Sheep checking.

[paul&mandy]

You mean there are people who see a cast sheep and don't roll it back over?

Weirdos.

Yep, I tip other peoples over if i see them. Remember trudging over a turnip field on route to inlaws 70 miles away to upright a sheep.

 

[JSmith]

Some people take it too far though... trading standards rang one evening in the summer to tell me there was a ewe in the canal and the rspca were there who had rang a vet, the police and the fire brigade!! I got there ASAP an parked in the street was 3 fire engines a fast response unit, the boat and a ambulance! Turns out a woman had seen it an phoned her dad who came out to get it an promptly fell in himself??

 

[JeepJeep]

I dont farm , But Ive uprighted a few behind the house over the years... It's not rocket science ro know thats it's not right for em to be on their back pedaling air. It wont breathe fire at you either when you get to it.

 

[Bury the Trash]

It's surely too dark at 6.30 to check sheep???

Torch, until the sun comes up .

 

[Enfoff]

Some people take it too far though... trading standards rang one evening in the summer to tell me there was a ewe in the canal and the rspca were there who had rang a vet, the police and the fire brigade!! I got there ASAP an parked in the street was 3 fire engines a fast response unit, the boat and a ambulance! Turns out a woman had seen it an phoned her dad who came out to get it an promptly fell in himself??

I got a call from my landlord to say someone had been onto him to say there was a ewe which had been hit by a car on a busy A road where his field was. They were going to call the RSPCA but my LL said he would call me first. Good job too because the 'ewe' was actually a roll of loft insulation which had presumably blow out of a vehicle.

 

[Woolless]

You mean there are people who see a cast sheep and don't roll it back over?

Weirdos.

Oh, I don't know. Tipped one of my neighbours ewes back on her feet the other day and got my town shoes covered in s5ite!

 

[neilo]

Are there any tame dog walkers that you see regularly on your rounds, that you might give a phone number to, in case they see anything untoward?

I made the mistake of letting a pleasant enough lady, who’s house backed onto one of my fields, have my number. She was apparently the widow of a retired farmer, and seemed sensible enough.
She has since rung me several times a year, whenever the sheep are (briefly) in the 3ac field behind her house. The last time was to alert me to one of the lambs that was poorly as it had blackleg (it was born with A black leg!). She has now given my mobile number to the nice chap 2 doors down, who has rung up every time the ewes & lambs are in the field his house to ask when i’m Going to move them (they are in a mob of 200 ewes with twin lambs rotating round small fields fairly rapidly), as there is ‘a’ lamb making a lot of noise every night as it’s clearly lost it’s mother.?

His number is saved on my phone under ‘Moron from Montgomery’ and I no longer answer it to him. I haven’t given my number to any other well intentioned locals since!

 

[Al R]

I made the mistake of letting a pleasant enough lady, who’s house backed onto one of my fields, have my number. She was apparently the widow of a retired farmer, and seemed sensible enough.
She has since rung me several times a year, whenever the sheep are (briefly) in the 3ac field behind her house. The last time was to alert me to one of the lambs that was poorly as it had blackleg (it was born with A black leg!). She has now given my mobile number to the nice chap 2 doors down, who has rung up every time the ewes & lambs are in the field his house to ask when i’m Going to move them (they are in a mob of 200 ewes with twin lambs rotating round small fields fairly rapidly), as there is ‘a’ lamb making a lot of noise every night as it’s clearly lost it’s mother.?

His number is saved on my phone under ‘Moron from Montgomery’ and I no longer answer it to him. I haven’t given my number to any other well intentioned locals since!

I had thought of putting my number on signs near footpaths I have fields with walkers/sheep in that if there’s a problem to phone but then I thought this scenario may well come up a lot!!!

 

[ARW]

Checked ewes and lambs one night just as it was getting dark, all fine, first light the next day there’s a dead lamb so I pulled him to the gateway to be picked up later in a more suitable vehicle. Got a phone call 10 mins later “there’s a dead lamb in your field, it’s been there all night maybe days! you should check your sheep more we never see you in the field, you have to move dead stock within 24 hours etc”

 

[beardface]

I just try not to take land with or near footpaths anymore not worth the hastle no matter how big a lump or how good the grazing!

