Recent content by pipkins

I only read up to page 16 so apologies but as someone that has produced on small scale to sell to 'friends and family' to keep things as simple as possible...still not very simple. The main problem is as others have said, it's easy to sell what's in fashion then you could have a freezer full of...

Should say these weren't the specific button tags that you mention, I haven't seen or used them.

I had north Ronaldsay so similar size and eating habuts and used the Allflex bubblegum tags with very little problem. The button tags are clunky and quite big in the ear, ok on pigs and I guess big sheep but they were on some bought in Ronnie's that I had and I had lots of lost tags and damaged...

Smith's Sectional without a doubt, have a good browse on their website but they are open to discussion about tweaking designs to suit too. Paying to have it put together for you is money well spent too if you've got it to spare as they whizz through and are lovely chaps too, they like a decent...

Great news! Hopefully they make a good appointment to the advertised role too, looks very interesting.

The worst cockerel we had was a Welsummer... beautiful boy but tried to get you through the mesh of the run! I've killed two splash Andalusian cockerels for being vicious too (can't risk it with the kids around) but the black one we had was a gent, until he got eaten by a fox. Didn't manage to...

This has popped up in my notifications- just to update on the Longwool 'mule' we got two stonking good ram lambs but the rest are weedy and were dopey as well. Everything else hasambed and performed as normal, all had the same management. All on experienced ewes, lambed indoors. Will give it...

Yes he does- and they are British Lops (very good ones too, I've no axe to grind with them at all). But you can see some in the RBST might think its a good idea to select the focus of a major PR campaign that is going to grab the interest and by extension support of Mr Eustice MP? Cynical, me?

Has nobody noticed it's the uni summer holidays- I don't recall having any modules or assignments that ran from year 1 into year 2. I did my dissertation research over the summer of my thesis year but had to have dispensation for that, even, and only got it as the insect I was interested in was...

Contractor did well to get ours baled and stacked in field dry but uncovered, then been rained on almost every day since. Am I doing the right thing just leaving it as it is to dry? Been lovely here since the ealry hours so hoping I can get a load in safely this evening, rain due again...

As someone who went to school through the 90s I should be 100% metric as that was all we 'should' have been taught in (apart from the odd lesson in conversion) but I still generally operate in imperial. If I ask the kids that I teach how heavy they are they say stones, they talk about height in...

I've just had a dawning realisation- the Lop focus is nothing at all to do with the Eustice connection is it...?

Would that I were still a member...I wish you all the best and hope you get in and pave the way for others to join you. I missed the national show at Three Counties this year but it was telling that one individual linking the RBST and the showground did a substantially better job of marketing...

Ours is being knocked down today or tomorrow, horrible weather yesterday but set to be improving all week. I've walked it today and seems a lot more leafy than last year. It's taken me two years to get rid of the ragwort that the previous occupant used to bale o_O but plenty of cow parsley...

Easy done with the small breeds, I've waited til the 7 days max in the past but now don't bother at all, they'll just go together as a boys' group over winter then back in with the flock at lambing til they're hogget sized. Means I don't have to decide which to keep and sell as a tup when...