A Rant!

[Farmer Roy]

Sorry for the thread highjack. Somehow I couldn't multi quote all the koala responses

To be fair, koalas aren't exactly cheetah like in their speed, fairly easy to outrun . . .
As for being semi stoned on eucalyptus - I think the truth is more like they exist on such a low nutrition diet that they just spend most of their time sleeping & trying to digest the food. They have a HUGE intestine apparently, to cope with the large quantity of fibrous low quality food. Low nutrition diet also equals fairly low intelligence, they not exactly the brightest of creatures - think of them a bit like the marsupial version of a Sloth . . .
I was walking through a stubble field when my dog came across a big male koala moving across the plain from one group of trees to another. A bit of a scuffle ensued, I raced in & grabbed the dog by the collar to pull him away & the koala came after both of us surprisingly fast ( for a few metres anyway ) making a hell of a noise. Looking back it was bloody funny, but at the time, trying to drag a dog behind me, it was a bit exciting
Male koalas are nasty aggressive sh1!s, they bark & grunt like a wild pig, sex is disturbingly similar enough to rape ( including the females response ) to make you feel uncomfortable & ive seen them try & knock babies off mum's back so they can have a go at her

Not really a fan . . .
Having said that, I don't want my dogs killing them either

 

[Exfarmer]

Sorry for the thread highjack. Somehow I couldn't multi quote all the koala responses

To be fair, koalas aren't exactly cheetah like in their speed, fairly easy to outrun . . .
As for being semi stoned on eucalyptus - I think the truth is more like they exist on such a low nutrition diet that they just spend most of their time sleeping & trying to digest the food. They have a HUGE intestine apparently, to cope with the large quantity of fibrous low quality food. Low nutrition diet also equals fairly low intelligence, they not exactly the brightest of creatures - think of them a bit like the marsupial version of a Sloth . . .
I was walking through a stubble field when my dog came across a big male koala moving across the plain from one group of trees to another. A bit of a scuffle ensued, I raced in & grabbed the dog by the collar to pull him away & the koala came after both of us surprisingly fast ( for a few metres anyway ) making a hell of a noise. Looking back it was bloody funny, but at the time, trying to drag a dog behind me, it was a bit exciting
Male koalas are nasty aggressive sh1!s, they bark & grunt like a wild pig, sex is disturbingly similar enough to rape ( including the females response ) to make you feel uncomfortable & ive seen them try & knock babies off mum's back so they can have a go at her

Not really a fan . . .
Having said that, I don't want my dogs killing them either

you missed the most appealing part of the Koala, the high fibre diet means are farting non stop

 

[Farmer Roy]

you missed the most appealing part of the Koala, the high fibre diet means are farting non stop

Koala poo . . .

 

[waterbuffalofarmer]

Looks very similar to rabbit droppings...

 

[Farmer Roy]

Looks very similar to rabbit droppings...

Our rabbits do round ones . . .

 

[Lazy Eric]

That guys buffaloes on TFL look as quiet as mice to me! It's just the program makers trying to make something out of nothing, like the limo bull stuck in the gate. They had all the tense dramatic music in the back ground playing , making out the bull would be dead in next few minutes.. bollox! farming life is quite mundane... tv producers have to spice it up somehow.

 

[Headless chicken]

What I couldn't get over was how they said after being mauled he's taking more safety procortions yet they're splitting cows and calves in an open pen with just a stick feck that!

On the point of aggression I had a milking cow go for me the other day. That was a proper brown pants moment of do I try and fight her or get out. I punched her on the nose a few times whilst backing away and go out asap and used the forcing gate to push her round. She's never been aversive before other than being one to watch at calving.
My point being is this is an animal who has been handled by myself 320 odd days a year morning and night for the past 3 years and shown no issue with me. Things change drastically. @waterbuffalofarmer i suspect the people who dropped out had a fancy of owning an animal such as buffalo without taking into account the potential risks

 

[Danllan]

Koala poo . . .
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This begs the question of whether you took those pics for our benefit, or just have them anyway....

 

[unlacedgecko]

Koala poo . . .
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You need to find some better hand moisturizer, as the kola poos looks like it isn't working.

 

[tinsheet]

The programs edited! We don't see the half of it
Roughly a day's work shown In an hr,
They show probably 15mins per farm!
Certainly not going to knock them cause I like them, am not a perfect farmer!.

 

[Dry Rot]

Journalists and film producers have a motto, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story", as I discovered when I found myself in newsprint saying things I never said! If they don't have a quote, it is quite legitimate in the profession to make up things you would have said if you'd thought about it at the time. That snippet of information came direct from Fleet Street and I didn't make it up.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

A large part of the course when I was "media trained" by the EA was to always repeat the question in your answer making it harder to misquote you and you insist on your terms for appearing (know questions in advance, duration of interview, editorial final say etc). If not they WILL distort you. Live broadcast is, ironically, probably the safest except if they re-use the footage later for something else.

Standards at the BBC have tumbled.

 

[devonbrion1998]

I did comment during the program to the missis just how relaxed the buffalo were
they had some nice trates i think...maybe he should come and tag our calves with the cow in the shed..

 

[landslave the 2nd]

The programs edited! We don't see the half of it
Roughly a day's work shown In an hr,
They show probably 15mins per farm!
Certainly not going to knock them cause I like them, am not a perfect farmer!.

Know what you mean on the filming to actual broadcast minutes....
Had them for 9 hours on farm,what with camara men 3,sound men 3 ,tec men,the director, sub director ect ect .
Then the actual " host of the show and his gang of "groupie yes people " plus the LAD they did the programme about plus bloody local girls screaming for autographs.

Ended up with 9 minutes of airtime but I did have 5 minutes chatting to him on a meal break .He is very different and small in real life...........lets just say

 

[Alicecow]

Know what you mean on the filming to actual broadcast minutes....
Had them for 9 hours on farm,what with camara men 3,sound men 3 ,tec men,the director, sub director ect ect .
Then the actual " host of the show and his gang of "groupie yes people " plus the LAD they did the programme about plus bloody local girls screaming for autographs.

Ended up with 9 minutes of airtime but I did have 5 minutes chatting to him on a meal break .He is very different and small in real life...........lets just say

Sounds intriguing! What programme were they filming?

 

[Darranfarm]

The other side of the coin. Do we not want the general public to see the hard work, long hours, freezing temps and danger??

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

The other side of the coin. Do we not want the general public to see the hard work, long hours, freezing temps and danger??

As a contrast I felt "lambing live" did a reasonable job of showing what you mention.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

A large part of the course when I was "media trained" by the EA was to always repeat the question in your answer making it harder to misquote you and you insist on your terms for appearing (know questions in advance, duration of interview, editorial final say etc). If not they WILL distort you. Live broadcast is, ironically, probably the safest except if they re-use the footage later for something else.

Standards at the BBC have tumbled.

The standard procedure here if you see a journalist and or TV camera is....run like hell in the opposite direction!!!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

The other side of the coin. Do we not want the general public to see the hard work, long hours, freezing temps and danger??

No , thats called "reality", they don't want to see that, thats boring and requires too much effort.

 

[landslave the 2nd]

Sounds intriguing! What programme were they filming?

Depends on your age

Try "Mr Bang Tidy " or SHA...TING