Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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- North Yorkshire
Sam Smith brewery isn’t a them/they
The pubs in tadcaster used to be a bit of an eye opener, the beer was cheap but eyes in the back of your head would’ve been useful
They own quite a bit of farmland as well, a lad I know got a tenancy on there, criteria included having to be married and it being your main or only source of income. The previous tenant was on thin ice I believe when he got divorced, allegedly the nail in the coffin was him hanging his washing out on a Sunday, apparently that’s a big no
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- North Yorkshire
Maybe the millennium bug was real, just wasn’t computer relatedThey must of started putting something funny in the water after the year 2000, seems to be a lot of it come on after that!!
bobajob
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- Sw Scotland
You joke about it but apparently there is quite a lot of progesterone in the drinking water nowadays from all the women on the pill, you never know!!Maybe the millennium bug was real, just wasn’t computer related
Glad we are on our own spring supply!
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- Cheshire
They stopped people slapping other people for being bloody stupid…They must of started putting something funny in the water after the year 2000, seems to be a lot of it come on after that!!
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
If he was having to catch them to lamb he either had tupped them when they should have been runners, or was feeding them wrong.That surely depends on how big the mule is?
A Texel breeder friend once told me that he preferred using a Texel on his mule Hoggs as, if you had to catch them to lamb them anyway, it meant they didn't have a chance to run off and leave them.
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- Cheshire
3 Cheviot mule Hoggs all lambed twins this morning completely unassisted, all lambs up and suckling. Jobs a good un 
now off out bringing the last 110 blackie hoggs off dairy keep. And it’s raining 
now off out bringing the last 110 blackie hoggs off dairy keep. And it’s raining
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
Just warm drizzle here at the moment. Went round outside lambers (mostly N of E mules). Two stood suckling new twins (no mix ups) and one single struggling to lamb, water bag been burst a while and not happy. Wouldn’t let me near her and being tired I just said rubbish and went in for a cup of tea. Went back out an hour later and she’s stood with a lamb the size of a small pit pony!3 Cheviot mule Hoggs all lambed twins this morning completely unassisted, all lambs up and suckling. Jobs a good un
Aspiring Peasants
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- North Pennines
You must have some very kind dairy farmers who let you on until end of April!!3 Cheviot mule Hoggs all lambed twins this morning completely unassisted, all lambs up and suckling. Jobs a good un
Or have you just not been answering the phone since Jan??
Rich_ard
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Sorry it was a joke, perhaps bad taste with what's being said!
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- Cheshire
We’re good at jokes in bad taste
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- Cheshire
Westerwolds pre maize
He'll be lucky if he hasn't already sold them.
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- Montgomeryshire
Or he just wasn't buying those 60-70kg monsters coming off hoppers in the breeding sales?
I only want my mature ewes to weigh that.
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Alright, queers and steers! (Who's the fanny getting offended?!?!)
Carlisle is dead this morning!.. hopefully that'll mean a good trade for my ewes. Few more without lambs than normal, putting it down to the weather (and a group shoving through between a gate and fence post a week before lambing starting
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Carlisle is dead this morning!.. hopefully that'll mean a good trade for my ewes. Few more without lambs than normal, putting it down to the weather (and a group shoving through between a gate and fence post a week before lambing starting
)I've lambed hundreds of mule hoggetts that would have been no more than 45kg when I bought them. Lambed outside with just the spring flush of grass to get them going. Biggest problem is too many twins. I doubt those monsters at the gimmer lamb sales even see a ram in their 1st year.
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- North Yorkshire
Doesn’t your dairy man know he’s meant to be cutting grass this month not grazing it3 Cheviot mule Hoggs all lambed twins this morning completely unassisted, all lambs up and suckling. Jobs a good un
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- Montgomeryshire
Alright, queers and steers! (Who's the fanny getting offended?!?!)
Carlisle is dead this morning!.. hopefully that'll mean a good trade for my ewes. Few more without lambs than normal, putting it down to the weather (and a group shoving through between a gate and fence post a week before lambing starting
Welshpool quiet this morning too, so hoping for same.
Another bunch of dry hoggs out the door, as well as a handful of cull ewes that I thought were too thin a fortnight ago. Amazing how much they've all put on grazing in the last fortnight.
Skintagain
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- Perched on the Pennines
Ewes have bagged up this last few days amazing what some sunshine into the grass does.