APHA Text

[steveR]

Has everyone had the APHA text message this morning warning us to feed and water our stock in the hot weather.....

Methinks that they are taking the pee a bit!! Good stockmen and women know all this, the crap one's take no notice anyway!!

 

[BAF]

You mean it's hot so they might need a bit of water to drink? And the grass has all burnt off so they might need supplemental feeding? Noooo don't be daft nobody would be already doing that would they?!

 

[Estate fencing.]

I got an email as well, they really must think I’m bad.

 

[topground]

It’s the mindset of the civil service, they know best, how can farmers possibly carry on without their advice and guidance?
Some of them even have arts degrees from Universities you have have never heard of don’t you know!

 

[steveR]

It’s the mindset of the civil service, they know best, how can farmers possibly carry on without their advice and guidance?
Some of them even have arts degrees from Universities you have have never heard of don’t you know!

I would like to pop a smilie, but that probably runs too close to the truth...

 

[steveR]

You mean it's hot so they might need a bit of water to drink? And the grass has all burnt off so they might need supplemental feeding? Noooo don't be daft nobody would be already doing that would they?!

Idiots are probably more worried that the ickle little badgers need water and food to snuffle up!

 

[britt]

I nearly put it on the WTF thread, but their intention is good.
Unfortunately those that need to be told either don't care or aren't on the APHAs RADAR.

 

[steveR]

I have had the email too.... and it has an email address on the bottom

 

[Quaddog]

Just amazing how we’ve managed to survive all these years before they came along!

 

[spin cycle]

OR.....Joe public is so flecking stupid they're used to telling them how to wipe their own bot....that they have to assume we're as daft
...

 

[neilo]

Has everyone had the APHA text message this morning warning us to feed and water our stock in the hot weather.....

Methinks that they are taking the pee a bit!! Good stockmen and women know all this, the crap one's take no notice anyway!!

I might point out that we stockmen in Wales haven't received such a text, and are obviously considered to have more common sense.

That said, I'm off out shortly to get another water trough and some pipe to get water to a field where the stream at the bottom has never dried up, but is pretty damned close now.
In an adjacent field the water source is a 4 acre lake, which has dropped enough that they get bellied in black, stinking silt and sludge getting as far as the water now.

 

[JP1]

Has everyone had the APHA text message this morning warning us to feed and water our stock in the hot weather.....

Methinks that they are taking the pee a bit!! Good stockmen and women know all this, the crap one's take no notice anyway!!

And the email and with a link to their online guidance ..............

 

[JP1]

You mean it's hot so they might need a bit of water to drink? And the grass has all burnt off so they might need supplemental feeding? Noooo don't be daft nobody would be already doing that would they?!

The parallel will be some W ker and a clip board asking why I'm supplementary feeding on Mid Tier grass


Because they'll die otherwise

And Useless already loading the expectations for hose pipe bans (helping privatised water co's that have not built any reservoirs) . If I can't use a hose, I can't fill my bowsers and yes the cattle will die even quicker

 

[Jonp]

The parallel will be some W ker and a clip board asking why I'm supplementary feeding on Mid Tier grass


Because they'll die otherwise

And Useless already loading the expectations for hose pipe bans (helping privatised water co's that have not built any reservoirs) . If I can't use a hose, I can't fill my bowsers and yes the cattle will die even quicker

In the same boat....all the sheep and cow drinking water comes from the cottage next door to the farm into IBCs for me to cart around.
My landlord doesn't think I need mains water as the streams never run dry. They ran dry in may.
Sheep are now patrolling the fence along the golf course eyeing the nice watered greens. Expecting a phone call anytime soon from the groundsman...he's got me on speed dial. The sheep have form.

 

[steveR]

I might point out that we stockmen in Wales haven't received such a text, and are obviously considered to have more common sense.

That said, I'm off out shortly to get another water trough and some pipe to get water to a field where the stream at the bottom has never dried up, but is pretty damned close now.
In an adjacent field the water source is a 4 acre lake, which has dropped enough that they get bellied in black, stinking silt and sludge getting as far as the water now.

Just a matter of time before one is stuck then.... and a Rambler sees it and calls the RSPCA...

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I might point out that we stockmen in Wales haven't received such a text, and are obviously considered to have more common sense.

That said, I'm off out shortly to get another water trough and some pipe to get water to a field where the stream at the bottom has never dried up, but is pretty damned close now.
In an adjacent field the water source is a 4 acre lake, which has dropped enough that they get bellied in black, stinking silt and sludge getting as far as the water now.

The text hasn’t hit Cheshire either

 

[steveR]

The text hasn’t hit Cheshire either

Assuming all Cheshire is Footballer WAG territory I guess....

 

[Estate fencing.]

The text hasn’t hit Cheshire either

Even the apha have heard about your “expert” fame and know they can’t teach you anything.

 

[topground]

Light rain here and still no email from a Government agency advising me how I should adapt my systems to cope with reduced dust.
Civil service asleep at the wheel,?

 

[neilo]

Just a matter of time before one is stuck then.... and a Rambler sees it and calls the RSPCA...

My sheep are much more clever than that. They always pick a spot to Wade out and get stuck that is hidden behind some low willow branches. I found one a couple of weeks ago, after having moved that mob away, and only because I heard it baa as I rode back across the field on the quad.
I have been known to Chuck pallets on the mud, far enough out for me to stand on to lasso a ewe’s head with a rope attached to the telehandler’s extend boom.