f**k Up Fortnight

[Nithsdale]

Why do we do it to ourselves?



I can laugh because I'm through it and at the other end of lambing... but fvck it can be demoralising at times

 

[Nithsdale]

I had one with a uterine prolapse this morning, 3 days after she lambed, with the whole lot inside out.
Got her back to the yard, dangled from the pallet forks so gravity would help, and quietly slipped the whole lot back in and inverted nicely. Very pleased with myself, I stitched her up while she was hanging quietly, gave her a shot of Metacam and another of antibiotic, and gently lowered her to the ground.

As soon as she laid down, she took a sudden gasp and keeled over dead. Feckin’ sheep.

Dangled?? Were you up a ladder?

 

[BAF]

Lambing '22 completed it mate. Some d**kh**d allowed it to drag on by an unnecessary cycle being soft and letting 2 ewe lambs have another go with the tup because I like them gave this one a little tug because I'm going out and didn't want to leave her to kill it lambing herself so now the f**k ups can move back to lambs commiting suicide and ewes dropping dead for no reason other than they like the idea.

 

[Nithsdale]

 

[firther]

Well fed but not well bred, bottom end mules that I can’t sell and Welsh cross Suffolks.

You've some good quality sheep in that case then

 

[bendigeidfran]

This thread reminds me of a friend of mine, asked him when he was starting lambing and he said must be quite soon, they have started to die.

 

[2wheels]

Like when farmers get chosen to be the face of a fert company or the McDonald's TV adverts..... I'd be the face of North East Fallen Stock haha...

... standing over a dead ewe having pulled out a rotten lamb in bits with blood and afterbirth stuck to my glasses haha

every time the wife and i go out in the car we see douglasbrae lorry. ah well we say ,at least he didn't stop for us.

 

[2wheels]

Well today the number of live lambs passed the number of ewes that had lambed Still I think it's progress.
On a more cheerful note some may remember the picture of the lambs we took out the side of a ewe we'd had to shoot.

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One died but the other two cheered me up today

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they will probably die once they have drunk a bag of milk and a heap of creep pellets. damhik.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Trucks out of action, so I’ve nicked the misses corsa for shepherding.

 

[unlacedgecko]

View attachment 1027095Trucks out of action, so I’ve nicked the misses corsa for shepherding.

It'll be much better on fuel. I ran an all terrain fiesta van for a while. Went well.

 

[steveR]

they will probably die once they have drunk a bag of milk and a heap of creep pellets. damhik.

Ahhh yes, I know that one only too well...

Herself used to bring from her cousins, dead, dying and orphan lambs to me and I would be told "make them live". Sometimes I did....

The real PITA is when they croak, 3 weeks later, usually down to zero colostrum, and too old to do the lamb any good by the time they arrived here...

My moaning made an impression, as said lambs got younger... and the colostrum sometimes even worked! I have taken to mixing in a thawed ice cube of cow colostrum with the powder ewe colostrum, after a suggestion on here, that it will help with the anti-bodies. Cade lambs looking well this time.

 

[David.]

You probably didn't need the trainers to chase the dead one down....

 

[primmiemoo]

View attachment 1027095Trucks out of action, so I’ve nicked the misses corsa for shepherding.

My runabout often doubles as hospital wagon. There's a special boot liner in it atm, because, let's face it, sheepy fluids and stale milk do pong once they've gone feral in bootspace ~ and let's not go there when upholstery is involved

 

[Jonp]

My runabout often doubles as hospital wagon. There's a special boot liner in it atm, because, let's face it, sheepy fluids and stale milk do pong once they've gone feral in bootspace

Especially on those nice warm sunny days!

 

[David.]

My runabout often doubles as hospital wagon. There's a special boot liner in it atm, because, let's face it, sheepy fluids and stale milk do pong once they've gone feral in bootspace ~ and let's not go there when upholstery is involved

Don't try formalin then.

 

[primmiemoo]

Don't try formalin then.

Is that worse than "that smell" from rotten lambs?

 

[David.]

It will certainly clear your head every time you get in the vehicle.

 

[Kingcustard]

You probably didn't need the trainers to chase the dead one down....

Harsh

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Don't try formalin then.

It will make you sneeze, once got it in one eye, think it watered for a day after it.

 

[steveR]

My runabout often doubles as hospital wagon. There's a special boot liner in it atm, because, let's face it, sheepy fluids and stale milk do pong once they've gone feral in bootspace ~ and let's not go there when upholstery is involved

205l plastic drum cut in half lengthwise??