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[Al R]

arent dexters just Angus’s with bad breeding so not as much growth on them?

I love the weekend chat in this thread, how much leg pulling can we get away with before to many people are offended

 

[Top Tip.]

arent dexters just Angus’s with bad breeding so not as much growth on them?

I reckon those Angus are getting so big and rough they’ll be needing a back cross of dexter to put them right

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey it’s back again

I’ve got a copy saved so if the need arises I can post it quickly... I’m guessing several others of us have too!

 

[Anymulewilldo]

A mate of mine over the back took a big piece of rough moorland a few years ago, not much heather. Lots of rush, whispy grass and the white grass stuff. Only allowed cattle, no sheep. Part of some scheme too reintroduce Heather.
BUT the cattle all had too be native breeds, why I don’t know. Someone was probably drawing a sub on it. So my mate went and bought 30/40 Galloway cows with calves. Went and bought a belting limy bull and started getting some real smart calves off these little Galloway cows.
Guessed the trick?? He bought a black lim bull and told the land agent it was a bloody good Angus!
He keeps a ruck of his lim x Galloway heifers back now as replacements for his lower ground herd. Reckons they are brilliant but need watching. Bit keen!

 

[Fat Lamb]

I mean I’d be pretty pee'd off too see a cut like in the photo anyways... but too turn it out also without saying anything was just a pee take... every sheep had atleast 1 graze somewhere on it felt a bit embarrassing really until the ewes got some wool cover too them too hide all the grazes...

Those buggers should have been stopped and squared up, maybe even sent packing. Sounds like they were racing and not giving a sh!t.

 

[RMSLLOYD]

I mean I’d be pretty pee'd off too see a cut like in the photo anyways... but too turn it out also without saying anything was just a pee take... every sheep had atleast 1 graze somewhere on it felt a bit embarrassing really until the ewes got some wool cover too them too hide all the grazes...

Awful, lucky to be alive. By the look of how yellow she is she wanted leaving another few weeks though. Grease nowhere near lifted.

 

[neilo]

A mate of mine over the back took a big piece of rough moorland a few years ago, not much heather. Lots of rush, whispy grass and the white grass stuff. Only allowed cattle, no sheep. Part of some scheme too reintroduce Heather.
BUT the cattle all had too be native breeds, why I don’t know. Someone was probably drawing a sub on it. So my mate went and bought 30/40 Galloway cows with calves. Went and bought a belting limy bull and started getting some real smart calves off these little Galloway cows.
Guessed the trick?? He bought a black lim bull and told the land agent it was a bloody good Angus!
He keeps a ruck of his lim x Galloway heifers back now as replacements for his lower ground herd. Reckons they are brilliant but need watching. Bit keen!

Lim x Galloway? Can he run fast...... very fast?

 

[livestock 1]

Lim x Galloway? Can he run fast...... very fast?

As a youngster father had mainly Galloway cows and we put a limmy bull on them
Some of them were sharp they had that look in their eye too

 

[Hilly]

Lim x Galloway? Can he run fast...... very fast?

Aye I bet they a right bundle of joy to work with , Adas tried Frisian x Gall had to stop total killers , I’d imagine Limmy x gall to be no better.

 

[livestock 1]

Does anyone remFrank Grimshaw from Adas ?
What a nice fella

 

[cattleman123]

Lim x Galloway? Can he run fast...... very fast?

God i have 2 of those and one is going when she has reared her calf...Dangerous

 

[Hilly]

Does anyone remFrank Grimshaw from Adas ?
What a nice fella

No can’t remember just remember been at one day at Ridsdale and they had these gall x fri which in theory good cross but they were to aggressive .

 

[SierraLima]

It is usually cheaper if you can get a contractor the day or in around the time you want one but it’s still nice to have some independence when there’s a bit at stake. If you go full tilt relying on contractors for everything then some of them tend to know you have become a captive audience

We are fairly dependant on contractors here. When they turn up with the newest raft of kit to spread muck or plough and drill etc you realise you'd never make it stack up financially if you had to invest in all the kit and all the associated costs and time that go with it. The thing is, make sure you pay the bill as soon as it comes through the post.....

