f**k Up Fortnight

steveR · Mar 30, 2023

Aspiring Peasants said:
Only a minor f***k up in the grand scheme of things but I'm blaming it on lambing fatigue. I don't normally take sugar in tea but over lambing I often do and I'm the only one. Made a pot of tea and put a spoonful of sugar in my mug, went to pour tea out and the sugar wasn't there. Poured tea out and it's nice and sweet, I'd put the sugar in the teapot

Commendable efficiency I'd say, miss out a separate operation in the tea drinking process....

Kingcustard · Mar 30, 2023

Kingcustard said:
It's the little gains that keep you going, this ewe has hung about for 3 days with stinking discharge and no signs of lambing. Dosed with PenStep and left til this morning when I decided to catch her again.

First lamb out was weak and thought it was dead, second was ok, third was a mummified thing.

Penned her up and left her to rear one hopefully.

Back after an hour and the weak lamb just lying panting, came back just now to tube it with milk and it's up and sooked.

Time for a celebratory hit of some golf ballsView attachment 1102511

I had to drive her 3 miles to a patch of rushes so people don't think I am lambing in Fife, the Garden of Scotland haha

puppet · Mar 30, 2023

Kingcustard said:
Does any own run different breeds of tups at the same time. We used to and would sometimes get a ewe with a Suffolk lamb and a texel lamb. I used to just look at her , shake my head and call her a a dirty slag haha.

It's called superfecundity in nice households.

Northeastfarmer · Mar 30, 2023

Aspiring Peasants said:
Not really a f***k up, but has anybody found that ewes are lambing earlier than they should? Ours that are supposed to start on Saturday have been lambing away steadily all week. Nothing wrong with lambs and I’ve double checked dates
I’ve heard a few others saying the same

Yes!! A week early here too! Caught me by surprise and 4 lambed through the night and lost the lambs off them cos it was a bad night
They’ve been lambing since then and now housed them

Nithsdale · Mar 30, 2023

Count up tonight there's 1 triplet, 12 singles and about 25 twins left to lamb in the flock which started 18 days ago

The ewe hoggs should have started but don't look in any rush. But out of 60 only 35 will are in lamb

so they're hardly going to stress things

After the rain, to hell with fvck up fortnight..
Thank fvck it's almost over!!

BAF · Mar 30, 2023

makes it worthwhile when you get a spare minute to actually enjoy the product of all your hair pulling, stressed, no sleep, wet, cold nights! The ewe is a 2yr old cade lamb Improved Welsh X Abertex and the lamb is by a Millenium Bleu. She's a proper pest but this is her 2nd lamb and she does them well. I'd have to look but I think he's 4 weeks old....I'll probably find him dead tomorrow

Nithsdale · Mar 30, 2023

BAF said:
View attachment 1102628makes it worthwhile when you get a spare minute to actually enjoy the product of all your hair pulling, stressed, no sleep, wet, cold nights! The ewe is a 2yr old cade lamb Improved Welsh X Abertex and the lamb is by a Millenium Bleu. She's a proper pest but this is her 2nd lamb and she does them well. I'd have to look but I think he's 4 weeks old....I'll probably find him dead tomorrow

I'd take 1000 like that, over the ugly whure photobombing

BAF · Mar 30, 2023

Nithsdale Farmer said:
I'd take 1000 like that, over the ugly whure photobombing

Slowly bringing the wife round to the same way of thinking! The big fluffy barstewards are hers although i have to look after them and pay for them

They have their own....qualities...but they are f**king hairy barstewards!

3/4 of those are Welsh X Millenium Bleu.

That's a Char X Millenium Bleu, a Welsh X Millenium Bleu and another at the feeder and the one in the background is out of a Char ewe by a Char X Southdown mongrel tup lamb. He doesn't look huge but he's as wide as he is tall.

Kingcustard · Mar 31, 2023

Well that had been one of the most testing days of my lambing life.

Old ewe that lambed nice big triplets now has 1 as 2 didn't sook, I thought they had in the dark last night.

2 ewes stuck through the night but got lambs out, they are not looking like living.

2 pairs now singles as they didn't lick their noses in time and both have huge bags of milk but totally uncatchable without mismothering the whole hill.

A set of triplets from the bought in ewes and she has no udder at all.

Ewe has had 2 lambs of her own and she has picked up 2 others on her travels, she can sort that out herself.

Then the BBC weather's light rain and gentle breeze turned into 4 hours of driving rain and strong winds.

Spent the afternoon running ewes into the shed with chilled new born lambs and trying to find heat lamps.

If our doctors were as inaccurate as our weather forecasters there wouldn't be many people alive today

As I said in a previous post, don't lamb when I lamb because you can guarantee shitty weather if you do.

Back to the shed and see what is alive under the heat lamps.

The joys of being a sheep farmer, should have stuck at the Medical Repping

Nithsdale · Mar 31, 2023

Kingcustard said:
Well that had been one of the most testing days of my lambing life.

Old ewe that lambed nice big triplets now has 1 as 2 didn't sook, I thought they had in the dark last night.

2 ewes stuck through the night but got lambs out, they are not looking like living.

2 pairs now singles as they didn't lick their noses in time and both have huge bags of milk but totally uncatchable without mismothering the whole hill.

A set of triplets from the bought in ewes and she has no udder at all.

Ewe has had 2 lambs of her own and she has picked up 2 others on her travels, she can sort that out herself.

Then the BBC weather's light rain and gentle breeze turned into 4 hours of driving rain and strong winds.

