Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

hill shepherd

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Livestock Farmer
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just got in from butchering a body of venison up that a mate dropped off. Robbie Mule has found my collection of buying cards going back to 2015. They were all over everywhere 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ just taken me 15 minutes to gather them up and get them roughly in the right order again 🤦🏻‍♂️ little sod.
But look at those averages! I didn’t buy the mart shite in the days, Grandad kept me on the bigger gear all the time. The good old days!!
2018 was one of those droughty years when all the hill men were robbed of their store lambs by you lowland fellas, mule gimmers were for nowt that year aswel
 

hill shepherd

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Livestock Farmer
Not not sure we robbed them, I paid £2 less for my lambs than I sold the yearlings for. We sold a lot of sheep for £80 that year after they where worth £120 in the spring. 🤦‍♀️
Was a bit of a tounge in cheek comment really, yes you fellas selling shearlings that year had it rough too but whenever there's a drought or something else which disrupts the trade all the sheep still end up going somewhere and someone gets a good deal usually at the expense of the hill farmers
 

Alias

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Lancashire
It will dry up. It’s a bit warmer into the double figures there is some grass it looked like it was growing yesterday a bit. Turned some tups out yesterday spring is just around the corner. If you want it to stop raining put some fert on
If I tried putting fert on there’d be ruts deep enough to bury a weather forecaster. And then it would all end up in the sea at Preston.
I thought I’d risk getting depressed and have a look at the our long term weather forecast. No sign of any dry weather for the next month 🤦🏻‍♂️😢
 

thorpe

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If I tried putting fert on there’d be ruts deep enough to bury a weather forecaster. And then it would all end up in the sea at Preston.
I thought I’d risk getting depressed and have a look at the our long term weather forecast. No sign of any dry weather for the next month 🤦🏻‍♂️😢
wheat look's to be growing away well here, not rushing out with the spreader yet!
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
2018 was one of those droughty years when all the hill men were robbed of their store lambs by you lowland fellas, mule gimmers were for nowt that year aswel
Ahhhh, I remember that year. That spring hoggs were 120-150 and loads of folk kept texel and Suffolk ewe hoggs back cos they were going to be £200 by august. In reality they were £90-110.
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I can’t see things changing in that respect though, everything we have can be paid for monthly these days, the whole country and others beyond are so entangled in it. A mate of mine lives month to month, knows exactly how much each bit costs and as long as he’s got a bit left over then he’s happy

Mrs NeilO told me the other day that the place she had her hair cut is now offering finance on some of their more expensive beauty treatments. WTF!

She also said that there was a woman in there last time, complaining about the cost of feeding the kids, whilst booking her monthly treatments of massages, facials, nails, etc for about £400 a month.

Priorities are wrong somewhere.
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Mrs NeilO told me the other day that the place she had her hair cut is now offering finance on some of their more expensive beauty treatments. WTF!

She also said that there was a woman in there last time, complaining about the cost of feeding the kids, whilst booking her monthly treatments of massages, facials, nails, etc for about £400 a month.

Priorities are wrong somewhere.
My brother in law has EVERYTHING on tick. All the mod cons, every fashionable thing going. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 

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