Ram missing from market

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Dumfries, Lockerbie, Castle Douglas, Carlisle... you will not get out/loaded without someone checking you and taking the pass slip.

Ram sales at Castle Douglas, the pass is handed to the buyer at the fall of the hammer.
 

Still Farming

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South Wales UK
Always mark or stand by or collect straight away.
I had it once around here .
Pen of Texel Rams all marked or show/sale tags ,stamps etc.
Anyhow bought one and went home to get box

Yes Texel ram still there but crapper one than bought ?

Auctioneers said look into it and are you still wanting it and gave me a discount?
Turned out good Ram after but funny old nonsence goes on !
 

penntor

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw devon
No news yet, got to speak to the auctioneer tomorrow. A couple of people have suggested a name of some one who bought a lot of rams that day and might have picked mine up by mistake, will ask about it tomorrow when I speak to the auctioneer.
 

egbert

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Livestock Farmer
Forgive me for taking up the space Penntor -(hope your tup turns up), here’s a tale for you........

Someone very dear to me was, late one night a long long time ago, trundling up the M4 in his wooden bodied cattle wagon. He’d loaded away from an auction of ponies, gathered off the hills around and about a little market town locally, headed for distant buyers premises. Overcome with tiredness, he pulled into a service station, parked up, and resting his head agin his rolled up coat, thought he’d get a brief shuteye. I daresay a ‘logbook’ break was overdue.

This brief shuteye was rudely away by a loud thumping on the door, as 2 traffic cops demanded he got out, and came quietly for horse thieving. They’d received notice that someone had purloined a very expensive thoroughbred away from a nearby sale (Reading?) which was coloured brown, and had a market sticker on its rump, number 27 (or whatever). They’d peered in the back of this felons truck with a torch, and there it was, market sticker and all! They’d got him.

Not at his best awoken from his shuteye, this man tried to explain that there is a world of difference twixt a 10,000 guinea racehorse, and this 3’ high hairy little moorland urchin. But the cops were adamant…look, even the number matched. You crafty felons will think up any excuse! He’d stolen lord So and So’s finest horseflesh, and he’d been caught, bang to rights.

I forget the detail of the following exchange, and how high up Berkshires finest it went, but eventually, the villain of the piece convinced a more senior officer to phone one of the principals of the Auction firm named on the label, and ask them for some clarification. Hence, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was awoken at a wholly unreasonable hour- after a long and trying day shifting 378 ponies of very moderate value-to confirm that this dreadful and unlikely man should indeed be in possession of pony number 27.
I was told the reply was pretty, er, curt.

The hero of the piece was subsequently quietly told to be on his way.
 

Longlowdog

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
If marts took the time to keep the Lot Boards updated there would be no excuse. Instead, they rattle through sheep that mean a lot to the vendors in no time at all. At Thainstone the boards weren't operating last week during the tup sale.
At our premier sale numbers have to be painted on. The Carlisle staff check every sheep leaving. Regrettably trusting folk at smaller sales gives some folk the chance of a 'free upgrade'.
 

Willie adie

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
If marts took the time to keep the Lot Boards updated there would be no excuse. Instead, they rattle through sheep that mean a lot to the vendors in no time at all. At Thainstone the boards weren't operating last week during the tup sale.
At our premier sale numbers have to be painted on. The Carlisle staff check every sheep leaving. Regrettably trusting folk at smaller sales gives some folk the chance of a 'free upgrade'.

that's all well and good but if you end up with some of the numpties that thainstone can boast of having. then you will still get mistakes.
the ones i put away wrong were down to me being a useless c*** that day totally my fault . but i will tell you what since then ive not put one away wrong since
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
If marts took the time to keep the Lot Boards updated there would be no excuse. Instead, they rattle through sheep that mean a lot to the vendors in no time at all. At Thainstone the boards weren't operating last week during the tup sale.
At our premier sale numbers have to be painted on. The Carlisle staff check every sheep leaving. Regrettably trusting folk at smaller sales gives some folk the chance of a 'free upgrade'.

H&H staff are bloody good. They'll not miss a single lot leaving the mart at either Carlisle or Lockerbie
 

johnb5555

Member
Location
Co Durham
I was told that one of the reasons the tup taxis started getting used at builth was because too many people were taking the wrong rams home and a lot of pee'd off farmers were having to take home poorer rams than they bought (n)

Have tup taxis at Kelso though what I've bought has never been checked.
 
A friend got offered a job setting up a new livestock enterprise. His first job was to go with the estate manager to Builth to buy tups and when they were nearly home he got a phone call that they had the wrong ones. He had to drive all the way back from Newbury to Builth and swap for the correct ones. A long day!!
 

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