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Double Theaves?
Can someone please define what a double theave is please? Thanks!thefarmingforum.co.uk
For all those who don’t come from the same village as @Electricfencer. Might be better to use proper words, rather than highly regionalised slang...
His Double Theaves are someone else's Twinters.
That’s what everyone calls a second crop ewe around here. This forum is full of regional terms you ignorant twit!Double Theaves?
Can someone please define what a double theave is please? Thanks!
For all those who don’t come from the same village as @Electricfencer. Might be better to use proper words, rather than highly regionalised slang...
ahh yes but no but yes,what if they lambed as a ewe lamb/gimmer lamb etc then they would be 3rd crop and you would be misleading me,so is she a 4tooth?? but then she might have been late putting all her teeth up,so there not all showing,hell she could be full coming broke....... need to know what year she was born
3 year old ewes this spring then. Much easier to call them double the theaves than that. Thame sheep fair has plenty of double theaves sold there, so it a regional term. I don’t up north And complain that I don’t understand what a gimmer is.
- Location
- South east scotland
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
259 Easycares and Tex/Easycares, mixed ages:
18 empty
52 singles
173 twins
15 triplets
1 quad
173%
60 hoggs:
17 empty
35 singles
8 twins
85%
Most of the empty ewes from one tupping group, mostly 6/7yo ewes some of which were marginal to keep but I wanted to give them a chance to run again with the same shedding Texel tup as I'd been impressed with the lambs. Noticed a few returns at tupping time. Not sure whether it's been a bridge too far for some old dears or tup has been at fault.
12% up on last year and 22% up on the very disappointing 2018 scan ?. Ewes in good form too. Just need some decent lambing weather now!
18 empty
52 singles
173 twins
15 triplets
1 quad
173%
60 hoggs:
17 empty
35 singles
8 twins
85%
Most of the empty ewes from one tupping group, mostly 6/7yo ewes some of which were marginal to keep but I wanted to give them a chance to run again with the same shedding Texel tup as I'd been impressed with the lambs. Noticed a few returns at tupping time. Not sure whether it's been a bridge too far for some old dears or tup has been at fault.
12% up on last year and 22% up on the very disappointing 2018 scan ?. Ewes in good form too. Just need some decent lambing weather now!
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Coming up with that lot, have you had a couple of dibbles yourself??
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
You’re right, I was ignorant to the exact meaning, but given there isn’t one and different folks use the term for different things (as evidenced in this thread and the one I linked), then we are all equally ignorant.
I googled, and that’s why I wrote what I did. Obviously touched a nerve.
I use the words of my heritage all the time, and also use a hell of a lot of industry jargon that few on here would understand. I try to keep communication on an international forum as free of it as I can though, for reasons which should be obvious.
There’s a few phrases that get used around here when the jobs going wrong I bet you’d all understand!!??
muleman
Member
2 shearsDouble Theaves?
Can someone please define what a double theave is please? Thanks!
For all those who don’t come from the same village as @Electricfencer. Might be better to use proper words, rather than highly regionalised slang...
Whitby.2008
Member
422mixture of mule and tex x scanned at 202% consisting of
8 geld
4 quad
79 trips
280 twins
51 singles
Pleased with that, definatly don’t want any more trips
8 geld
4 quad
79 trips
280 twins
51 singles
Pleased with that, definatly don’t want any more trips
- Location
- South east scotland
I wish
- Location
- Bedfordshire
After a disaster last year, I was happy on Friday. Can't really make out the difference, we didn't have loads of grass at tupping, I did worm and fluke at tupping, bolused about 250 of them and marked the ones that didn't, but it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference.
0- 5
1- 65
2- 174
3- 24
Total- 269 / 180%
Hoggs-
0- 14
1- 54
2- 8
Total- 76 / 92%
0- 5
1- 65
2- 174
3- 24
Total- 269 / 180%
Hoggs-
0- 14
1- 54
2- 8
Total- 76 / 92%
- Location
- Fife
Similar to a teg, a gimmer, a theave, a shearling, a yearling and a 2 tooth I believe.whats a hogg is that like a pig?
everydays a school day,are you sure its not a ewe lamb
- Location
- North Antrim
Geld, that's easy, it's yell.What the hell is geld!
- Location
- Fife
everydays a school day,are you sure its not a ewe lamb
Nope. I’m not sure of anything anymore.