f**k Up Fortnight

[Aspiring Peasants]

What's the depreciation on a draft Shetland? (I had to correct that it came through as daft Shetland )

 

[beardface]

Sounds like your stock fence is too slack. Why are sheep putting their head through the fence?

Why do sheep jump in ditches?

 

[unlacedgecko]

What's the depreciation on a draft Shetland? (I had to correct that it came through as daft Shetland )

So far it's negative.

 

[yellowbelly]

First F1 2tooths are due to lamb next month.

You'll be off on your holidays then

... all that culling should make them 'a walk in the park'

 

[unlacedgecko]

Why do sheep jump in ditches?

Because they're hungry?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Sounds like your stock fence is too slack. Why are sheep putting their head through the fence?

In the nicest way… feck off with you! We find lambs with heads through perfect sheep fencing, usually trying too nibble the green hedge shoots on the other side! They are sheep, if it’s stupid and illogical, they will give it a go!

 

[unlacedgecko]

In the nicest way… feck off with you! We find lambs with heads through perfect sheep fencing, usually trying too nibble the green hedge shoots on the other side! They are sheep, if it’s stupid and illogical, they will give it a go!

I've had sheep hang in stocknet. It was due to the net being too slack and me not moving the sheep regularly enough.

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

So far it's negative.

That makes it easier to cull heavily but if you're replacing 90% every year how do you know the ones you buy will be better than the ones culled?

 

[BAF]

Because they're hungry?

They jump in ditches because they're THIRSTY. They hang themselves in fences because they're hungry and they get stuck in briars under hedges because its raining. and if they're shetlands they move via a process similar to osmosis from a high concentration of sheep to a higher concentration of land they're not supposed to be on avoiding all fences and ditches at the same time.

 

[Guleesh]

We had a ewe that we used to save several times each year from having her head stuck in ryloc. Out of a few hundred ewes she was the only one doing it, we do get the odd lamb at it, but they seem to grow out of it.

 

[unlacedgecko]

You'll be off on your holidays then

... all that culling should make them 'a walk in the park'

If it was legal in the UK, I would 100% have an unshepherded lambing. Unfortunately its not, so they get checked once a day.

Last 2 years the assistance rate had been less than 1%. Due to lack of ground all Shetlands went to a texel this year, so that may increase slightly. Stud ewes went to inverdale and F1s went to easycare as usual.

 

[serf]

I cull for everything.

Cast once = cull
Dags = cull
Lame once = cull
Fly strike = cull
Fail to wean a lamb as a 2 tooth or older = cull
Scan empty as a 2 tooth or older = cull
Any physical characteristic I think may affect function = cull
Be a twit in the pen/jump the race = cull
Fight the dog on gather = cull
Not meet BCS minimum at pre tupping check = cull
2nd yr draft not full mouth = cull
Edit obviously, needing lambing assistance = cull

How many you down to then now ......
Flock of 3

 

[unlacedgecko]

How many you down to then now ......
Flock of 3

500 draft Shetlands
50 stud easycare
3 stud inverdale x
90ish F1 ewe lambs
10 F1 2tooths
Due to lamb next month (less 67 empties. Will pull them out tomorrow). Will do feet and cull mark at same time.

200 dry ewe lambs. Mostly F1 Shetland, but approx 15 stud inverdale as well. 5 F1 currently cull marked. 2 for lame and 3 for dag.

 

[serf]

500 draft Shetlands
50 stud easycare
3 stud inverdale x
90ish F1 ewe lambs
10 F1 2tooths
Due to lamb next month (less 67 empties. Will pull them out tomorrow). Will do feet and cull mark at same time.

200 dry ewe lambs. Mostly F1 Shetland, but approx 15 stud inverdale as well. 5 F1 currently cull marked. 2 for lame and 3 for dag.

I was jesting...

 

[beardface]

Because they're hungry?

I've turned sheep into lush grass and had odd ones still think that the hedge backs are far tastier. Sheep are sheep. No matter the breed or creed their main ambition in life is to die a spectacular death, usually through hari kari.

 

[Wuffler]

Nursery Rhyme.

'Mary had a little lamb
I'm glad it wasn't mine
cos' its fleece came out in handfuls
and it suffered from the pine...
Mary stuffed it full of cobalt
and a dose of copper neat
which didn't cure the shot-jaw
or the rotten scalded feet...
it also got pneumonia
and staggers in the spring
it couldn't even run away
the knackered brainless thing...
it hung about for ages
and then it broke her heart
when it dropped down dead last Wednesday
in the ring at Hexham Mart...'

Henry Brewis.

 

[unlacedgecko]

That makes it easier to cull heavily but if you're replacing 90% every year how do you know the ones you buy will be better than the ones culled?

The bought in one's will be fresh drafts, so should average a year younger. I have an excellent agent who does all my buying for me.

They're the base ewe for a longer term breeding project. My desired output is the F1 females, which will be graded up to what I want.

F1 ewe lamb due to lamb next month. She's the cleanest shedding so far. But lots of others opening on the neck and tail head.

I'm really excited to see the F2s. They will all be single Myomax as well.

 

[David.]

Can you spot the difference?

No; me neither!
So why doesn't the miserable bitch want her second lamb

In better news, we are still not being shelled or shot at, the sun is shining and these running around make it all seem worthwhile again.

 

[beardface]

Can you spot the difference?
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No; me neither!
So why doesn't the miserable bitch want her second lamb

In better news, we are still not being shelled or shot at, the sun is shining and these running around make it all seem worthwhile again.
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Interesting looking snacker. Does the wheel spin round at the bottom?

 

[BAF]

Never fear the f**k up ness can continue beyond the prerequisite fortnight! For example if 1 scabby rat bag sh!t house pony decides to take exception to one of the better lambs sharing her paddock and for no reason, other than she's a d**kh**d, decides to stamp on said lamb. Poor little barsteward. She didn't kill him but did break his back. I'm very very unhappy. Got to find a lamb to wear his coat now!