 

[Mc115reed]

Awful, lucky to be alive. By the look of how yellow she is she wanted leaving another few weeks though. Grease nowhere near lifted.

You look always get a handful in a few hundred that are yellow it’s just how it is ... the majority were ready just the odd one that was sticky, iv a few different breeds so short of sheAring twice you’v just got too pick a middle ground... no excuse too hack at the sheep because youv pulled a sticky one out though....

 

[Estate fencing.]

You look always get a handful in a few hundred that are yellow it’s just how it is ... the majority were ready just the odd one that was sticky, iv a few different breeds so short of sheAring twice you’v just got too pick a middle ground... no excuse too hack at the sheep because youv pulled a sticky one out though....

If he didn't want to do the sticky one then should have left that for his mate.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

You look always get a handful in a few hundred that are yellow it’s just how it is ... the majority were ready just the odd one that was sticky, iv a few different breeds so short of sheAring twice you’v just got too pick a middle ground... no excuse too hack at the sheep because youv pulled a sticky one out though....

I’ve never seen one cut that bad! That took effort. A good few years ago, when I was but a little kid we had a team in shearing. I was playing in the wool sacks (grandad always said if the kids were running about in the wool he fit a lot more in each sheet). This lad pulled an old Suffolk ewe, bit greasy, cut her navel and a teet then gave her a beating for wriggling too much. I can see it now, Grandad lept the hurdles, picked this lad up by his shirt and gave him a bloody good hammering while shouting at him. (He was hellish strong back in them days!) Dropped the lad on the floor, told the team too pack up and Feck off before he really lost his temper. I hadn’t seen but seemingly this lad had cut almost every ewe he did. Grandad paid the other 2 for their tally’s but told the other lad he was lucky he wasn’t getting reported.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I’ve never seen one cut that bad! That took effort. A good few years ago, when I was but a little kid we had a team in shearing. I was playing in the wool sacks (grandad always said if the kids were running about in the wool he fit a lot more in each sheet). This lad pulled an old Suffolk ewe, bit greasy, cut her navel and a teet then gave her a beating for wriggling too much. I can see it now, Grandad lept the hurdles, picked this lad up by his shirt and gave him a bloody good hammering while shouting at him. (He was hellish strong back in them days!) Dropped the lad on the floor, told the team too pack up and Feck off before he really lost his temper. I hadn’t seen but seemingly this lad had cut almost every ewe he did. Grandad paid the other 2 for their tally’s but told the other lad he was lucky he wasn’t getting reported.

Never hit another mans sheep or tell his dogs off!
Best bit of advise I was ever given.

 

[RMSLLOYD]

You look always get a handful in a few hundred that are yellow it’s just how it is ... the majority were ready just the odd one that was sticky, iv a few different breeds so short of sheAring twice you’v just got too pick a middle ground... no excuse too hack at the sheep because youv pulled a sticky one out though....

Couldn't agree more. Not condoning what he did at all. As i say its a miracle she survived. Any shearer worth his salt shouldn't have let her go out in that state.

 

[Fat Lamb]

Couldn't agree more. Not condoning what he did at all. As i say its a miracle she survived. Any shearer worth his salt shouldn't have let her go out in that state.

Totally agree with that. Might have been interesting having a look at the combs that were being used also.

 

[JSmith]

Never hit another mans sheep or tell his dogs off!
Best bit of advise I was ever given.

Years ago they reckon dad employed a bloke that as it turned out used to knock his mrs about but couldn’t really be proved, once he shut her out the house with no clothes on, a right twunt anyway!! For one reason or another they couldn’t just get shut of him, anyway, one day the old man heard a commotion an could see this bloke Lamping the sheep dog, he crept up the lane out of sight an came up behind him unseen an grabbed him by the neck an marched him off the place there an then!! The wife stuck to her husband but the dog stayed with my old man!! He wasn’t much of a people person but he loved a good dog