are in. I bet no one ever said that before. The Forman said to me would I need the 48 hours and I said no cos it doesn’t take that long to get out of the country. 😂
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
The paperwork isn’t bad, it just isn’t filled in like they want it! All movements go in the file, any treatments go on the wall board, deaths go on which ever piece of scrap paper I have in my pocket then go in the file later. It all needs transferring from the file/board into the proper format for them!
 

Mc115reed

Member
Livestock Farmer
The paperwork isn’t bad, it just isn’t filled in like they want it! All movements go in the file, any treatments go on the wall board, deaths go on which ever piece of scrap paper I have in my pocket then go in the file later. It all needs transferring from the file/board into the proper format for them!
Same here, I don’t know how anybody with any number of sheep can fill those holding registers in … a well organised file of movement forms and a file of death certificates is all I have
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Don’t know, she was very polite.said our holding had been randomly selected for an APHA sheep inspection. It had too be started be 6pm Wednesday but I could split it into the paperwork visit and a separate one for the stock inspection. Last year I had a cattle one, he wanted some blood samples. He was dead sound, took 4 samples. Had a brew, looked at medicine records looked at cows and off he went. But he rang just as I went into isolation before my back op. So he just postponed it 6 weeks and came then!
Just seen this thread; and the first thing that occurs is to ask: why there is a time limitation...? :banghead:
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
Don’t know, she was very polite.said our holding had been randomly selected for an APHA sheep inspection. It had too be started be 6pm Wednesday but I could split it into the paperwork visit and a separate one for the stock inspection. Last year I had a cattle one, he wanted some blood samples. He was dead sound, took 4 samples. Had a brew, looked at medicine records looked at cows and off he went. But he rang just as I went into isolation before my back op. So he just postponed it 6 weeks and came then!
I suspect @Danllan meant a time limit to f**kups, rather than APHA inspection
 

Danllan

Member
Location
Sir Gar / Carms
Don’t know, she was very polite.said our holding had been randomly selected for an APHA sheep inspection. It had too be started be 6pm Wednesday but I could split it into the paperwork visit and a separate one for the stock inspection. Last year I had a cattle one, he wanted some blood samples. He was dead sound, took 4 samples. Had a brew, looked at medicine records looked at cows and off he went. But he rang just as I went into isolation before my back op. So he just postponed it 6 weeks and came then!

I suspect @Danllan meant a time limit to f**kups, rather than APHA inspection
'Fraid so. (y)
 

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