Yes and when you get a Christmas card from him and it says "look forward to seeing you in the new year "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
I totally agree having just had an IBR outbreak in the cattle sheds I said just about the same thing it could of been covid in the house
I’m having a horrendous caving vet here last three cows three dead calves and a dead cow , caused by some bacteria in silage apparently, also a section that went great but got the bill , thick end of 400 quid , at the stage I’m scared to check them but as you say it’s not in the house .
My dad was having a bad lambing one year and took a whole load to the kennels, there was a bloke in there who claimed that he had 1800 ewes and was dropping his first ewe off from 18 months.I’ve a pall has a lot of sheep never looses any never has dead lambs never looses a ewe never has the knacker man , it would be depressing if it were true
That’s the type of people they are, it’s old fashioned attitude outdated and bloody awfull because as you say it dose have a detrimental affect on others , you just have to remember they are liers and have issues themselves I just laugh at them they need help they really do , if their is live stock their is dead stock.
problem with the mule is the Leicester open fleece , texel (beltex) and charollais has dishley leicester in the background , somewhere (usually the bigger framed ones ) , a higher proportion of the kent blood in texels and southdown in charollais (the smaller sorts ) will make them hardier ,
Me and next door where disusing the cost of knacker man the other day, It turns out I pay half of what he does, discount for be a good customer I guess!Yes and when you get a Christmas card from him and it says "look forward to seeing you in the new year "
That's not so good.anything you can do to stop it?
Stop feeding it , which they have it’s my herefords outside but they away top of the hill. It eating silage now so hopefully
weirdly enough Angus are eating same stuff and doing ok .
We had a smallholder come and spend a day in lambing shed for some experience. Outside shed lay a small pile of dead lambs ( lambing circa 600 at time). He spent the day obsessed with the losses, I explained that lambing was going very well, the weather had been kind and this year our losses were relatively low however anyone lambing sheep could expect to loose between 10 and 15% by the time they were settled in field at turnout.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
Have heard it said that sheep always die back to the level a farm can carry.
There is never a truer word spoken...you roughly always end up with the same amount
Theres always clever tossers like that. Henry brewis had a poem about them i always remember the last line 'and i hate the ground he walks on the clever little sod'
Can only get better, we have all been there.
Chuffin mastitis my biggest problem this year with the Texels, had a few in Mules too, but texels hellish with it.
We've had a few this week, it's not really surprising when they're lying on frosty ground overnight
