Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
f**k Up Fortnight
- Thread starter yellowbelly
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- Location
- N.Lincs
you’re not wrong there
Why have you lot still got scanned empty’s about. Mine go the day after scanning.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Mine will be young sheep/ first timers so I’ll give them another chance
Got 3 left in the sheds at work and none look like lambing and as tomorrow is the last day they will be one waggon to go on Thursday. Nice to finish and get the sheds empty (apart from them pet lambs of corse 
). I don’t think our sheds are ever actually empty because by the time the pets are gone we are housing finished lambs and when they are nearly done the ewes come back in again. Got less than 70 left of my own so should be done in 10 days, going to celebrate the end with copious amounts of alcohol.
). I don’t think our sheds are ever actually empty because by the time the pets are gone we are housing finished lambs and when they are nearly done the ewes come back in again. Got less than 70 left of my own so should be done in 10 days, going to celebrate the end with copious amounts of alcohol.
Nothing gets a second chance here, if they stand on my foot I kill them
. I don’t think I like sheep really or just really like going to market. 
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- N.Lincs
Ours don't get separated until we gather the Warren to bring them home for lambing.
By then there's usually too much going on to find time/be ar$ed to do anything about it.
It's only a few and because we graze loads of bits and bobs of stewardship in various locations we always need a few summer grazers.
Little empty Herdys, in lambing condition, don't make much anyway - they're worth a tad more when they've had some spring grass inside them.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Similar story here, young sheep kept anyway and geld ewes came inside with the mob.
Mrs been ill and general life getting in the way etc
She’s on her way home from work now and then dashing off to Buckinghamshire as her dads taken a turn for the worse .
She was going to go last Sunday but her mum said it’s ok he’s a bit better
I am now on with moving the inbye ewes so I can shut down a mowing meadow, then I need to get hoggs off to away ground, and then … go through the moor ewes and lambs and get them gone …, and then go through the easy care experiment and get them off to another away piece.
That’s my few days planned out
Makes me laugh when the big boys say , “what you doing after breakfast “
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Empty hoggs go around hoovering up the worm burden away from the lambs. Most are kept to lamb as 2-ths. Empty ewes generally sold asap after scanning, unless there's a very good reason why they should be kept. Being a good leader is among the reasons.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Still got the hogg triplets to look forward to 
Joy!!!!Still got the hogg triplets to look forward to
I am up against Herself a bit, although I know where she is coming from...
Got one old cade ewe, had 2-3 crops, but scanned empty this time and was saved from the cull trailer by your very argument... She will go onto the Solar farm and help educate the hooligans down there, as she will come from miles away, at the rattle of a bucket!!
Big boys are possibly 20 years younger, and on easier ground.....Similar story here, young sheep kept anyway and geld ewes came inside with the mob.
Mrs been ill and general life getting in the way etc
She’s on her way home from work now and then dashing off to Buckinghamshire as her dads taken a turn for the worse .
She was going to go last Sunday but her mum said it’s ok he’s a bit better
I am now on with moving the inbye ewes so I can shut down a mowing meadow, then I need to get hoggs off to away ground, and then … go through the moor ewes and lambs and get them gone …, and then go through the easy care experiment and get them off to another away piece.
That’s my few days planned out
Makes me laugh when the big boys say , “what you doing after breakfast “
Sorry to hear the news on the FiL.
Lili
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- Aberystwyth hinterland
Last ewe lamb lambed this morning. 2024 has been "challenging" to say the least, but only 6 months until the tups go in again and Roll on Lambing 2025!! (I must want my head looking at).
Thanks to everyone on here who've been honest enough to share their troubles, provide some much needed humour and cheer us up with the thought of "at least someone else is having a shi**y time as well". Good luck to anyone whose sheep are still producing and here's hoping for a decent summer.
Thanks to everyone on here who've been honest enough to share their troubles, provide some much needed humour and cheer us up with the thought of "at least someone else is having a shi**y time as well". Good luck to anyone whose sheep are still producing and here's hoping for a decent summer.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
As long as she brings the rest.I am up against Herself a bit, although I know where she is coming from...
Got one old cade ewe, had 2-3 crops, but scanned empty this time and was saved from the cull trailer by your very argument... She will go onto the Solar farm and help educate the hooligans down there, as she will come from miles away, at the rattle of a bucket!!
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Busy, busy. It makes me chuckle when off-farm job colleagues tell me that when lambing is over, I'll have lots of free time to relax before starting with them again.Similar story here, young sheep kept anyway and geld ewes came inside with the mob.
Mrs been ill and general life getting in the way etc
She’s on her way home from work now and then dashing off to Buckinghamshire as her dads taken a turn for the worse .
She was going to go last Sunday but her mum said it’s ok he’s a bit better
I am now on with moving the inbye ewes so I can shut down a mowing meadow, then I need to get hoggs off to away ground, and then … go through the moor ewes and lambs and get them gone …, and then go through the easy care experiment and get them off to another away piece.
That’s my few days planned out
Makes me laugh when the big boys say , “what you doing after breakfast “
Adding to the good wishes for your F-i-L.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Absolutely! Hope your flock romps along as well as can possibly be after the difficulties!
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- N.Lincs
Yeah, second that @Wood field
F**k up fortnight pales into insignificance in the light of that sort of news.
No matter how big a 'disaster' we had on the farm, Dad always used to say, "At least it's not in the house."
- Location
- Highland
Mr in Skin still alive, she hasn't killed him and he hasn't starved. Still needs a bit of supervision, looking hopeful. UNTIL I was fiddling with the sprayer peeing disinfectant all over my hand, and heard scraping. She's licking and chewing at the plywood divider wall OMG. Twitchy eye. Bit skittery.
Just got the calmag in her, TLD, and a chunk of salt in her dish. She's eating cut grass so hopefully I caught it in time. I can only think the lamb has pulled a lot out of her pretty quickly. He was only 24 hours old but well on the go and could suck a bottle down no problem.
I'm half a mind to give him a half bottle this evening to let her get going again. Defo getting the green cable tie, one misstep next year and gone. Her lamb died in the cowl.
Just got the calmag in her, TLD, and a chunk of salt in her dish. She's eating cut grass so hopefully I caught it in time. I can only think the lamb has pulled a lot out of her pretty quickly. He was only 24 hours old but well on the go and could suck a bottle down no problem.
I'm half a mind to give him a half bottle this evening to let her get going again. Defo getting the green cable tie, one misstep next year and gone. Her lamb died in the cowl.