F u king lambing

Ceri

Member
A few of the die hard sheep men over on the lamb & beef tracker take the Micky out the arable Boys trying their hand at sheep but then sacking it off cause they're alot of hassle & work. They insinuate they're work shy pansies & not real men šŸ’Ŗ I smile to myself & think no actually they're the sharp cookies & we're the feckin dull ones.........šŸ˜†šŸ˜†šŸ˜†šŸ˜†
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Look up North London nullos. Ā£80 a pop
Aye, thanks for that šŸ˜³

Voluntary castration cult on pay per view? Started by a Japanese "fellow" who cooked and fed paying diners the left over bits?

It's high time booths are set up for these people to voluntarily turn themselves into fertiliser.

And folks say doing a lambing is mad?????
 

bluebell

Member
And the public wonder why livestock in some areas have gone all together, or hardly any about ? only growth round here in keeping livestock, is the nature parks, RSPB reserves and the like? that need livestock to manage the ground, its like that area with a few sows or four cattle fenced in a few hundred acres looked after by a couple of employees, that work, if you call it work 5 days a week, provided with a pickup truck, etc etc etc?
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
We had sheep. We still have arable. The sheep work itself is OK if thatā€™s all you have to do. You can focus on it and do it well and right. Itā€™s when a ewe struggling to lamb clashes with the only afternoon of the week when you could get the T1 on 50 acres that they become quite an aggravation. You can get a huge amount of arable work done in the time you can spend clatting about with one sheep. Yes I know we should just let them get on with it, but it never seems to be that simple.
 

Blue.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Just before lambing started we were moving some ewes and the Mrs uttered ā€œI f**king hate sheepā€ whether she likes it or not sheā€™s an absolutely brilliant shepherd,like calf feeding sheā€™s a natural.

Itā€™s a bit like milking cows every day,not everyone can do it,I find it very rewarding,I started with sheep at 13 years old and Iā€™m sure my kids will do the same.
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
We had sheep. We still have arable. The sheep work itself is OK if thatā€™s all you have to do. You can focus on it and do it well and right. Itā€™s when a ewe struggling to lamb clashes with the only afternoon of the week when you could get the T1 on 50 acres that they become quite an aggravation. You can get a huge amount of arable work done in the time you can spend clatting about with one sheep. Yes I know we should just let them get on with it, but it never seems to be that simple.
well put & thats the trouble with animals basically they can take far more of your time up than anything Arable can.
Plus when its a real poor day or week or weeks you dont need to be out in the weather looking at the crops !
 

jendan

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Just before lambing started we were moving some ewes and the Mrs uttered ā€œI f**king hate sheepā€ whether she likes it or not sheā€™s an absolutely brilliant shepherd,like calf feeding sheā€™s a natural.

Itā€™s a bit like milking cows every day,not everyone can do it,I find it very rewarding,I started with sheep at 13 years old and Iā€™m sure my kids will do the same.
Why doesnt she post anymore?
 

Hfd Cattle

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Best thin about the sheep here is that they will all be gone back home by Easter šŸ˜ŠšŸ˜Š

Had about 20 get out yesterday on a bypass just outside Hfd . 4 police cars turned up and 6 coppers . They wouldn't let me get them back in till they had closed the road to give me and the dog a 'safe working environment'
 

Old Tup

Member
Aye, 1977 was a great summer when I was a kid, not been so good since....:LOL:
Remember Joyce on This Farming Life talking about being thrown into lambing after her Dad diedā€¦.North wind was blowing the foam off the sea well in landā€¦.and there she wasā€¦.Joyceā€™s comment?ā€¦.ā€I just sat down behind a wall and criedā€ā€¦.
ā€œBut got up and got on with itā€¦ā€
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
watch 'tammy's the name, sheep's the game', on u'tube, he's going through outside lambing, in Scotland, in the pouring rain.
Recalling some lambing's we had, l have the highest regard for him, even though l think he's nut's. Leaves the indoor lambing to his mrs, reckon he has it the wrong way around.!!
 

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