Best wishes to all our sheep meat customers (that pay).......

[yellowbelly]

Well, they're at it again....

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=537865558527068&id=100069108854380&set=a.242461268067500

Not ours this time but belong to the daughter of a friend who farms 3 villages away.
The comments that the Police Facebook page got are quite interesting...

I wonder if Plod ever follow up these comments? Somehow I doubt it.
The area mentioned in both those comments about ' whole sheep barbecues' are where a lot of our stolen sheep ended up.

 

[BAF]

If you manage to apprehend anyone this spring/summer you need to be careful they don't trip and fall. Fields in the dark can be very dangerous. Maybe have a different pair of boots with different tread/laces in the truck to change into in case they end up with boot marks on their person?
Wouldn't it be sad also if some bits of rail with 6inch nails had been left in the grass on the outside of your fence from where you've redone your fencing? Apparently alcathene with nails through it can be quite problematic as well.
I think if I caught someone in the sheep I'd be tempted to stick a knife in their tyres or remove the valves off before I tried to make my presence known.

 

[JockCroft]

If you manage to apprehend anyone this spring/summer you need to be careful they don't trip and fall. Fields in the dark can be very dangerous. Maybe have a different pair of boots with different tread/laces in the truck to change into in case they end up with boot marks on their person?
Wouldn't it be sad also if some bits of rail with 6inch nails had been left in the grass on the outside of your fence from where you've redone your fencing? Apparently alcathene with nails through it can be quite problematic as well.
I think if I caught someone in the sheep I'd be tempted to stick a knife in their tyres or remove the valves off before I tried to make my presence known.

Something sharp through the radiator, or fuel tank. If the later then when they drive off, light it up (hopefully petrol).

 

[som farmer]

chap near here had a good go at a towrag.

couple mornings later, every tyre from combine cars trailers and tractors, slashed. few years ago now

 

[MRT]

chap near here had a good go at a towrag.

couple mornings later, every tyre from combine cars trailers and tractors, slashed. few years ago now

Probably didn't do it again though.

 

[BAF]

 

[TelesnaAg]

Reality is this sort of activity is going to increase, and im thankful im far enough away from Melbourne that hopefullt doesnt become an issue.

Think about it, food prices rising, cost of living soaring, wages growth doesnt match and most people bemoan work.

Farmers are portrayed in the media as climate wreckers most of the time, the stupid general public thinks the farmer will never go hungry they have food and land in abundance.

So who do you think is going to be targegted as your govt does its darndest to lower food production, which will ultimately end up in higher prices...

They will all think the same, the farmer wont go broke if i steal 1 sheep or a fre veggies. Im struggling to make ends meet so surely they can help out, they are wrecking my planet as well beciase the bbc said so, the govt said so, all the climate groups say so.

This will be part of the war on farmers, direct thieving that is self justified even prople who have never offended before.

To the immigrants your just a bunch of privilidged rich white old people.

Once again where are farming unuons or bodies in all this....absent.

Ant....

 

[firther]

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and police just turn a blind eye, its same when there having bbqs. all in broad daylight

 

[Lincs Lass]

On telly last week ,an hour of police and nfu videos showing how many sheep ( full gory details) that had been butchered in fields .
Carcase remains dumped in bin bags .
Plod trying to trace the gangs using drones on full moon nights

 

[yellowbelly]

Here we go again.....

It's a long story, so you'll have to bare with me.

Time to pre lambing vaccinate the Herdwicks on the Warren on Thursday.

Now the Warren is 350 acres of 'space out of doors', interspersed with stands of Silver Birch, Scots Pine, sand dunes, gorse, Marram grass and rabbit holes, with just a fence round the outside of the whole lot. Head counts are definitely not freequent occurrence.

Gathered for scanning, lambing, fly control, clipping and weaning. Basically, a lowland 'hill' situation.

Two short on Thursday. Not unknown - there's lots of places to hide. Usually I leave the gathered ewes in a 6 acre bit (fenced off in the north corner) overnight and anything missing is the Warren side of the gate, the next morning.
None turned up Friday morning.

Unbeknown to me, the Fire Brigade had been called out to rescue a dog from an adjacent iron ore mineshaft last weekend. The upshot of this was they'd cut a section of the Warren's boundry fence and not only had they not repaired it but they'd not told us either
Looking round for the 'missing two', I guessed they'd wandered out through the gap.

Spent 4 or 5 hours looking for them on adjacent arable (unfenced) land and woodland.
No sign.
Took a trailer load of thinner ewes home on Friday night.

