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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
How do you …. Get out of farming?
- Thread starter Wood field
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You can have some of my sparrows, rooks and magpies...they don't shut up!
Not too stressful, the sheep are very calm, I can walk around the shed without them going stupid. Even the shearlings aren't giving me grief, the camera is great, can wake up, look around, and go back to sleep if nothing looks suspicious, it's even got a microphone so I can hear the grunting and groaning and wailing to get me leaping from my bed!.Sounds...... stressful!
This is why I am pondering shifting the cattle! Big cattle shed with loads of room about, so room for a ewe to get away a bit. Mis-mothering is my dread....
Still not getting enough sleep though.
- Location
- Hereford
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Deafness ?
My trips and twins are calming down again... ewe rolls makes them more receptive to my presence!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Hearing aids no good ? My mother is deaf its bloody awful you have my sympathy .My hearing unfortunately.
The point about giving up farming is it doesn’t mean you give up living. In fact you wonder how you ever found the time to work. As for views from the farm, you now have time to enjoy views from anywhere you fancy . If you can do it and be financially secure at a relatively young age, you still have the energy to do other things .
Rich_ard
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You must have been working longer than I've been born, I'm coming to your way of thinking. Wounder if iv wasted time working flat out to make it all work. Might have been better doing less years ago.
Snap this year will be my 50 th baling little bales, and probably my last, unless I do just a bit for my stepson, after milking cows twice a day for many years I reckon I've done my bit and earned a the easier days, going to convert a barn to retire to do not taking it too easy though
ditto this is my 48th year lambing sheep .
bit different now breed wise to those massive English halfbreds / Suffolk crosses etc that dad used to keep.
bit different now breed wise to those massive English halfbreds / Suffolk crosses etc that dad used to keep.
I'm reaping the rewards of doing mega hours while young, the important bit is to give up stupid hours before it wrecks your body, especially milking as it's hard on your joints, work hard pay off debts and invest in things that will give you an income with no work, the industrial units are my pension and can be passed on to my beneficiaries.
One thing that needs remembering by those of us pondering the future...
Remaining a Farmer, from the financial perspective, can be hugely beneficial with all the little tax perks available, especially if VAT eligibility hangs on for a year or 3. .
@Wood field , get that NEW farm bike bought NOW!
Remaining a Farmer, from the financial perspective, can be hugely beneficial with all the little tax perks available, especially if VAT eligibility hangs on for a year or 3. .
@Wood field , get that NEW farm bike bought NOW!
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Also you never know what's round the cornerOne thing that needs remembering by those of us pondering the future...
Remaining a Farmer, from the financial perspective, can be hugely beneficial with all the little tax perks available, especially if VAT eligibility hangs on for a year or 3. .
I'm certain food shortages aren't far off .
The long hours are thankfully, gone. Still the odd early start/late finish at "peak" times. But those are my choice... mostly.
That ethic still means I want to makle good hay, drill seeds in a good seedbed at an optimum time and keep things more or less tidy.*
Other than the yard and workshop!!
Which is why I am resisting trees and similiar Green BS.
The Welsh scheme is horrendous , that drakeford knob needs stringing up
livestock 1
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Farming debate in the commons now on tv
GB News have been on the case for a month now , the farmers channel
livestock 1
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Labour fella has just been on stating the public need for rewilding