Sunday morning sinking feeling !

Hampton

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BASIS
Location
Shropshire
Know the feeling. Ours got out of the shed into the forestry commission plantation. Went round to bed them up and shed empty. Sinking feeling. I remember turning the bedding over with my fork to see if they were under the straw I was in such disbelief. Got them back in by a miracle but they went through several fences on the way as if they weren’t there. Only stopped them by running round the last paddock with some leccy while they were against the side with a hedge. Once they’d had a belt or two they stayed put. Lim X that hadn’t been out before. Mental.
A neighbour used to bring lim stores down from Scotland for summer grazing. These were the type that has never seen people and he turned them out.
24 hours later another neighbour had a big celebration party and a large fire works display.
Cattle bolted, crossed the river 4 times over the course of the summer and ended up scattered around the countryside. 12 months later he still had one roaming the countryside and being an Agronomist I was walking OSR for dedicating at the end of June when this 600kg wild steer got up from under my feet like a hare and bolted down a tramline at about 30mph.
It was serious brown trouser time.
We finally caught it when it got in with our grazing cattle and followed them into a building, 16 months after they turned up!
 

sheepwise

Member
Location
SW Scotland
Brother got a phone call from local hospital to ask if they were his sheep grazing the hospital grounds as they had been told he had the field nearby. So he goes down and puts dog round the 6 ewes grazing grass at side of main hospital building. The ewes ran into side of building which he thought was quite handy as he could walk them up to where his jeep and trailer were and load them at back of building. However, what he didn't account for was them passing a set of automatic doors which obviously opened as the sheep approached. The sheep proceeded to go in through the doors and into the building with the collie in pursuit. Six set of doors they went through before he could stop them just below the sign that said morgue! Needless to say the staff looked on in bemusement as he walked them back along the corridors carefully picking up a few dollops of sheep sh!t as he went.
 

Yonlass

Member
Neighbour rang me on Tuesday night to say he'd turned some stock out and one of his suckler calves had cleared the fence into our wood, and would I look out for it?
I'm checking the sheep an hour later, and spots the offender in our mowing ground. A few fences later, and I have her back in the wood. So I thought I'd finish the job and drive her up the other side. But it turned on me. So there's me, stuck behind a tree, with an irate stirk coming at me whenever I stuck my head out 🙄
Backup arrived, but we had to give it up as a bad job an hour and a half later when it kept turning round and coming for us
No sign of it the day after, but the day after it resurfaced in the field next to it's mother 🙄
 

micthwic

Member
Many years ago, sunday afternoon, august bank holiday w/e, in bed with mrs,phone goes, neighbour Dickie "have you lost a pig?". Me dunno. Dickie"well it was heading for the beach"
Thats real fun on Poppit beach getting that slag back.
 

AftonShepherd

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Ayrshire
Brother got a phone call from local hospital to ask if they were his sheep grazing the hospital grounds as they had been told he had the field nearby. So he goes down and puts dog round the 6 ewes grazing grass at side of main hospital building. The ewes ran into side of building which he thought was quite handy as he could walk them up to where his jeep and trailer were and load them at back of building. However, what he didn't account for was them passing a set of automatic doors which obviously opened as the sheep approached. The sheep proceeded to go in through the doors and into the building with the collie in pursuit. Six set of doors they went through before he could stop them just below the sign that said morgue! Needless to say the staff looked on in bemusement as he walked them back along the corridors carefully picking up a few dollops of sheep sh!t as he went.
I believed that until you said that he picked up the sheep sh!t! 🤣
 
I once sent a lad to top some Summer keep that was a few miles away. The ground was on two sides of a valley, with a brook in the valley bottom. Come lunchtime, he went to the shop on the tractor leaving the gate open. On his return he found 26 big bullocks had crossed the brook ,coming up the side where he had been topping and were romping round in the formerly immaculate garden of an adjacent bungalow. :eek::eek::eek:.
Deservedly, ( I thought,) he caught the worst of the bungalow's owners anger, and the insurance company sorted out the mess.
 

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
Used to work in a building many years ago that was surrounded by farmland and sometimes sheep would appear wandering about the car park, followed five minutes later by a security guard waving his arms about. The guard would stick his head through the door and ask if I was up to catching some sheep ? I later found out that the reason I was chosen was that the first time it happened they had got the sheep back through the fence, but had no means of closing the gap and a guard had to remain there until the farmer turned up. I, on the other hand had a knife and "special string" (baler twine) to tie the fence up. :D
 

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
An acquaintance who kept a few cattle had a high powered business job. About to go into a business meeting, he had a call from his mother to say the cattle had got out. He told his secretary to make some excuse for him and shot off home. Arriving back at the office, his secretary blocked the door and told him he couldn't go in dressed like that. He was still wearing his suit but had forgot about his wellies.
 

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