f**k Up Fortnight

[Kingcustard]

Yes...8 year old HER X BF, hardest thing with them is keeping the weight off! Live out all year.

Sounds just like my daughter apart form the breeing haha

 

[AftonShepherd]

Sounds just like my daughter apart form the breeing haha

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if your daughter ever discovers this forum!

 

[Kingcustard]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if your daughter ever discovers this forum!

She's a beast, she would kick my are up and down the yard haha

 

[Bob the beef]

Haha a common misconception is that Fife is all good rolling grade 1 arable. The second picture is on a field that looks on to the Old Course at St Andrews a few miles away, beautiful grassy place in the summer, come November it is not possible to go over it with anything other than a tractor, deep clay heavy soil. I can actually get stuck in the Landy going down hill it gets so wet. It becomes a barren wasteland.

The rest of it is rushes and Meadows that flood frequently.

It's actually called the heelands (Highlands for the English listeners) of Fife, that surely says it all.

That particular field is called the Goats Hole because a neighbours goat broke out many moons ago and after an argument grandad sent dad to shoot it and bury it in the old coal minings.

I love where field names come from.

Anyway I can see plenty rich farmers from here, but unfortunately I am not one of them.

The other farm runs to 1000 feet and is a mix of rock heads and wet holes.

My grandpa who used to farm in west fife among the coal fields had saying
Fife- a band of gold surrounding the devil’s arsehole.
There’s some cracking land round the coast’s but in the middle there is some real tough stuff

 

[Kingcustard]

My grandpa who used to farm in west fife among the coal fields had saying
Fife- a band of gold surrounding the devil’s arsehole.
There’s some cracking land round the coast’s but in the middle there is some real tough stuff

Correct and I am right in the middle haha.

The only good bit is how all farmers outwith Fife slag the sh!t out of it, but go crazy when there is a fsrm for sale.

As grandad said " you go West for a wife and East for a farm"

 

[Bill dog]

Correct and I am right in the middle haha.

The only good bit is how all farmers outwith Fife slag the sh!t out of it, but go crazy when there is a fsrm for sale.

As grandad said " you go West for a wife and East for a farm"

Or to go against the tide rather , I married a Fifer , and took her back to Ayrshire!
She wasn’t so convinced by the joys of constant rain, so we’re now over in the Borders !

 

[Kingcustard]

Or to go against the tide rather , I married a Fifer , and took her back to Ayrshire!
She wasn’t so convinced by the joys of constant rain, so we’re now over in the Borders !

The borders is gods country so you are alright

 

[Bob the beef]

The borders is gods country so you are alright

Tis indeed, but dont tell anyone else

 

[Bill dog]

Tis indeed, but dont tell anyone else

I’m amazed they let me in !

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall if your daughter ever discovers this forum!

I wouldn’t, don’t like seeing grown men cry…

 

[Anymulewilldo]

That’s it for this year. Had too wait a fortnight after the last one but worth the wait.

until the left over fat hoggs start lambing…

 

[yellowbelly]

Back due to popular demand..

Post in thread 'Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts' https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...p-beef-cattle-pig-addicts.376132/post-8596022

Time to revive the f**k Up Fortnight thread?


We've just started lambing - got away quite lightly in F-u- F here this year, one prolapse and a triplet ewe aborted her lambs

Then there's the usual other 'sheep related incidents'....

 

[Bill dog]

Back due to popular demand..

Post in thread 'Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts' https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index...p-beef-cattle-pig-addicts.376132/post-8596022

Time to revive the f**k Up Fortnight thread?


We've just started lambing - got away quite lightly in F-u- F here this year, one prolapse and a triplet ewe aborted her lambs

Then there's the usual other 'sheep related incidents'....
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Well revived thread @yellowbelly !
A quick nosey up the page reveals the usual suspects!🫣
We need @Kingcustard on the confessions thread , I think @unlacedgecko will feel comforted having another fifer in our merry band !

 

[Bill dog]

My input is our first Beltex gimmer ( global domination plan by youngest management) aborted twins on Sunday, 10 days early .
At least the train station is now christened!

 

[Nithsdale]

Ewe prolapsed on Sunday, dead this morning...



A week off lambing starting and its going quietly - I am beyond suspicious!!!!

 

[Further a field]

My tups get out and wander down road a neighbour's comes across they and opens a gate and let's them in with an other nieghbours replacement dry hoggs!!

 

[Bill dog]

My tups get out and wander down road a neighbour's comes across they and opens a gate and let's them in with an other nieghbours replacement dry hoggs!!

How long were they in? That’s a tricky neighbourly chat to have!

 

[Further a field]

How long were they in? That’s a tricky neighbourly chat to have!

All afternoon!

 

[Nithsdale]

How long were they in? That’s a tricky neighbourly chat to have!

Easy solution; The 3rd neighbour (who put the tups in the neighbours field) has to lamb the hoggs...

 

[steveR]

Ewe prolapsed on Sunday, dead this morning...



A week off lambing starting and its going quietly - I am beyond suspicious!!!!

Excellent management obviously.....