f**k Up Fortnight

[steveR]

We’ve had a few , all gritstone cross , it like they are too posh to push and are found with a hung lamb which once removed leaves them wobbling around then they will be found dead
Five so far yet the white face ewes on exactly the same ground, feed and tups have been ok
I am adamant the grit cross will not be here after this lambing

From the sounds of it, the damned "grit cross" are making sure they won't make it another lambing anyway.....

 

[Wood field]

From the sounds of it, the damned "grit cross" are making sure they won't make it another lambing anyway.....

One of my neighbours said , they look bloody good ewes on the moor , looking goods one thing , producing a lamb another

 

[primmiemoo]

on met office 1, its just stated raining now

Unusual for them to be that far off. I can't get that channel, but I do have their youtube, which hasn't been too wide of the mark for here during the school holidays. Windy is a handy reference, too ~ you can toggle it for cloud soundings and lots of other tweaks to home in on home conditions.

Long experience is local TV forecasters tend to be over optimistic in holiday season so as not to upset the Grockle Trappers and Wranglers Club. Forecasts for farmers and growers get ousted in favour.

 

[firther]

Unusual for them to be that far off. I can't get that channel, but I do have their youtube, which hasn't been too wide of the mark for here during the school holidays. Windy is a handy reference, too ~ you can toggle it for cloud soundings and lots of other tweaks to home in on home conditions.

Long experience is local TV forecasters tend to be over optimistic in holiday season so as not to upset the Grockle Trappers and Wranglers Club. Forecasts for farmers and growers get ousted in favour.

It's heavy rain this morning and cold, Pennines for you 9 months of winter

 

[Wood field]

It's heavy rain this morning and cold, Pennines for you 9 months of winter

Only 9 ?

 

[steveR]

Only 9 ?

Pennines?? And to think that one of my "fantasy farms" last year was above Alston..... Must have been bonkers.

Place looked very different when blatting past on the bike following my lad in the early Summer!!

 

[steveR]

Jabbing her tonight as she is not comfortable at all. However, I got the lamb back to the farm with an old ewe and her two lambs, slow and steady. But now she does not want the lamb..... It's only been 24 hrs!

Ewe still surviving, but still blowing, The lamb is dead

Got my care package screwed up somewhere....

 

[Wood field]

Pennines?? And to think that one of my "fantasy farms" last year was above Alston..... Must have been bonkers.

Place looked very different when blatting past on the bike following my lad in the early Summer!!

Fairly bleak in parts up there , I went up to pick up the AJS, they were silaging at the time and leaving some hellish wet ruts
Fans on full , we’ve drizzling rain but not silly , blowing it down to @firther !
Actually the wind turned from a northerly to a nnw, it’s chilly but bearable

 

[ladycrofter]

First skin on this morning. A gimmer's lamb was dead in the cowl first rounds . Yesterday evening I discovered new twins with of course only one side working. Now hoping 2+2=4 and the gimmer takes the weaker twin.

Poor thing is a bit addled, first hungry and mom's not too bothered but loves the other one, then getting full on the bottle, now wearing a skin and with a strange mom.

 

[Wood field]

Working out when moor ewes should finish as I need the space , drove around on the quad and they seem to have lambs at foot ( apart from 35 hoggs)
Mrs boss informed me they won’t finish for another.., 4 weeks
tempted to go through them in a race on the next dry day , worm , mark and evict!
hoggs in shed after scanning can go to away ground leaving 4 mothering pens with lambs getting a top up

Started dismantling the feed barriers ready to muck out ! Then I can get on with building the handling/ dipping system, repairing the defender and tinkering with my bikes !

 

[yellowbelly]

10 left outside here....

......plus 2 in the shed that look like they might lamb around the longest day

Edit. Going to check on the scanned empties that are away from home this afternoon - wouldn't be the first time the scanner man had missed a late one

 

[Wood field]

10 left outside here....

......plus 2 in the shed that look like they might lamb around the longest day

Edit. Going to check on the scanned empties that are away from home this afternoon - wouldn't be the first time the scanner man had missed a late one

Had 9 ewes amongst hoggs scanned yesterday, 7 marked geld are in lamb !
My fault for leaving tups in

 

[ladycrofter]

@yellow belly @Wood field I know the cure. Tups go in, tups COME OUT. Took a few years to work him around to this and now he's shortening it up even more - two cycles, the end .

It's a bit of a mind change to do it, also because of the time of year. You feel like you've accomplished something in the autumn, tupping groups sorted, dosing etc done, tups out. But then have to gear up again just before Christmas to gather everything in and pull the tups out and get them tucked away for winter. Worth it!!! May 12 it's over here. Hopefully long before.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

@yellow belly @Wood field I know the cure. Tups go in, tups COME OUT. Took a few years to work him around to this and now he's shortening it up even more - two cycles, the end .

It's a bit of a mind change to do it, also because of the time of year. You feel like you've accomplished something in the autumn, tupping groups sorted, dosing etc done, tups out. But then have to gear up again just before Christmas to gather everything in and pull the tups out and get them tucked away for winter. Worth it!!! May 12 it's over here. Hopefully long before.

I’ve got one lot lambing and the tup is still in with them

 

[Wood field]

I’ve got one lot lambing and the tup is still in with them

Chap we know chucked tups back in with geld ewes .., in February

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

I’ve got one lot lambing and the tup is still in with them

There were no empties when this lot were scanned so not really bothered

 

[primmiemoo]

Wretched ewe decided to reject one of hers after 2 days. She just turned on him and savaged him. D. in seconds. What on earth could have made her do that!

 

[steveR]

First skin on this morning. A gimmer's lamb was dead in the cowl first rounds . Yesterday evening I discovered new twins with of course only one side working. Now hoping 2+2=4 and the gimmer takes the weaker twin.

Poor thing is a bit addled, first hungry and mom's not too bothered but loves the other one, then getting full on the bottle, now wearing a skin and with a strange mom.

all works out!

 

[steveR]

Wretched ewe decided to reject one of hers after 2 days. She just turned on him and savaged him. D. in seconds. What on earth could have made her do that!

'kin things. Like a switch goes on!

Sheep equivilant of PND?

 

[steveR]

tempted to go through them in a race on the next dry day , worm , mark and evict!
hoggs in shed after scanning can go to away ground leaving 4 mothering pens with lambs getting a top up

Started dismantling the feed barriers ready to muck out ! Then I can get on with building the handling/ dipping system, repairing the defender and tinkering with my bikes !

Nice warm and sunny day and those priorities might change for a few hours