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Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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livestock 1
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Million dollar question
- Location
- Northumberland
johnspeehs
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- Location
- Co Antrim
Well if there were as many killed round your area as there were here you should see the benefit of that but as someone said yesterday it's a long time until August. Good looking stock which will always sell well anyway.
9 in that group haven’t been shorn (where out when I did the rest 
). They are far leaner and smaller than the shorn ones, will never not shear in September again.
). They are far leaner and smaller than the shorn ones, will never not shear in September again.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If they are destined for breeding sales then yes, or some of them anyway.
If they are to be retained as replacements, probably not.
A wise man once told me to always get someone else in & never to shoot your own sheep at lambing time just in case you got carried away shooting them & didn't stop...............40 years later I can still see his logicView attachment 1175216
Well this ewe almost achieved her goal in life until the 410 beat her too it. Prolapsed before lambing, then stitched and given oxytocin. Conveniently she sat on her pair of lambs while in the pen.
- Location
- Yorkshire
I don't have a gun. I was thinking about a bolt gun the other day to dispatch anything on welfare grounds then thought I don't really trust myself to have one of those either, no sheep would be safeA wise man once told me to always get someone else in & never to shoot your own sheep at lambing time just in case you got carried away shooting them & didn't stop...............40 years later I can still see his logic
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Local chap blew his finger off with a bolt gun not so long ago. Dispatching a pig and it moved just at the wrong time. He would have known what he was doing, just got unlucky.
That puts having a bad day into perspective.
- Location
- Fife
Should have used a snout snare
livestock 1
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That’s a good one I will remember thatA wise man once told me to always get someone else in & never to shoot your own sheep at lambing time just in case you got carried away shooting them & didn't stop...............40 years later I can still see his logic
- Location
- North Yorkshire
There is a grant available at the moment for a non penetrative, percussion blow ‘gun’. Never seen 1 but are they as effective/ more humane?
There was a real idiot on here that hit the blank with a claw hammer because the trigger was broken. 🫣
- Location
- North Yorkshire
How did that work out for him?
He’s still alive so couldn’t have been that bad
- Location
- North Yorkshire
I was wondering if his fingers survived
- Location
- Boston, Lincolnshire
Probably but it would seem a waste