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Mc115reed

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Well thats a statement...you wont have as many to lose will you...one can only lose them once
You’ll loose 15% scanning too weaning
Minimum and anyone who says different is a lying melon or a full blown idiot who doesn’t count them too make himself feel better... I’m up too 11% and 3 weeks too go until I wean but iv killed some ewes this last 10 days they’re dropping like flies... rang a different knacker man yesterday because it was getting embarrassing 🤦‍♂️
 

muleman

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You’ll loose 15% scanning too weaning
Minimum and anyone who says different is a lying melon or a full blown idiot who doesn’t count them too make himself feel better... I’m up too 11% and 3 weeks too go until I wean but iv killed some ewes this last 10 days they’re dropping like flies... rang a different knacker man yesterday because it was getting embarrassing 🤦‍♂️
You know youve had a bad do when your 30 mile from home and you meet the knacker man ont road an he waves at you🙈😂
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
Lost a lamb this morning looked like pneumonia it was the best lamb in that batch probably one of the best ones on the place Texel x Beltex lamb off a Cheviot x Texel ewe
Backs up your theory
I lost exactly the same type of lamb yesterday. An absolute beauty of of a sheep, never bothers me to much when you can fit 5 in a bag but when you chuck them into the truck and they thump it breaks my heart!
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
You’ll loose 15% scanning too weaning
Minimum and anyone who says different is a lying melon or a full blown idiot who doesn’t count them too make himself feel better... I’m up too 11% and 3 weeks too go until I wean but iv killed some ewes this last 10 days they’re dropping like flies... rang a different knacker man yesterday because it was getting embarrassing 🤦‍♂️
I had so many dead ewes on the yard 2 weeks ago that they sent a whole skip to fill!
Iv got 5 different flocks to shepherd and every year one of them has high looses, one of them I loose nothing and the other 3 are national average, never the same problem twice and at the start of the season you don't know what is going to the good one or bad one.
 
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I lost exactly the same type of lamb yesterday. An absolute beauty of of a sheep, never bothers me to much when you can fit 5 in a bag but when you chuck them into the truck and they thump it breaks my heart!
We use some Beltex/Texel x tups and the lambs and the tups are soft. They get the best lamb I can from a mule but they seem to have the softest traits from both breeds. Pure Texel or pure Beltex is much harder. Even Charolais is tougher
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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