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She'll go round again if he did!!

Is a hirsel not a collective term for several hefts?

Wasn’t at Thirsk on Thursday but but looking on LAA site they look to be about £18 back on the week. Couple of lads have said £20 back. It was an extreme trade the week before mind.

They are the work of the devil, yet some people rave about them. My solution to the problem was to buy a Graham Edwards.😁

That’s a result in my opinion.👍

Use your other/spare hand.

He maybe uses the buckets as a culling tool, if he sees a Shetland using one it's number is up!

Too much of a shock to the system then , they'd have been expecting it all to have been sunshine and birdsong on turnout!!

No, get the feet, put strings on and shove them back. With feet out of the way can usually draw the head one way or another then the feet follow on the end of the strings.

Got plenty so if it gets used it just gets replaced with a “new” piece.😁

My lambing kit consists of arm length gloves, bottle of lube, length of conventional baler band and a very sharp knife. It’s been that way for 30 years and not likely to change. Pretty much all you need.

Local chap blew his finger off with a bolt gun not so long ago. Dispatching a pig and it moved just at the wrong time. He would have known what he was doing, just got unlucky. That puts having a bad day into perspective.

What were your problems last year with your late April ones? You know it's bad when you have one out of every 3 lambs dead, one flat out and the other up on its feet but not suckled.

I reckon the bloody thing will have had £70 of nuts over its throat and £20 of draxxin and metacam and probably a whole can of cyclospray to itself.

Got one to £250 last week. It was 75kgs though. It had a few feet issues over the winter, the last 7 months actually but all that time has been scoffing nuts and getting bigger and fatter. Did consider keeping it until the end of May and see if I could get it to 100kgs and crack the £300 barrier...

Have a word with Ron Finney.

Ewes have had a sh!t winter, especially from mid January when they were getting heavier in lamb. It’s all caught up with a few of them now.

Balluskie, Barrhill, South Ayrshire.

2 ducks swimming in wheel ruts in one field this afternoon. They are spoilt for choice at the moment.

1986 was bad, lambing outside in Cumbria that year. Another bad one early 90s, up in Ayrshire then lambing blackies. Had a fortnight of rain, hail, sleet and snow with occasional bursts of sunshine.Went thru 3 changes of clothes somedays and several sets of waterproofs. Dogs sh!t up all the...