Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

Macsky

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
They? It's one chap that's been arrested for stealing the poor tourist couple's camera, is it not?
2nd fb post reads like it was a couple. From what I’ve heard, Barra being a rather small place, it didn’t take the natives long to figure out who it may have been and where they had been staying. Not entirely sure how the arrest was made in Barra though 🤔
 

Optimus

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North of Perth
I have had it happen when we had pedigree lleyns. 200+ welsh lambs instead of the lleyns we should have had. The 1200guinea ram I bought to serve those shearlings only served 20odd ewes. Little sh!t thing was running around serving my ewes and the neighbours so we both missed it.
Neighbours Insurance sorted it. Well as best as they could. I gave the lamb back though.
It's when you've been keeping someone else's stock an you know if you give it back.there not going to give anything for it that annoys me.especially when you've had it in the fank a few times.an they've never bothered to pick them up
 

hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
It's when you've been keeping someone else's stock an you know if you give it back.there not going to give anything for it that annoys me.especially when you've had it in the fank a few times.an they've never bothered to pick them up
It is annoying isn't it. There's usually some give and take though I have neighbours stuff here sometimes and sometimes they have mine through. Does seem to be their stuff with me more than the other way around but there we go. One place I'm sure things do go occasionally and they never come back though that annoys me but i can't prove anything.... I always put their stuff back they won't come and get them.
Try and keep rams and bulls away from each other even if it's only to save hastle for ourselves going to get them.
Good fences make good neighbours.
 

Anymulewilldo

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
It is annoying isn't it. There's usually some give and take though I have neighbours stuff here sometimes and sometimes they have mine through. Does seem to be their stuff with me more than the other way around but there we go. One place I'm sure things do go occasionally and they never come back though that annoys me but i can't prove anything.... I always put their stuff back they won't come and get them.
Try and keep rams and bulls away from each other even if it's only to save hastle for ourselves going to get them.
Good fences make good neighbours.
Thankfully one one man around here who was good at taking sheep that weren’t his has met karma head on. Most of our problems come when we’re out on winter keep. In fact it’s pretty much all of that kind of issue that happens out on keep. Get the odd sheep dumped around home but not too bad.

Grandad used to know a man in @livestock 1 ’s part of the world who was well known for taking the rifle to a neighbours tup if he didn’t like it and it strayed onto his part of the moor. Long while ago now.
 
I had a lim x blue bull years ago big sharp sort of a thing it jumped the fence into a neighbours more than once and bulled some of his cows. On another couple of occasions it happened the other way around and some of his cows broke in amongst ours and the bull caught some that way. I offered to have them injected and I would pay for it he said he wasn’t bothered but did bend my ear about it at the time. I thought about this situation and although it didn’t happen again I sent the bull in to chop to save any bother. After he calved some of these cows and had a look at the calves he rang and asked if he could have a lend of this bull I told him it was gone he said I should have kept it !
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Hope @Estate fencing. got all his tags read before it got dark 🥺
It actually wasn’t to bad, I just read the last 3 numbers off the tags and they ticked them off the list. I’m dialectic though so do muddle up numbers sometimes. 🙈. Found all 8 though and they still had the 300 I sold them and they look tremendous, I wish the mules we have bought could have been that good this autumn.
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
I have had it happen when we had pedigree lleyns. 200+ welsh lambs instead of the lleyns we should have had. The 1200guinea ram I bought to serve those shearlings only served 20odd ewes. Little sh!t thing was running around serving my ewes and the neighbours so we both missed it.
Neighbours Insurance sorted it. Well as best as they could. I gave the lamb back though.
Someone I know in mid wales had a pedigree Suffolk flock years ago, neighbours welsh mountain ram jumped in a few days before he put his Suffolk ram in, they know it was under 16 hours, 120 lambs born come February. Big payout with insurance!
 

Lemon curd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire dales
I found a wallet once over £200 full cards the lot , ttacked owner and gave back not as much as a thanks .
When I was 6 , I found a £1 note and handed it in to the police and they sent me this letter
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hendrebc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Someone I know in mid wales had a pedigree Suffolk flock years ago, neighbours welsh mountain ram jumped in a few days before he put his Suffolk ram in, they know it was under 16 hours, 120 lambs born come February. Big payout with insurance!
Welsh mountains can't half do some damage can they. There are some Welsh ewes that come on tack next door and a ram came from there into a little bunch of 30odd cull ewes i had trying to put some meat on them feeding them in a trough because it was nealry December. he can't have been there an hour even because i came back to move them having seen him by the fence trying to get in and there were 12 very well raddled ewes when I got back there. At least it was easy to pick them out they were all covered in yellow 😂
 

spark_28

Member
Location
Western isles
2nd fb post reads like it was a couple. From what I’ve heard, Barra being a rather small place, it didn’t take the natives long to figure out who it may have been and where they had been staying. Not entirely sure how the arrest was made in Barra though 🤔

Na the arrest deffo wasn't made in Barra.

Timeline goes like this

People post on FB about missing Camera ( Cost 3K apparently and was a big thing). Not a tiny wee Nikon that could fall out your pocket.

Couple weeks later the police get a memory card sent in the post and the letter about them finding it and it being good karma which paid for their holiday.......however

The owners go back and look at the photos and find one they never took. The idiots have taken a photo from inside someones garden. Being Barra and it being small most of us immediately know where this photo has been taken from and the ladies house. Said lady comes onto the Facebook page to say it was her garden and she would be contacting the police!

It wasn't the owner of the house but people I assume that were either staying there or visiting her.

Arrest followed soon after.

Sheer sheer stupidity
 

spark_28

Member
Location
Western isles
It's not tagged and doesn't look ear notched.

Imagine something like that getting into your very expensive performance recorded easycare ewes you're aiming to breed rams out of.

Edit: I was under the impression it was dumped with no known owner. If I knew who owned it they'd obviously get it back. Along with an invoice for the damage done.

Reality is it technically has no owner as it's neither been tagged or sheared. I know who it most likely belongs to though but I have my fears it will return back to the hill. The damage has been done this year as far as I'm concerned but in future if I take lambs off the hill and they are entire I will be ringing them myself
 

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