Left ewes in small field again to see if the other two showed up overnight.
No sign on Saturday morning. Took another trailer load home, leaving 84 in the small field overnight.

Went to pick the dosing race up this morning. I left it like this, yesterday....

It looked like this, this morning..

Counted the ewes (3 times).
Another one missing
The barstewards used my own race to help them get another one

They've lifted it over the fence..

..and carried it along this fresh drilled headland to the road..

No prizes for guessing where the other two went.

They pinned this gate back..

..so I've 'preserved' the evidence for fingerprints and dna...

Mind you, it's p!ssed down with rain all day and, as I've said before, CSI Scunthorpe aren't anywhere near as proficient as CSI Miami.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Thieving scummy barstewards

 

[Bill dog]

Hells teeth @yellowbelly , my heart sinks every time this thread re awakens !
Will you be giving the fire brigade a call to vent your fury?

 

[yellowbelly]

Hells teeth @yellowbelly , my heart sinks every time this thread re awakens !
Will you be giving the fire brigade a call to vent your fury?

Yeah, I've had a 'word' to explain to them that neither our sheep nor the herd of wild ponies can read ...

.."FIRE BRIGADE..Do not cross line'
They didn't even bother to pull the cut wire back across the gap, they just put a bit of incident tape across
As it turns out nothing went out through the gap but it would have been nice of them to let us know.
From their Facebook page, it transpires they cut our fence and the one into the bit that's fencing off a big area where the ground is subsiding into the old iron stone mines, in order to anchor their lifting gear to a pylon on the Warren.

..in order to get somebody's dumb dog out of this hole..

The bloke in charge of the mines at the steelworks is not very chuffed with them either. The gap in their security fence meant there was a danger of the general public wandering in, off the footpath between us and them, and falling down all the rest of the big holes that have been caused by Scunthorpe's answer to the San Andreas fault.

 

[primmiemoo]

Words fail, @yellowbelly

 

[Wolds Beef]

@yellowbelly I reckon if you actually caught some one you could stick them in one of those holes and tell no one.!! Or do people walk on the warren or is it private land.
WB

 

[Cheesehead]

@yellowbelly I reckon if you actually caught some one you could stick them in one of those holes and tell no one.!! Or do people walk on the warren or is it private land.
WB

That makes me think of the Henry Brewis book Night Shift and the ending.

 

[yellowbelly]

@yellowbelly I reckon if you actually caught some one you could stick them in one of those holes and tell no one.!! Or do people walk on the warren or is it private land.
WB

It's private land but is a SSSI so there's public access via the CROW act.
We get a lot of dog walkers (95% of which are 'responsible'), bird watchers, flora and fauna freaks, insect/butterfly hunters, etc.

To be fair, it's a very interesting place with all sorts of interesting nature stuff going on.
Apparently it's the biggest bit of unimproved lowland heathland left in England. It even has it's own Wikipedia page.

There's a geological fault on the north side which means big chunks are falling into the old iron ore mines below. A big chunk, plus some adjacent arable land, is all fenced off for safety reasons. God knows why those idiots were walking that dog in there last weekend

 

[Lincs Lass]

Yeah, I've had a 'word' to explain to them that neither our sheep nor the herd of wild ponies can read ...
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.."FIRE BRIGADE..Do not cross line'
They didn't even bother to pull the cut wire back across the gap, they just put a bit of incident tape across
As it turns out nothing went out through the gap but it would have been nice of them to let us know.
From their Facebook page, it transpires they cut our fence and the one into the bit that's fencing off a big area where the ground is subsiding into the old iron stone mines, in order to anchor their lifting gear to a pylon on the Warren.
View attachment 1169209
..in order to get somebody's dumb dog out of this hole..
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The bloke in charge of the mines at the steelworks is not very chuffed with them either. The gap in their security fence meant there was a danger of the general public wandering in, off the footpath between us and them, and falling down all the rest of the big holes that have been caused by Scunthorpe's answer to the San Andreas fault.

The times I've driven past and seen the signs and wooden fences ,never knew they were there.
I know the whole area is riddled with the old mining tunnels and when.it closed,they left everything behind as it was too big to move .
Some huge doors at the bottom of dragonby pit ,the entrance to the tunnels

 

[yellowbelly]

The times I've driven past and seen the signs and wooden fences ,never knew they were there.
I know the whole area is riddled with the old mining tunnels and when.it closed,they left everything behind as it was too big to move .
Some huge doors at the bottom of dragonby pit ,the entrance to the tunnels

You can still get underground right through to Low Risby as all that lot is still being pumped.
They don't go down the seams that go towards the Warren though now as that geological fault has made it too dangerous.