Just watching 1883 , will be up in your hood on tuesday , dryburgh abbey calls for a couple nights ,and speedys to pick up some tackle
Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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If we're listing achievements I once had a pedigree heifer roll into a ditch while calving and both died on Christmas EveDon’t want to boast but I had three dead calves on Xmas day couple years ago
Rich_ard
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That's the kind of achievement any sheep would be very proud of.
ThatsSomeSheep
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Christmas Day a few years ago, I (stupidly) decided to move a mob of yowes into the next field for a better bite. Usually i would just open the gate, let them make their own through and close the gate the following day. This time I decided to put the dog around them to hunt them through.
Bad idea on Christmas morning! A yowe fell off the wee bridge between fields and got stuck in the ditch, I ended up waist deep in icie muddy ditch water lifting her out. Last time I ever attempt even the simplest of not strictly necessary jobs on Christmas Day.
TSS
Well I don’t know, probably!! It was one in the bunch I bought in yesterday, probably stress of being in brought it on, didn’t look like it had thrashed about but in a shed with the rest you wouldn’t see probably!! It’s feckin dead any way, nice young cow too, it would normally really feck me off but more recently I tend to think, well, could be worse, could be me!
I would rather find dead stock than sick stock. At least you only have one bill for them.
livestock 1
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I sometimes find a one like that dead with staggers in the shed. Often associated with an east wind that cuts you in half. I think it brings stress on and causes hypocalcemia.Well I don’t know, probably!! It was one in the bunch I bought in yesterday, probably stress of being in brought it on, didn’t look like it had thrashed about but in a shed with the rest you wouldn’t see probably!! It’s feckin dead any way, nice young cow too, it would normally really feck me off but more recently I tend to think, well, could be worse, could be me!
I use a fair bit of the powdered mineral father used to chuck it on the silage before doing anything with them a day or three before hand.
I’m not usually that well organised because I don’t know what I’m doing until ten minutes before hand.
- Location
- Cheshire
I’ve been tested, all negative. But hell it’s a good cough. Annoying thing is you can cough half a lung up but not shift any phlegm at all
- Location
- Cheshire
Unless you walk into a shed to be met with widespread death… that’s not pleasant
- Location
- Cheshire
They are very good as a vocal minority. Sub 1% of the population but make a damn sight more noise per capita than us normal (and yes I use the term loosely) individuals who make up the other 99% of society
I cough so much my dinner comes back to haunt me.
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- Cheshire
I’m sat at mums looking forward to my first Christmas dinner. I’m hoping like hell I can enjoy it as much as normal. Dads been dying in bed all day, that NEVER happens.I cough so much my dinner comes back to haunt me.
had first fall out with eldest son. He’s got his first proper toy farm from mum and dad for his birthday. I’m very jealous really
But he’s definitely taking telehandler driving lessons from his uncle Paul 
Aye they’ve got licks all the time and I remembered to put one with them in the shed
! It’ll be bringing them in that’s upset her, they’re never in a shed or trailered about much, some are just sensitive to a change like that aren’t they! They were only in feckin trailer ten mins so hardly a major disturbance, they just do it out of spite!! It’s like that feckin stork I was trying to catch the other day, that’s a twunt, it refuses to go in the pen, so I have to rope it, it’s had three jabs an it’s leg refuses to go down!! 
- Location
- Cheshire
Well this is cheering me up I’ve an Angus x blue 2nd calver due anytime bedded then up to the eyeballs this morning so they should be done right over Christmas
I’ve an Angus x blue 2nd calver due anytime bedded then up to the eyeballs this morning so they should be done right over ChristmasJust started last night,watched 3 episodes. Thoroughly enjoyed it, best of it is wife and daughter are enjoying it too.
Just about to have pork rolls, stuffing, apple sauce an pigs in blankets, it’s a bit of Xmas eve tradition the mrs puts on for her dad and his mrs, they aren’t coming now though because our two little’uns are down with a cough an sore throat!! More crackling for me then, good news all roundI’m sat at mums looking forward to my first Christmas dinner. I’m hoping like hell I can enjoy it as much as normal. Dads been dying in bed all day, that NEVER happens.
had first fall out with eldest son. He’s got his first proper toy farm from mum and dad for his birthday. I’m very jealous really
She'll be fine, I find that mostly other people get all the good luckWell this is cheering me up
Have you put the mineral in though, or a lickWell this is cheering me up
you aswell
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- North of Perth
Seen me put some mag tubs in that situation in the past.