Recent content by Sheepykid

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 but we have 3 young kids, the youngest two are quite severely disabled so they take most of her time and quite rightly their needs come first. It’s doesn’t help...

Yeah my old mules knew all the sheltered spots in the fields. It just so happens to be the same spots that flooded. I’ll be glad to see them walk up the lorry tailboard in June! I’ll have forgotten all about it by time next autumn comes though. Or that’s what the misses tells me.

You’re not the only one. My old mules are doing their best to thin out their crop of lambs. Depressing is an understatement.

I take it you bought old ewes to lamb? If so we do that most years with varying degrees of success. This year the weather has hammered the hell out of the ewes and lambs. But I reckon you’re better to see them right through. Kill the ewes after the lambs are 8/10 weeks old that’ll free up some...

Well I didn’t like to throw stones because I’m sure if I held up a video camera and took you all around my day to day antics there’d be room for improvement. But it would make me a bit nervous having so much weather damaged crop (not really his fault) and all those wages to pay. On top of the...

I admire his drive and ambition. But to owe an extra £200k in interest with the rise we have had in the last 12 months. It sort of means you have variable rate debt of circa 7/8 million. As most of your tractor hp and cars etc will be on fixed rates. So that’s likely on top of that. Take a bit...

I’ll admit I have little understanding of running a profitable dairy. But unfortunately I have a reasonable idea of farming through a period of hardship. Reading between the lines you think if you were to sell up now you’d be £50k short of squaring everything up. Assuming you started with some...

If that’s the one I think our vets used to have to get an import license to bring it in. I used it a few years ago when we reared a lot of calves. They had quite a severe reaction to the vaccine. From memory 48 hours of 40degrees plus temps. I stopped using it as I felt i wasn’t gaining...

Whichever you fancy.

Yeah. I should have said it was a joke. I was on another thread the other day where it was intimidated a starting wage was £50k a year. Plus a mountain of benefits. I’d agree £15 seems very fair.

Shall I be the first to say £25per hour plus a house plus a company car plus a healthy pension scheme. Any less and you should be ashamed of yourself or give up trading or both.

We use red top. With ewe-go as a drench at same time. I’ll see if I can find a link to it. We get it from our vet practise, they’re part of CVS. It seems to work quite well together.

I agree about being able to draw a sensible wage yourself. But what i was getting at is can any farm business be that a dairy farm or any other type pay the owner £50k+ a year and all employees that amount as well. I just think the advice of pay someone £1k a week and give them a house on top is...

I am the only one who thinks £1k in wages a week in farming is a bit unachievable. Even on a dairy farm. Even for you guys that say you produce milk for tuppence a litre. Several farmers I know locally that employ lots of people and none of them would be anywhere near that! I admit it’s a great...

That’s fairly similar to what Sedgemoor would have done. I sold two weeks ago and AA steers around 480kg was £1355. So about £2.82/kg. I know people take the pee out of @gone up the hill for saying the market yo-yos a lot but I think it does we sell lots through there and the following week you...