I haven’t watched it but have seen the thumb nails of 3 sat in a buggy. If you got that much staff for 800 might as well lamb inside and as the hassle.
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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Don’t think he’s got the right breed of ewes for outdoor lambing really.
What’s he lambing now? Did have cheviots and blackies last time I watch (was a while ago mind)
edn
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- Location
- Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire
Fair few scotch mules and cheviots what would really pee me off is whenever he lambs a ewe and lets it go it disappears into the distance and he then spends half hour trying to catch it again and takes it inside with its lambs .
edn
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- Location
- Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire
You can’t be having that outdoors, the number one priority regardless of breed is they’re glued to their lambs whether you’ve had to lamb them or not.
- Location
- Scottish Borders
I've seen far too many blackies disappearing over the horizon. Anything I have to touch either gets brought inside or tied to a fence by her horns until they are deemed to be no longer a flight risk
- Location
- Boston, Lincolnshire
Watching it now. Im not enjoying these videos as much as I normally do. He just cant catch a break
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Sounds like he's making more work of it than he needs to. If you have sheep that you know will feck off like that, as tegs can often do if you lamb them, then pen it up somewhere straight away.
I suppose he has to make something for the camera though...
ritchiekirkland
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M8 old man went to shoot a Hogg with bolt gun once . Put it against hoggs head and pushed down and pulled trigger …
had gun wrong way around and put bolt straight through his hand!
Took a few years before he could have a laugh about it right enough
A few pens in the field would seem like a good idea to me.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I have a catching pen in my singles paddock, where the tegs are. They only usually need an hour or so left in there to settle down and bond with their lamb, then leave the gate open.
I usually have the bike trailer on too, so any problems can go straight in and back to pens indoors.
- Location
- Fife
That's what I do. Anything that goes in a pen, I take it's ear as rent.
What a crappy afternoon, 3 dead ewes with mag and 3 sick with mastitis. Bloody sheep can’t half make you pee'd off this time of year after your tired from trying to keep the bloody things alive at lambing.
The cold wind won’t have done them any good but hopefully the weather has turned a corner now.
Bloody sheep. Good thing here is my predecessor was very good at record keeping and had the exact same problems every year. We can grow grass but have massive problems with both mag and mastitis.
Nowt worse than going round in the mornings picking up dead ewes with lambs beside them .
- Location
- North Antrim
He's lambing 2000 this year as far as I know.
f**king hell that will be a shock to him. A lot of borrowed money to get to that number these days.
