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sheep vaccinated...to tired to 'creative write'....full story later
That sounds ominoussheep vaccinated...to tired to 'creative write'....full story later
too tired to 'creative write'....full story later
They need to be made aware that an angry spin is not to be messed with when his man bags starts to get swung about!!!!Best they find it, and rapidly. Have they not been on the wrong side of a grumpy @spin cycle yet?
.all i can say is i 'camouflage my money so well not even i can find it'
Never mind looking like ronnie kray, I thought you looked more like ronnie Corbet.......I think it's the glasses!!!!tursday
DAY OFF ...well 10 am-4pm which for me counts......over to mu'ad dibs and playing wargames...well 'dune' the boardgame to be precise .....marty who's married to an osf of ours and is just as nerdy there to make 3,,,,,,,marty's bitta 'gastronome' and likes spicy hot food....he made lunch... mine supposedly 'mild'...i had one mouthful and gave up
the admiral ,meanwhile, had a phone survey about nfu membership...she ranted about red tractor
wednesday
bit tired and grumpy as we rode round the checking the ewes.....'i knew you'd be in a bad mood after spending the day with those rich playboys' said the admiral..'you're just as wealthy as they are' she continued.........some truth in that....cept theirs is in 'cash'...mine in 'property' and why am i trudging around scheming/working effectively 'rubbing two hapennys together to make a penny'....sometimes with the 'to do list' stretching into the distance ....input prices rising.....climate change bashing.....regulations....i begin to think 'sell up retire and be rid a the hassle'
i cheered up as the morning went on....we got the snot with store lambs home.....sorted them out ...found 10 fat lambs and 6 cull ewes for sat....resta snot back in with flock......HOWEVER considering we caught ewes up TWICE last week and marked them all,,,,,how is it we found 4 unmarked ewes........have i got 'woodland snot' that'll emerge like ww2 japanese soldiers from the 'jungle' in years to come...i suppose i should really know how many ewes we have....finished morning by getting 5 culls from stalag home
lunch.....got the bill for the toxovax...pleasantly surprised that it was only £5/ dose.....i was expecting £6+.......AND they only charged for 50 doses rather than 100.....i did the 'honest thing and rang them up
got wet in afternoon running out feed for mains electric fence to stubble turnips
lastly....this whole leather jacket/krays thing.....got marty to take a photo of mu'ad dib and i......ok not the krays....but how about reeves and mortimer
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Not heard about one of them for a while……….perhaps a bucket shortage over there tooHope the spicy lunch didn't cause a code panther
You could have made a purchase from brecklands finest scrap emporium if you'd come here afters, James?saturday
SPIN'S BIG MARKET DAY OUT
so ,being as i have only an 8x5 ifor, it was a two trip day today....12 cull ewes. 1 wether and topped up with 4 fat lambs......did it pretty easily ......little incident second trip....a lorry backing onto cattle area stopped two trailers at at gate....vegans all over second trailer filming so i stayed 50 yds back....they spot me and some decide to run towards me only for the trailers to move allowing me to sail straight past them mid sprint...a pretty girl vegan rolled her eyes in frustration...i gave her a big smile
today i decided to stay on cos there was some 'sheep equipment' to be sold at end of sale....hmm 'equipment'...more later.....anyhoo cos i was staying i thought i'd do some 'mkt research' and follow the sale....might help my ram deliberations...more later
first up fat lambs.....first observation some of the fat lambs ,i thought, needed to be in stores...whilst waiting i was 'approached' ..it was @Norfolk Hill Farmer we'd not met before so that was nice and also i had someone to chat to cos i'm a bitta 'billy no mates' up there ..anyhoo my 43kg made £108...bit behind what i see on 'tracker' but i was happy with that....we're always behind price wise up here it seems
anyway......next it was culls.....£70-100 bar one 'poor' at £40 that i wanted rid of...i'd hoped to av £80....but it'll be closer to £70
then store lambs......some looked bigger than small fats and fat lamb buyers stood on....i didn't see many....a space opened up on wash off so i took my opportunity
wandering back they were starting breeding sheep....eavesdrop alert 1/ two farmers moaning about cost of expanding flock numbers only to witness some decent pens of 'flock age' breeding sheep go for killing money...eavesdrop 2 one of the cull buyers who bought some aforementioned telling another farmer he was 'buying to kill'
NOW IT GETS 'INTERESTING' ...just a few breeding rams then the sheep equipment....i'm waiting....enter 'NHF'..'hey you reckon you need a new ram' and he pushes me towards a pen of hampshire downs .....'i don't buy from markets' i stutter...'why not' NHF interrupts pointing at a ,i must say, decent charolais....i weaken....climb a gate to observe...'two int pen...take pick' auctioneer is off...not a lotta interest....goes over cull price....stalls at £135....i bid £140......£145 bid...i chicken out ......'you didn't stay in for long' chastens NHF
no time for recriminations though we're on to the 'equipment'...i'm after some hurdles but they make strong money....i do however have a little purchase for £26 ....afterwards NHF is rather rude about it 'give me a tenner and i'll scrap it for you'
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Btw, Norwich! WTF.thursday
am...rounded up some more mart candidates ...and yes i did ride round the field with a bucket 'luring' a posse into hms sheep cycle for sorting...keep or cull marked so was quite easy
pm.....attempted to do some book work but had computer so was a bit distracted
friday
am ...chores.....penned /tagged sat's 'team'
pm....extended catching pen for store lambs in next village...pharmacy run for admiral
edit...just looked at city score and was so surprised i hit 'post reply' to early