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    f**k Up Fortnight

    I just said to the boss a few days with the breeze and no rain ….. then it showered 😂
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    We just sorted utter chaos out as the students arrived, left them to hold the fort as we dashed for some more hurdles, iodine and all the other things we should have had ,via a sneaky Greggs Got back to a few more lambs followed by a triple with the first coming backwards with the second...
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    I was reading an old thread about watery mouth , “featuring Bovine” It was shall we say decisive 😂 meanwhile.. the jabbed or drenched lambs are up and bright this morning It’s chaos in here already , as soon as I pen a new ewe/ lamb , another appears
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    We were reading about using live yoghurt 👍
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    One of the vet students tried to say we should tube it, no I said it’s cold and watery , heat lamp first , she is good and keen but google isn’t always the answer, every little thing she googles , I think she must have found an American small holders site that said tube it I tried to be polite...
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    Same , absolutely soul destroying
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    My son was here today so I sent him off to one of the sheds with one of the students, to grab a buggy full of small bales and a look over the moor ewes, fortunately I said leave the buggy on the track and walk round the sheep, even on the top fields he said it was saturated, while they did that...
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    Used to have spectam but only used sparingly, do you treat all of them ?
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    Gave one 1 ml of betamox and another 1/2 ml alamycin down the throat 🤔 Just from reading various threads
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    In the absence of spectam, what’s the option for watery mouth ? lost one this morning and ones not well tonight, both big lambs , both had passed the yellow colostrum poo
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    New limits to SFI.

    I see what you mean, it’s a complicated hodgepodge for sure. Bps is decisive, sfi more so to a hill farmer. Rightly or wrongly, I feel that our efforts in using little if any herbicides, zero ( so far) artificial fert, working on upland grass is being dropped, while arable can claim big bucks...
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    We had a really slow start , put 10 ewes and lambs out in sunshine the other day, yesterday was manic, pens all but full now Seems never ending this rain
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    f**k Up Fortnight

    Slushy snow yesterday and rain overnight, cold wind as well Running out of lambing pen space
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    New limits to SFI.

    We were / are similar, sda and moor , £151 hectare for the sda in mid tier That’s ok by me IF it was a level playing field, not £700 or whatever for bird seed
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    f**k Up Fortnight

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