diary of a comedy sheep farm

adzy

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Location
Mid Norfolk
Tremors is one of my favourite films 😍

"Can you fly you sucker, can you fly!"

I could quote lots from the film 😊

Probably just as well I've not show you our rest room 🙈😄

Mesolithic not neanderthal man about here 😉 (didn't you listen to what you were told in your interrogation on the lane??)
Oh no, he didn't get the Clarke snr treatment did he? Should have floored it and got out while the going was good.
 

robbie

Member
BASIS
Tremors is one of my favourite films 😍

"Can you fly you sucker, can you fly!"

I could quote lots from the film 😊

Probably just as well I've not show you our rest room 🙈😄

Mesolithic not neanderthal man about here 😉 (didn't you listen to what you were told in your interrogation on the lane??)
Really!!!!!🙄🤦 I thought the tremors films were utter shite, must just be me!!!!

Neanderthal man is about here, I often get called that!!!!
 
coo...y'know you could play a young Bert Gummer....in....'TREMORS....BRECKLAND ORIGINS'....premise...arceologists excavating an old neandertal flint quarry from days of 'pre yore' accidently open a chamber...turns out early man encountered but managed to trap grabloids but as fresh warm air enters the last eggs laid by the trapped creatures hatch😬

scene one...warm early October day ...robbie's opening up a beet headland...the TIM tripping up the rows...the camera pans back as into view the worm trail of the grabloid appears...homing in on the opell wheel vibration...a slightly obese beet haulier watching from his lorry drops a biscuit (that was enroute to his lips).....the grabloid catches and wrecks the harvester...robbie narrowly escapes and survives by disguising himself as a fox using a mask he had in his toolbox.....😳😳....the film goes on...eventually you kill it by either...impaling it with a flat 8 grab...or...getting it to eat a tonne of dried peas and igniting the resultant flatulance🤔
Well that’s moved on rapidly from the planned carry on film 😂. You are clearly wasted in this job, the artieeeest in you is very powerful. Perhaps a directing career is in the offing 😜
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
wednesday

so the housed lambs weighed well (y) ...a month on the new pea/barley ration worked well....i also split the stores up turning some back out and just keeping the heavier in with smaller batches so feed space was adequate.....i mixed the peas/barley 50/50......there was a temptation to go 1/3 peas 2/3 barley but ....assuming peas 22% protein and barley 10% (could be as low as 8%)....an equal mix more/less ensured 15-16% protein.....i've concluded peas an excellent feed not least because they eat them slower so less acidosis risk

had a broken roof tile on holiday let....an unusual corrugated type.....jewsons said a reclaim yard was my only hope....a quick look on ebay and a stroke of luck.....a little reclaim yard nr blakeney(y).....i've stocked up;).....it's strange because the tiles are fine on the south side of the roof but really disintegrating on the north.....must be the cold but normal pantiles don't seem to suffer....the only thing i can think is the extra surface area of the corrugated makes them more frost susceptible:scratchhead:

thursday

hep p'd the ewes and a few ewe lambs.....only had 100 doses so cranked vaccine gun down to 1 .75ml to stretch it.......blimey i miss not having stericaps:rolleyes:

strawbs' nags are chewing thru the hay.....tis useful cash(y).....but really i'm only getting my money back plus tenner a bale ( rent/fert spray)....fil has put the field i have into igl2....the early cut then leave ryegrass to seed for birdies......i've decided to give it up....i think with some better management i can cut my fields in the next village and save most of the rent....they need spraying anyway.....also fil's field is late maturing and can't be doing with it being fraught if weather is bad late june....i'd love to get two of my own arable fields into igl2 if we can ever combine stewardship and sfi:rolleyes:

admiral is slightly poorly....nowt serious ....but had to go to pharmacy twice for various 'bits'

all in all i've not done much in house which is frustrating.....'guerilla warfare':rolleyes:.....then again it goes like that sometimes:)
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
Friday

gotta take 3 tup lambs that have gotten to big for abattoir to mart tomorrow as part of our 'offering'....suffice to say they weren't over keen on being drafted and looked to their 'genetic potential'🙄

counter measures🙄

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robbie

Member
BASIS
As @carbonfibre farmer said why not!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because.

Just because.....

If you met him, you'd understand.

Happened to talk to the local car mechanic today, said to me "oh, I met your father the other day, he's quite a character isn't he!" 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈
To be fair given the amount of lumber in the BBRO trial plots at morley last year if he'd have got there sooner he could have had weeks worth of work with his hoe!!!!
 

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