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Straw could be expensive this year unless the spring barley goes wild and produces a sh!t ton. You might be as well feeding poor hay instead of silage of straw is too pricey 🤷‍♂️

Some of the horse ones will run on D cell batteries. Whether they give a decent whack I couldn't say. You could get a solar charger and charge the batteries at home in the sunshine and swap them out every few days. Leisure batteries will hold their charge for a good while.

I was surprised as well! Probably helps theyre on a little patch and the lady who owns the ground and has been keeping the water topped up, has 2 little girls who have been taming them with carrots and handfuls of corn so they're not that wild. I did have to run the bigger one into a corner of a...

That's the one! She's at home on the lawn so at least if she does drop dead I won't have to traipse across the field to fetch her.

Took the wife to see the lambs in the sunshine this afternoon so of course there was a ewe dying of mastitis. Hunched up and generally very sick looking. Typically it's a really good hogg that lambed triplets on her own and was rearing a mega set of twins and was a really good attentive mother...

He breeds some very smart sheep. We had a tup off him a few years back, he lasted forever. I've got out of southdowns because selling them live they were being penalised for being so woolly. But if I wanted to get back into them then I'd definitely go back to Jonathan.

I was going to say why not try a southdown of you're inclined to use a Down breed. Jonathan Long who runs the Chaileybrook flock probably breeds the best Southdowns going. They're a world away from the short, knock kneed, little fat traditional creatures. And his tups would have enough about...

Got Yeah I just saw a forecast on the tele just now. Showers tomorrow apparently...blanket rain from about 530 onwards! Obviously seen me walking about in my boots instead of wellies!

Nobody say a word or move a muscle! The s..u..n is shining. Shhh don't frighten it off! Still windy as a windy thing but if you van get out of the wind it's positively tropical this afternoon.

You're from Monty and there's not one scrap of bale string to be seen anywhere in that photo you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself! I bet all your gates swing as well don't they you absolute animal. Plus that obscene amount of grass!

Small bale haylage is where its at @neilo you'll get loads on a lorry 😂 Didn't there used to be a haylage packing place in Worthen, sort of your direction.

I've never failed to castrate a lamb unless I've forgotten to actually apply the band to the testicles. Actually no that's a lie I failed to band 1 who didn't have any external testicles and the smallest scrotum I've ever seen. That just looks like it'll get in the way.

I prefer a pungee pit to a bear/man trap!

Hopefully that keeps lamb prices up for all the poor buggers that have lambed in the last few weeks through this miserable weather!

You can't park there sir 😂

Aren't goats subject to tb testing? I'm sure we got a reminder one year even though we'd sold them. Wouldn't worry about lambs because they're likely going to be killed by the time they're 12 months old. But goats if they're subject to tb testing I would be a little bit wary because tb is a pain...

We had a similar situation on Friday with a navara. But it was a flat field! I did remind him it was wet by the oak tree as we involuntarily parked up. He said we'd fetch it back today because it was a lovely drying weekend He hoped it'd drive out...not today it won't I bet!

Bloody cold, wet and windy here this morning. Yesterday seemed like a very good day! Too many things went very well. Sold a ruck of ewes and lambs for decent money, the weather wasn't bad, the fields were drying, it was a good day. Today its wet and windy and I'm sat in Costa waiting on 4 new...

Round up? Spray it before you plant them and let it die then give it a top up when/if the weeds start coming back.

Well for example I manage a broiler farm. We are high welfare. I work f**king hard to ensure that the birds are happy and healthy and go to market in the best possible shape. These chickens are at most 42 days old. They don't go outside. And in that advert they're vilified. So actually I think...