UpAndUnder
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Sprayed lambs navel with WD40 instead of iodine one night [emoji85]
Officially lamb tired!
- Thread starter Old Boar
- Start date
I was going to give you a call, think I'll leave it a while.
Ha ha!!!! I need to put in an order... planning on spraying off next week
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
Some folk talk about being able to sleep on a clothes line, I could sleep on a barb wire fence!!
yea I know what you mean my whole flock lambed one night while I was happy sleeping, went out in the morning and it was all done up and sucking no worriesIt's the ewes that are meant to get tired from pesky lambs not the farmers ---- you guys are obviously doing something wrong
They came to see our system 30 years ago
It does amaze me the folk i see locally slaving away day and night doing work the ewes are meant to do ---why keep sheep when sheep can keep you?
Right on the money Tim, that’s my philosophy as well. I think this year was exceptional though. Even lads with easier kept sheep have been struggling with issues caused by the weather and all the knock on effects.
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Personally, it’s only about 3 yrs since I seen the light and have been trying to convert to ewes that look after thenselves. Biggest problem I have is how slow a process it is to find what your looking for, wind out the rubbish and get enough replacements in to get where you want. A slow process that takes years unfortunately.
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Old Boar
Member
- Location
- West Wales
I went to feed the sheep with lambs in the field with a bucket of nuts. Unfortunately I had forgotten to put any nuts in the bucket.
Guess what I did next.....
Guess what I did next.....
RushesToo
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- Location
- Fingringhoe
Left the gate open when you returned....
- Location
- West Wales
1300 and rising!
Had a nice day of 72, followed by a few high 60’s then been down to a consistent 30-40 a day for a few weeks now which is annoying as we’d rather more days of 60’s while we’d staffed for it, this did mean we could muck out more often and trim backsides on all the ewes sooner while we had the staff so save doing the backsides now..
- Location
- West Wales
Lamb tired in a nutshell.
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
Old Boar
Member
- Location
- West Wales
No, worse than that I am afraid.
I tipped the invisible nuts into the trough....
there is no hope...
I tipped the invisible nuts into the trough....
there is no hope...
I thought you'd have put the bucket down and gone back to get some nutsNo, worse than that I am afraid.
I tipped the invisible nuts into the trough....
there is no hope...
- Location
- West Wales
I thought you'd have put the bucket down and gone back to get some nuts
I would have kicked the bucket!
were the sheep really happy to be fed ?No, worse than that I am afraid.
I tipped the invisible nuts into the trough....
there is no hope...
Old Boar
Member
- Location
- West Wales
They rushed up to the troughs and looked. Then all started hurling abuse at me!
LOUDLY!
LOUDLY!
don't blame themThey rushed up to the troughs and looked. Then all started hurling abuse at me!
LOUDLY!
CopperBeech
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- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Fell asleep driving and went through a hedge. Scary.
- Location
- West Wales
Hope you were ok! I’ve had it happen a few times carting silage and luckily woken half way up a hedge
CopperBeech
Member
- Location
- A Welsh man lost in England
Hope you were ok! I’ve had it happen a few times carting silage and luckily woken half way up a hedge
Truck is an auto, so my foot came off and I just coasted into the hedge, better that way than across the road.
Will be very glad to see the back of the indoor lambers and the sh!t weather for the outdoor lot, then it should be back to relatively plain sailing.