Spent the afternoon running ewes into the shed with chilled new born lambs and trying to find heat lamps.

If our doctors were as inaccurate as our weather forecasters there wouldn't be many people alive today

As I said in a previous post, don't lamb when I lamb because you can guarantee shitty weather if you do.

Back to the shed and see what is alive under the heat lamps.

The joys of being a sheep farmer, should have stuck at the Medical Repping

That's just an average day to someone with Mules

copse · Mar 31, 2023

Kingcustard said:
Well that had been one of the most testing days of my lambing life.

Old ewe that lambed nice big triplets now has 1 as 2 didn't sook, I thought they had in the dark last night.

2 ewes stuck through the night but got lambs out, they are not looking like living.

2 pairs now singles as they didn't lick their noses in time and both have huge bags of milk but totally uncatchable without mismothering the whole hill.

A set of triplets from the bought in ewes and she has no udder at all.

Ewe has had 2 lambs of her own and she has picked up 2 others on her travels, she can sort that out herself.

Then the BBC weather's light rain and gentle breeze turned into 4 hours of driving rain and strong winds.

Spent the afternoon running ewes into the shed with chilled new born lambs and trying to find heat lamps.

If our doctors were as inaccurate as our weather forecasters there wouldn't be many people alive today

As I said in a previous post, don't lamb when I lamb because you can guarantee shitty weather if you do.

Back to the shed and see what is alive under the heat lamps.

The joys of being a sheep farmer, should have stuck at the Medical Repping

It’s a rotten job when the weather is against you but get a few good days and quickly forgotten.

AftonShepherd · Mar 31, 2023

Kingcustard said:
Well that had been one of the most testing days of my lambing life.

Old ewe that lambed nice big triplets now has 1 as 2 didn't sook, I thought they had in the dark last night.

2 ewes stuck through the night but got lambs out, they are not looking like living.

2 pairs now singles as they didn't lick their noses in time and both have huge bags of milk but totally uncatchable without mismothering the whole hill.

A set of triplets from the bought in ewes and she has no udder at all.

Ewe has had 2 lambs of her own and she has picked up 2 others on her travels, she can sort that out herself.

Then the BBC weather's light rain and gentle breeze turned into 4 hours of driving rain and strong winds.

Spent the afternoon running ewes into the shed with chilled new born lambs and trying to find heat lamps.

If our doctors were as inaccurate as our weather forecasters there wouldn't be many people alive today

As I said in a previous post, don't lamb when I lamb because you can guarantee shitty weather if you do.

Back to the shed and see what is alive under the heat lamps.

The joys of being a sheep farmer, should have stuck at the Medical Repping

Ouch!

And there's me moaning because I've got an old ewe with a hungry pair. Born yesterday morning and been full and happy up until a couple of hours ago. She must have lambed with a big bag of milk but not made any more since - she's damned near as dry as a whistle!

Nithsdale · Mar 31, 2023

I'm just pee'd off lambing is practically finished - 35-40 left to lamb they've abruptly stopped as of yesterday afternoon after still hammering on 20 a day upto then...

The weather's broke, settled down and it's absolutely lovely here now. WTF didn't it do this 3 weeks ago

Jonp · Mar 31, 2023

Nithsdale Farmer said:
That's just an average day to someone with Mules

I must have well above average mules

Kingcustard · Mar 31, 2023

One thing for certain, the shed will be getting used next year for anything lambed before mid April, or at least set up and ready to run the ewes in.

Not sure if you lose more inside or out when you actually count it up, but at least ewes don't lie stuck for 9 hours and the weather doesn't totally f**k your day up.

And the break for the grass when ewes are in cannot be underestimated.

Tomorrow is meant to be sunny..... I will look out my wetsuit!!

steveR · Mar 31, 2023

It's getting the bloody things to come in

Kingcustard said:
One thing for certain, the shed will be getting used next year for anything lambed before mid April, or at least set up and ready to run the ewes in.

Not sure if you lose more inside or out when you actually count it up, but at least ewes don't lie stuck for 9 hours and the weather doesn't totally f**k your day up.

And the break for the grass when ewes are in cannot be underestimated.

Tomorrow is meant to be sunny..... I will look out my wetsuit!!

It's getting the bloody things to come in we find is the PITA....

Or rather the expectants are lying-in when I look on the camera, those lambing are off down the field. T'other night was a worry when it was pissing down at 1am, so up at first light... sensible Ladies kept their legs shut overnight, but it won't last...

Cows are just so much more sensible!! As Herself keeps reminding me, along with the daily mantra she recites on numerous occasions, "I hate f*%king sheep!"

And these are teh EC ewes....

yellowbelly · Mar 31, 2023

Kingcustard said:
As I said in a previous post, don't lamb when I lamb because you can guarantee shitty weather if you do.

As a service to the rest of the TFF sheep community, we would all appreciate it if you would publish your tupping dates in good time next back end.

We can all then rearrange ours so as not to coincide with sh!t weather at lambing.

TIA

Aspiring Peasants · Mar 31, 2023

Nithsdale Farmer said:
That's just an average day to someone with Mules

They must be strange mules

Nithsdale · Mar 31, 2023

Aspiring Peasants said:
They must be strange mules

Scotch Mules, they're fvcking sh!t.

Life is a lot better since I got away from them

Herb9 · Mar 31, 2023

Any ideas here. Lambed him at 6 - single, perfect and well mothered. Found this at 9. Eyes, guts, back end not touched. Never had one like it.

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