muleman
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i`m not havin that,its too round a number,you`ll av lost a couple out of all them.
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Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
My wangs staying in my pants...it's way too small to wave on here
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- Dumfries & Galloway
holywell farmer
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- holywell, north wales
Just think in Australia flock numbers be huge there !He lost 2 arctic loads on Friday
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- West Wales
Rawlinna is the biggest sheep farm with 2.5million acres.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_stations_in_Australia
What breed of hens are they
holywell farmer
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- holywell, north wales
Farming on huge scale
holywell farmer
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- holywell, north wales
Would say bigger flock more risk of deaths
30 years ago the wool cheque covered the shearing,wormer and not much else.Imagine the wool cheque off 10k ewes 30 years ago..,he'd of had more money than the queen
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
When was it when it paid the rent?
I'm not really sure.
Northeastfarmer
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- Cleveland
Least we are both young enough not to know
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- West Wales
Not always, most of them know what their doing as they wouldn't have been able to get to that scale... the signs that something is wrong is usually caught upon before it is a problem, although saying that they'd be more practical about cost effectiveness and would put something down instead of a £60 vet call out fee plus £60/hr?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Most I kept w
As 3020 ewes not counting their lambs. Those being Welsh outdoor lambing. Lot less work that a 1000 Mules indoors
As 3020 ewes not counting their lambs. Those being Welsh outdoor lambing. Lot less work that a 1000 Mules indoors
Coximus
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Previous tennant of a block I rent says the wool paid his rent, fuel and machinery bill into the mid 70's then down hill from their, by the 90's paid for itself and since then it lots money.
He'd never seen a wool shedding sheep till I took over.
Lovegoodstock
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- Buckinghamshire
Lucky, or dad made our luck of almost all land in one ring fenced block, but no fancy prattley , 1350 lambing ewes, 230 suckler cows and followers 600 cattle in total, just put in for planning permission for new build farm house, me and mum and dad who are 80, adas or accorus report stated stock numbers and land work with acreage dictated 7 full time employees which included me mum and dad as 3??? Really. 4 full time employees here would be well over 100k wages, no wonder some lose money hand over foot, farming easy to an extent, same as any other business, minimise expenditure, maximise output, to a level you can achieve, if it doesn't realistically leave a margin then you are not going to make a go of it, but especially on a year like last year, you should be laughing with the margins surely?