Bl**dy Sheep

[farmer james]

The ultimate sheep;
for the shepherd good looking, and very good figures ( the best for a ram lamb in the flock for 5 years)
For his flock mates, sheep god status, he died just as the shepherd was starting to dream of what a ram he could become, plus he did it under the tree so it took me an hour to find him.

Bl**dy sheep why do we do it, and to think I could have sold him for £150 two months ago.
Oh well there is always another year.
FJ

 

[Estate fencing.]

Oh dear, I bet the crap runty one with joint ill that will never finish met you at the gate though.

 

[farmer james]

Oh dear, I bet the crap runty one with joint ill that will never finish met you at the gate though.

He would have done but he is not in that field, I like to try and forget about him when I am looking at future tups
FJ

 

[Levelsman]

He would have done but he is not in that field, I like to try and forget about him when I am looking at future tups
FJ

Don't give up on him - I expect he's got the same genetics and I don't think joint ill is hereditary, even if you have to stand him up to collect a few straws of semen and it's amazing what you can do with EBV's

Of course condition score 1 & 2 specimens don't get stuck on their backs either - stay positive, it's only £30 to get rid of the deceased, so that's only £180 down and we're already 3/4 of the way through the day! Just think - tomorrow could be a bad day

 

[primmiemoo]

It's the ovine equivalent of "Those whom the gods love die young!", isn't it

 

[AT Aloss]

Don't give up on him - I expect he's got the same genetics and I don't think joint ill is hereditary, even if you have to stand him up to collect a few straws of semen and it's amazing what you can do with EBV's

I've got a ram called Bendy who was a really weedy cade, a complete wet blanket. He got flattened by his mother, put in the cade pen & it took weeks for his legs to straighten out. Mrs D spent so much time on him he got a stay of execution & we were going to turn him into a teaser, then his father died at 8 years old after a good career & we thought why not give him a go. His progeny have all been very good. We lamb outdoors & in the cold weather his lambs had the most get up & go. He recorded the least in field losses. Somehow he has elevated himself to the top spot status amongst the other tups. He's not much to look at but he's got a brilliant work rate as well. A real case of all that glisters isn't gold!

 

[Al R]

Turned a group of ewes with lambs into a field. Passing said field 30 minutes later with another group I saw this. It’s been empty for years and is just a field ornament, she’d managed to bend her neck around and get stuck. 1 less AF to cull this year anyway

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Oh dear, I bet the crap runty one with joint ill that will never finish met you at the gate though.

One of those got through the fence into my wintering yearlings. My looker didn't bother to do anything about it 'cos he could hardly walk and stayed in the same place all the time. He still managed 18 out of 100.

 

[neilo]

The ultimate sheep;
for the shepherd good looking, and very good figures ( the best for a ram lamb in the flock for 5 years)
For his flock mates, sheep god status, he died just as the shepherd was starting to dream of what a ram he could become, plus he did it under the tree so it took me an hour to find him.

Bl**dy sheep why do we do it, and to think I could have sold him for £150 two months ago.
Oh well there is always another year.
FJ

It seems you made the ultimate pedigree shepherd's mistake of starting to think he was a 'the one', referred to here as the kiss of death. I try desperately to avert my gaze from such animals, which catch your eye every time you go near the mob, but it never works.

I had, what I thought was, an outstanding Beltex ram lamb last year. I hung him up as an E1 in April, after he'd just about recovered from several bouts of pasteurella. The Charollais ram lamb that was never going to be prized from my hands, and who's two triplet brothers both went to other pedigree flocks, managed to get some sort of infection in his testicles just before breeding season. I try to quickly forget the 'special ones' who manage to do what yours has, moving on to apply the kiss of death to the next one...

 

[farmer james]

It seems you made the ultimate pedigree shepherd's mistake of starting to think he was a 'the one', referred to here as the kiss of death. I try desperately to avert my gaze from such animals, which catch your eye every time you go near the mob, but it never works.

I had, what I thought was, an outstanding Beltex ram lamb last year. I hung him up as an E1 in April, after he'd just about recovered from several bouts of pasteurella. The Charollais ram lamb that was never going to be prized from my hands, and who's two triplet brothers both went to other pedigree flocks, managed to get some sort of infection in his testicles just before breeding season. I try to quickly forget the 'special ones' who manage to do what yours has, moving on to apply the kiss of death to the next one...

I know what you mean but however much you try not to make that mistake of anointing the next ‘special one’, you still do, anyway on to next year
FJ

 

[dogandstick]

I reckon you’re lucky he died when he did. Just imagine he’d lived and bred sheep that just roll over and die