Recent content by Boydvalley

Ford fuel 1500l red 74.8p

Just a thought, but we won’t put up anything permanent here that’s near a road. Makes it too easy to pinch stock. Your situation may be different.

Sorry Is a bit harsh on students generally.I’ve had some very good ones, but these 3 this year were useless and hard work. Glacial, not inquisitive, needed to be micro managed and very poor communication skills. Covid generation is definitely a thing. Normally I enjoy having them and giving...

F…ing useless students. How can you work with the sheep for over two and not get that they need water and silage in the pens and pet lambs need their milk filling up and…………….. There I feel better now. Least he didn’t kill anything. Might be his report summary.

Charged £30 for mine, 2 weeks ago. No quibble. Teat trained.

Plus some electrolytes

Just snock one the wife’s best kitchen knives back that I’ve found in the shed that I’ve been using to skin lambs🤫

Think you need a vet just to put your mind at rest because you would be one of the unluckiest people in the world to get all 3 in one year.

3 years ago I bought a 1850 Lancaster Hammer-gun to compete in my gun club hammer competition, completely forgetting it was always during lambing. So this year I was determined to enter. Left the student to it and buggered off to it. What a great three hours, good banter with the lads I was...

Did a student lambing job a long long time ago and the farmer was very insistent that I came to the farm to meet him a couple of months before. When I got there he shock my hand and said you’ve got the job. All he wanted to see was the size of my hands (Long and thin). Stuck with me ever since...

At least you can tick the diversity box.

When I had an outbreak it was confirmed by foetal test but if I remember it took a while to culture. Most abortion testing is now done by blood antibodies. One of the drug companies are doing free tests, can’t remember which, but your vet should know. Be aware Campy is very contagious.

Normally hit a wet mouth wall 3/4s in. Always cleaned pen out, limed, fresh bedding. However this year when we started getting a few cases I was persuaded to ditch the lime and spray disinfectant instead. The reason given was lime needs moisture and 12hrs to work. Spray disinfectant is almost...

Had a few at the start of lambing like this, had some schmallenberg at the same time. Vet view was schmallenberg can effect the cerebellum in mild cases which controls balance. All came good after a couple of days.

Do not, I repeat, do not buy one. Neighbour had one as a garden run about. Gave up on it at 100miles. Everything broke.Had privilege of it being sat in my shed for awhile. It is literally a quad bike that has had the back sawn off and a tipper welded on. The chain drive is about a mile long...