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Fair better for stock the extensive lambing system than so useless wannabe farmer (the kind that frequents Facebook) ripping out every lamb because they don’t know what there doing. We lamb very very few sheep even inside, I bet we didn’t have our hands in more than 20 ewes out of 1250.

I’m on lambing 250 ewes of my own (hasn’t gone partially well because of abortions first few days) before work 5-6.30, dinner 12.00-1.00 and after work 7.00-8.30. I haven’t got a vehicle that can drive round them so all on foot but when the suns out it’s a pretty good job. I ring lambs as they...

They would lamb sheep of course.

I wasn’t really criticizing them, there sheep look good (never see any lame or poor doers). I expect 20 years of being shepherded like this there really isn’t anything to do other than pick up the dead. More my point is some systems need one person per 50 and others need one per 2000.

I don’t keen improve the breeding just maybe feed the ewes and look after them a little so they milk.

I’m going to breed half to texel or Suffolk.

When my own go I’m going to make it my hobby to get them better. Problem is for 50 years one one has given a dam about them

5500 ewes a no penning up ewes or pet lambs. You know what the death rate must be like. Make fast genetic improvement though, only the strong live to breed from.

Cotswold need 2 summers really. Suppose no one has ever tried to improve them, wouldn’t matter if it 5 years to get fat if you had a high value wool every year.

Got to have them, they been here since the churches where built.

I don’t think the food is the problem. 🤦‍♀️

Imagine how embarrassing it would be if YouTube thought you where a teenage girl because of you search history, I suppose it could be worse you could tell a load of blokes on the internet about it. 😜

We got our first draw of Cotswold hoggs next week, 4 out of the 60. Been on roots all winter then hopper for the last 6 weeks. Christ they are really are shite, plus none of the mothers have lambed yet and where due 25th March. I don’t have much to do with them (management “shepherd” them) but...

There’s a couple of people lambing 1500-2000 ewes per shepherd, don’t think they do a lot more than winch the dead ewes into a truck as they don’t pull a trailer.

You my neighbour?

2 in day and 1 at night plus me. 1250 ewes.

That’s where the cows where at the weekend.

Yeah. New head shepherd going back to the way they where 10 years ago.

Doubt he would disagree.

You must be the master, I’ve never seen Romney look like yours. Must really like that hill ground. The flock next door is 5500 of them, they did try going shedding but are going back to Romney again now.