Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts

[Mc115reed]

Much easier to pee and moan on the internet

I say we protest make a stand like the french

 

[unlacedgecko]

I say we protest make a stand like the french

It would be nice to be on the other side of the petrol bombs

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

That is just a race to the bottom. 7000 to one labour unit I can just see that experiment crash and burn.

It's entirely the wrong direction to be heading. Just makes it look we are inefficient which we are not. This is a completely different situation to Australia. How long will it take to check each one daily as is the (rightly so) welfare requirement in this country with one labour unit? Suggestions like that want laughing out of court

 

[Top Tip.]

Quite possible.

With the right genetics and the right infrastructure I believe it's possible, although probably not in the UK.

I think it's undoubtedly true that more sheep/labour unit are going to be required going forward though.

I can see it being possible but why on earth would you want too??

 

[Mc115reed]

It would be nice to be on the other side of the petrol bombs

I noticed at the shell garage today there’s signs up saying there’s a government order which prohibits environmental activists protesting on petrol stations and they can go straight to prison for it… but no mention of farmers protesting

 

[unlacedgecko]

I can see it being possible but why on earth would you want too??

Money

 

[unlacedgecko]

It's entirely the wrong direction to be heading. Just makes it look we are inefficient which we are not. This is a completely different situation to Australia. How long will it take to check each one daily as is the (rightly so) welfare requirement in this country with one labour unit? Suggestions like that want laughing out of court

Right genetics and infrastructure they don't need checking every day. It's not a legal requirement either.

Put them in a single mob, move them daily and you'll see any problems.

 

[Top Tip.]

Money

And kill your self in the process. I’m out !! Got that T shirt .

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

Right genetics and infrastructure they don't need checking every day. It's not a legal requirement either.

Put them in a single mob, move them daily and you'll see any problems.

Where in this country would you be able to have a single flock of 7000 ewes moved daily?

 

[Mc115reed]

Right genetics and infrastructure they don't need checking every day. It's not a legal requirement either.

Put them in a single mob, move them daily and you'll see any problems.

If I had all my sheep in 1 mob and moved them daily I’d need my own wagon and a f**k load of diesel Iv got 7 batches of sheep currently in 6 villages and 3 county’s

 

[unlacedgecko]

And kill your self in the process. I’m out !! Got that T shirt .

How else will I buy my own farm?

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

It's not a legal requirement either.

But it is a Welfare codes. They aren’t law, but if you don’t follow them it can be used as evidence in court if you’re prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to livestock.

 

[unlacedgecko]

But it is a Welfare codes. They aren’t law, but if you don’t follow them it can be used as evidence in court if you’re prosecuted for causing unnecessary suffering to livestock.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

How else will I buy my own farm?

Make some money outside of farming, that's the way it's mostly been done since the industrial revolution

 

[unlacedgecko]

If I had all my sheep in 1 mob and moved them daily I’d need my own wagon and a f**k load of diesel Iv got 7 batches of sheep currently in 6 villages and 3 county’s

Why do you think I'm moving all over the barsteward country looking for the right place to run sheep?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Make some money outside of farming, that's the way it's mostly been done since the industrial revolution

Looks like I'm destined to be a poor sh!t kicker all my days then.

Working outside of farming makes me very unhappy.

 

[Mc115reed]

Why do you think I'm moving all over the barsteward country looking for the right place to run sheep?

The right place doesn’t exsist this isn’t Australia, we don’t have 10000 acre “paddocks” anything even remotely like that is prime arable land not hill billy sheep farmer land

 

[Hilly]

St Boswells seemed to be a good trade today. Champion mule ewe lambs £295,and Half Bred ewe lambs £245 i think. A very good company of buyers present.

Did you buy the halfbreds ?

 

[Top Tip.]

How else will I buy my own farm?

In farming the only ones I know that have managed to buy farms are either through shearing or scanning. Only problem is you have to be very very good at either of them and be willing to travel.

 

[unlacedgecko]

The right place doesn’t exsist this isn’t Australia, we don’t have 10000 acre “paddocks” anything even remotely like that is prime arable land not hill billy sheep farmer land

Got up to 2100 stores in a single mob on daily moves in 2021.

Generally have all my ewes in a single mob (except tupping and lambing).

I'll find the right place eventually, even if it means I have to work with several neighbouring landowners and walk stock between blocks.