Make nice cows those willView attachment 1168974View attachment 1168975View attachment 1168976In keeping with today’s theme, had these this week, all by the new shorthorn bull, all first time heifers spat them out in their own outside, three heifer calves!! Much better than the other bunch by the new lim bull
Lovely looking cattle but, but it looks so dry, at least an inch of rain last night here, we’re going to have a serious problem in April if ours doesn’t look like that by then.View attachment 1168974View attachment 1168975View attachment 1168976In keeping with today’s theme, had these this week, all by the new shorthorn bull, all first time heifers spat them out in their own outside, three heifer calves!! Much better than the other bunch by the new lim bull
Wretched morning here. Steady rain and cold easterly. When will this weather pick up ?
According to the Met Office next week is damp with possibility of heavy showers. Looks a bit better for the following week for us
Unfortunately higher than average pressure for the northern UKat this time of year, means dragging in easterly air over the North Sea.. It might be dry but it‘s unlik to be very warm or more importantly growthy
Did everything sell well another hexham cattle seller gone
Do you shear all your hoggs as they come inside at this time of year? Im bellying a load of lambs after lunch that are going next week wish id just sheared them 4 weeks ago TBHView attachment 1168994
blue heifer with lim heifer, calved herself and up and sucking within an hour
Try to, this lot had gone stale inside. We’d had 3 draws at them but they’d started to just plateau. So whipped the wool off them and they’re doing again now
I have the number for the fella who runs the clay pigeon shooting.. but have I even a leg too stand on before I ring him up going wild?Fly tipping? Start by ringing and not going wild see what he says then go from thereWhat’s the general consensus of the team here…
I rent some ground with a river running along the edge of it quite a big river about 20-30 metres wide…
The first time it’s been dry enough too drive around the land feeding my ewes and lambs today .. the other side of the river they were having a clay pigeon shoot, soon as I arrived they stopped shooting, then I had a drive round and realised my field is now scattered in smashed clays… wanted too bale these fields for hay later in the year
They used too shoot the other direction but I’m guessing that the person who owns that land has kicked off at him now because he’s sold all his sheep and going into just making hay/haylage .. so now I appear too be getting the clays fired at me… can’t be great for my sheep being pebble dashed all day long every Saturday/Sunday
Start by trying to be reasonable. Such as oi Pedro, it might have been polite to let me know you were shooting over my field . I think paying for a few ton of crystalix blocks , and a few loads of hay to compensate for the loss of the following hay crop would be polite !They used too shoot the other direction but I’m guessing that the person who owns that land has kicked off at him now because he’s sold all his sheep and going into just making hay/haylage .. so now I appear too be getting the clays fired at me… can’t be great for my sheep being pebble dashed all day long every Saturday/Sunday
Ever the optimistOnly 1 heifer left to calve now, the others have been great, this one will go completely wrong now just to level the field. Be a huge dead calf, embryotomy or c section, heifer will get peritonitis and die too. Just watch, I can see it happening
Who do you rent the land off? Through an agent or someone you know? I'd be speaking to them firstWhat’s the general consensus of the team here…
I rent some ground with a river running along the edge of it quite a big river about 20-30 metres wide…
The first time it’s been dry enough too drive around the land feeding my ewes and lambs today .. the other side of the river they were having a clay pigeon shoot, soon as I arrived they stopped shooting, then I had a drive round and realised my field is now scattered in smashed clays… wanted too bale these fields for hay later in the year
How long do they take to disintergrate? I thought they dissolved in time?They used too shoot the other direction but I’m guessing that the person who owns that land has kicked off at him now because he’s sold all his sheep and going into just making hay/haylage .. so now I appear too be getting the clays fired at me… can’t be great for my sheep being pebble dashed all day long every Saturday/Sunday
Off an old woman that’s like 97 and about dead
she lives 30 odd miles away and hasn’t actually visited her own land for about 5-10 years
No idea but I doubt that’ll be much of a consolation when I make hay out of it this summer and sell the hay and who ever buys it rings up going wild about the amount of chunks of clays in it