Sharpy's latest activity
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Puppy meets abandoned lamb in the kitchen. -
Just out of the oven at 6am. She was calling to it unborn when we were passing, went back 10 minutes later to see if all was proceeding...
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Home bred dog, been the best dog I have ever had, my best mate in many ways. Here he is taking a snooze after this mornings move. He is...
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I was speaking to the owner last night he removed one of the disks on the plough which he said seemed to have helped slightly. I was...
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Sometimes you just get a run of things. Bought a new Charolais bull in 2017. 5 of his first 10 calves were backwards. Didn’t loose any...
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Sharpy replied to the thread Backwards calves…the bull?.How does the temperature affect calf size?
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I had a bull several years ago that threw massive calves, most of them backwards. As a farm we’ve always fed cows on the generous side...
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We've had 2 c-sections this year and should have had another 2 that I elected to pull and lost/killed the calf in the process. Dams were...
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I agree with that , you can have easy calving and good conformation/weight at sale time. The less intervention in the calving of cows is...
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Maybe I'm a bit sensitive about these big calves and arduous labours having given birth to a large male baby too. BUT, all I can add...
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not exactly like drowned rats are they?
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They look like hellish shapey calves 20% of our cows are bbx they represent 80% of the problems here
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This year I lambed 800 old broken mouth mules outside again in March. What a disaster from start to finish. My wife helps when she can...
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Come and help me with the shedders instead ---just be prepared to spend time drinking coffee and eating donuts ;:giggle:
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Why is it a disgrace? Maybe they just run those increasingly rare sheep that can lamb by themselves.
