New lambs

[Henarar]

TFF "Freddy" Flufffhead
you think @gone up the hill

 

[farmerclare]

You cant turn him into cutlets

Mince then ?

 

[Henarar]

this pic was about six weeks ago

 

[Cab-over Pete]

He looks a cracker.

My kids love the lambs with fluffy heads too. Some of the Hamps at 3-8 months old look brilliant.

You're right, it's good to have a bit of fun along the way and as long as nothing suffers then a mistake or two never did any harm.

 

[Henarar]

Clare thinks Flufffhead is a Dorset cross Southdown, she was with a small group of store lambs we bought the autumn before last, here she is when we got her

we fattened them up and took them to market but the price was crap so we brought them back and after a while we got enough orders to have all but one back for the freezer so I said we will keep Flufffhead and I put her in the back of my trooper and took her all the way up to Warwickshire were Clare kept her sheep back then, here she is when she got there

Goes to show how wet it can get here by the state of her, but she looks happy about it.
After a few months we decided to move as many of Clare's small flock down here as we could get in the trailer the rest she sold, that was a year or so ago,
Flufffhead went to a Texel tup that we borrowed along with the rest of Clares ewes and that's how we ended up with Freddy
So that's how I got into sheep farming

 

[Cab-over Pete]

She looks happier in Warwickshire.

 

[gone up the hill]

Mince then ?

No NO No... Freddie isn't for the knife, sounds like from above its fate that he is here today, farm/ TFF mascot is Freddie's future

Anymore of this talk about sending him down the road and I will get @llamedos to start a twitter campaign to stop it...

 

[farmerclare]

Kebabs ?

 

[GrannyAching]

I don't feel so bad about all mine now - technically they are the kids flock but I've got a few, too. Every one gets a name. It does my head in but the kids (actually adults - students - say no more) seem totally cool about selling Gimli and Gloin. Worse still the eldest said the other day that she thinks we should cull Agnes, Esme and Magrat, our foundation ewes because they are "more trouble than they are worth". It really wouldn't bother me if they weren't named. One of my ewes has produced this spectacular ram lamb, I'm not sure if it's a good thing but I have never known such an intelligent sheep - he works every thing out. Four weeks into bucket feeding my mollies in the field he calmly walked up and latched on to the spare teat, he'd not been handled since birth. So if anyone wants him he's pure Lleyn and stunning - otherwise he'll be heading for the store market in the autumn. Not as cute as Freddy, mind.

 

[gone up the hill]

Kebabs ?

Nope TFF farm mascot

 

[farmerclare]

Roasted with mint sauce ?

 

[GrannyAching]

Roasted with mint sauce ?

I think you are on a loser here, maybe time to back down gracefully and get out the pinchers. There will be bigger battles to fight............

 

[farmerclare]

I am a vegetarian so would never eat Freddy anyway

 

[Henarar]

I am a vegetarian

so is freddy

 

[farmerclare]

Cancel the twitter campaign

 

[GrannyAching]

Cancel the twitter campaign

Teaser ram, then?

 

[farmerclare]

Too late for that he had a ring on.

 

[GrannyAching]

Too late for that he had a ring on.

Just ram's companion? Not a bad role.

 

[farmerclare]

Don't have a ram we just borrow one

 

[GrannyAching]

Don't have a ram we just borrow one

Pretend "ram around flock" ???? Lawn mower?