Sheep checking.

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!

FILs response to anyone telling him "there's one of your sheep out in the wood"

"Does it have it's gob with it?"

"What?"

"Does it have it's gob with it!?"

"Well yes, I suppose it does"

"It'll be fine then"
 

digger64

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Should of told him to let the fcker die.
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I didnt give him any thing and there was an atmosphere after for quite a while , as I knew he would always be around , sad that he tried it on and showed his true colours as I usually do show my gratitude some how or other.
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
I didnt give him any thing and there was an atmosphere after for quite a while , as I knew he would always be around , sad that he tried it on and showed his true colours as I usually do show my gratitude some how or other.
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You could have asked him to show you which one the next day.
 

digger64

Member
I didnt give him any thing and there was an atmosphere after for quite a while , as I knew he would always be around , sad that he tried it on and showed his true colours as I usually do show my gratitude some how or other.
You could have asked him to show you which one the next day.
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One of those situations that you cant win whatever you do , I found it quite stressful to be honest
 
I checked ours early afternoon in the summer, all good. About 2 hours later I had a call off a neighbour who had seen a cast ewe, he can't access our land due to being in his 70's and 2 fences and a dyke separating the two farms, or he'd be righting our sheep himself! Regardless of how often you check, you are never going to be there when some thing goes wrong!
 
I checked ours early afternoon in the summer, all good. About 2 hours later I had a call off a neighbour who had seen a cast ewe, he can't access our land due to being in his 70's and 2 fences and a dyke separating the two farms, or he'd be righting our sheep himself! Regardless of how often you check, you are never going to be there when some thing goes wrong!
wife just got back this morning, not even a sip of tea, phone goes cast ewe. 3hrs max, bloody sheep!
 

Al R

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Over 100 fields here with footpaths, I think maybe 8/9 without any footpaths. Every gate also has string on it to loop over to keep it closed as a secondary latch and if big groups of ewes next to each other the gates get chained or tied at the bottom too.
don’t often get people turning up but I did have a lamb brought into me 2 years ago they said it was starving etc... I knew which one the mother was, welsh ewe, to long with human contact and she wouldn’t take it back :mad::finger:
 

JSmith

Member
Livestock Farmer
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!!!
I just giv’em the mrs number, she loves it??
 

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