Recent content by Hill Ground

Also, pedigree Shropshire, probs only gonna have a single anyway, so f**k it, no worries!!!🤭🤭

Don't overly stress about it. One of the questions I like to ask of little lots is who used to shear them. If they have a different shearer every year its probably them that Is the problem. As long as your doing your best it's all you can do, as you rightly say, crack on, learn from it!!

Just need to figure out where your lockable meds cupboard etc will be at home. Otherwise can't see an issue

I think watching a sky do nothing is still better than eurovision though

Bugger. That's where we are. Of all the days to have an early night!!

How far south did they get then?

Maybe!!🤷‍♂ It's all quite new stuff, what's your understanding of how it works?

The Chap I spoke to told me the way it worked was as follows: . To ecology survey to establish how much biodiversity is on site .Find company that needs bng credits .Establish hedge or meadow or whatever is decided by them is most relevant in your area .Give them 30 year fbt so they can garentee...

I did a bit of research into it. Didn't fancy giving some freshly formed company a 30 year fbt on the ground that the new hedgerow is on!! Bugger that!!

I get it emptied twice a year. It lives in a gateway away from the yard so it's out the way, but he can only get in there when its hard so normally April and September, either side of winter. The maggots lower the level in the summer, and I let the foxes reduce the carcass size in the winter...

@livestock 1 As requested some time ago, my dead bin bill landed this morning. £225 inc vat for 1200L Bin. Bet that looks dear to you northern boys

Been shearing and crutching this week, found a few maggots on every farm on the dirty ones. Surely it would pay to crovect them? Save you a heap of work maggoting, don't need to hassle the shearers, shear em when ready, no downsides!!

I'd say most of my moaning has been about the wet, not the cold. It was pretty bloody moist round here!!

I hope you've posted that picture on the fb page Id love to go in to these peoples place of work and then start spouting off on public fb pages about what a sh!t job they are doing in a role I know nothing about!!!

Is the blue tongue virus carried by a specific type of midge? Or does one foreign midge blow over, infect an animal, and then the local midges become carriers?