 

[devonbrion1998]

I had a voice mail only last week, I got a mob of nearly 60 lambs on Turnips and some busy body left this message, there are some sheep with pooie bums and have I not thought it a good idea to get some soapy water and sponge it off? This may be due to all they have to eat are red onions, how the f**k can you answer to that

 

[neilo]

I just try not to take land with or near footpaths anymore not worth the hastle no matter how big a lump or how good the grazing!

We have lots of footpaths and LOTS of dog walkers from town. Now we’ve got them a bit better trained, only a very small minority cause any bother now. 99.9% will come and tell me if they see a problem, make for constant eyes & ears around to deter pikeys, and have been educated not to interfere with newborn lambs.

Now if I could just persuade the 0.1% to feck off elsewhere, we’ll be getting somewhere.

Clearing up dog poo is another story however, and still a work in progress.

 

[paul&mandy]

Checked ewes and lambs one night just as it was getting dark, all fine, first light the next day there’s a dead lamb so I pulled him to the gateway to be picked up later in a more suitable vehicle. Got a phone call 10 mins later “there’s a dead lamb in your field, it’s been there all night maybe days! you should check your sheep more we never see you in the field, you have to move dead stock within 24 hours etc”

Oh I got the 24hr preach shouted at me. I said your right it's been 30 hrs, 1st time.your probably still in bed and today I'm late as I been electric fencing 1st.

 

[paul&mandy]

I had a voice mail only last week, I got a mob of nearly 60 lambs on Turnips and some busy body left this message, there are some sheep with pooie bums and have I not thought it a good idea to get some soapy water and sponge it off? This may be due to all they have to eat are red onions, how the fudge can you answer to that

Yep been down the they are hungry in a field of rocks before

 

[paul&mandy]

Torch, until the sun comes up .

Found it safer to send the wife round the sheep today. Got 6 led spot beams on the gator. More than good enough to scan round.

 

[TripleSix]

We have a bridleway right across our land, rarely see any horses, rarely see any dog walkers either as we're a long way from town with no parking at either end of the path.

Just the odd groups of ramblers coming through to leave the gates open and mix up the mobs.

Worst ones are the interferers.
"There was a lamb trying to get back through the fence above the track to its mother so we lifted it over for you"

That's great, they're the replacement gimmers that don't have lambs...

 

[neilo]

Found it safer to send the wife round the sheep today. Got 6 led spot beams on the gator. More than good enough to scan round.

I do hope she didn’t park up to closely inspect any animals, with those bright lights shining towards any particular person’s house.....

 

[muleman]

Checked ewes and lambs one night just as it was getting dark, all fine, first light the next day there’s a dead lamb so I pulled him to the gateway to be picked up later in a more suitable vehicle. Got a phone call 10 mins later “there’s a dead lamb in your field, it’s been there all night maybe days! you should check your sheep more we never see you in the field, you have to move dead stock within 24 hours etc”

My neighbor had a walker knock on the door to tell him he had a dead lamb up the field....he just replied...'is there any live uns?' ..... a good response i thought, they never seem to see the good lambs!

 

[digger64]

try in toI check sheep 99% of the time every single day. Just had a barrage of abuse as a ewe cast since yesterday.
Now I checked them at 6.30 but was late today around midday.
I dont think my actions deserved me being shouted at and called cruel.
We got around 3000 sheep and with a lot on electric at the moment its bloody hard work. Ewe in question is fine too.
Almost impossible to farm sheep anymore with all the problems that go with it.
Is it just me?

I remember having a tractor driver on an estate trying to extort cash from me to the value of the sheep he had turned over !

 

[unlacedgecko]

I remember having a tractor driver on an estate trying to extort cash from me to the value of the sheep he had turned over !

Should of told him to let the fcker die.