TexX ewes - which Tup to use?

[primmiemoo]

(They have nice noses. Never scoff at an aquiline profile.)

 

[yellowbelly]

(They have nice noses.

Noses and chins.......

.............i'm beginning to think you've got a bit of a fetish thing developing

 

[abitdaft]

Not much more lambed today... nothing in the TexX's today. There were 3 pairs in the hill ewes and a single. 2 more pair in the other commercials and 3 or 4 singles...

Weather has been nice today - except a really heavy (but very warm) downpour at 6pm as I was doing last rounds.


Not sure if any of you remember, but last lambing I bought a tub of this stuff
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I bought it well into lambing I think, and it seemed good at the time but I don't think I got full benefit from it. I do remember wondering if I had been sucked in by good advertising.

I suffer with the backs of my hands and wrists drying out quite badly at lambing - just the constant wet-dry and blood/cleanings stuck on them and wind chill on the bike with sleeves rolled up in all weather which all just sucks the natural moisture from your skin. They then get itchy and I scratch, they bleed and it becomes a vicious circle...
I had Attrixo hand cream and E45 lotion I've used before and both were OK - Attrixo the better of the 2 - but skin still took a beating.

This year since the first day of lambing I've used the O'Keeffe's, once a day before going to bed. Working it into my hands wrists and halfway up to my elbows... this stuff isn't OK. It's bloody good!! My hands are usually getting in a mess by now but they are still in perfect condition!

Not sure if I'm using a bit too much or its just how the cream is... but once it's absorbed in and dry, I can still feel it on my skin. It doesn't rub off onto bed sheets or anything - that I've noticed! and I can still feel it there on my hands in the morning. But if that's how it works I'm not complaining!

Can't recommend it highly enough if any of you suffer like I do with dry or cracking skin


(sorry @primmiemoo no chin, just my hand for you to look at this time)

Ooh! A facial and a manicure, foot shears out next?

 

[Nithsdale]

Ooh! A facial and a manicure, foot shears out next?

Ummmm


Could feel a bit of an ingrown toenail nail starting yesterday do howk'd it out last night


Does that count??

 

[abitdaft]

Ummmm


Could feel a bit of an ingrown toenail nail starting yesterday do howk'd it out last night


Does that count??

Only if you spray it with terramycin or run through formalin! As an aside, my husband had a foot issue and he sprayed terramcin on it ( his sis is a podiatrist, you can imagine the fallout). Wonder if any non Scot's get the howk'd word

 

[Nithsdale]

Look nice things. Your lleyns must be nice looking sheep.

I think some lleyns look right depressed putting that look into their lambs too.

The gimmers, last August before going into the flock

Hill ewes, run up to lambing last year, in the Beast

Hill ewes in for Fluke dose IIRC September or October 2016 (one of my favourite pictures)

 

[yellowbelly]

Wonder if any non Scot's get the howk'd word

I think we maybe do - but might spell it "hoiked"

 

[abitdaft]

I think we maybe do - but might spell it "hoiked"

Howk'd means pulled out pretty much.

 

[Nithsdale]

Only if you spray it with terramycin or run through formalin! As an aside, my husband had a foot issue and he sprayed terramcin on it ( his sis is a podiatrist, you can imagine the fallout). Wonder if any non Scot's get the howk'd word

I've done the purple spray before!!


I had bad bother a few years ago so set to it, it was pretty bad getting so I made a wee bit of a mess. The ex was a farm vet, I thought she would appreciate my attention to care spraying my big toe oh how wrong was I

 

[yellowbelly]

Howk'd means pulled out pretty much.

We hoik things out down here too

 

[abitdaft]

I've done the purple spray before!!


I had bad bother a few years ago so set to it, it was pretty bad getting so I made a wee bit of a mess. The ex was a farm vet, I thought she would appreciate my attention to care spraying my big toe oh how wrong was I

Worst I have ever seen was hubby with toothache over a weekend, spanners etc were involved. When he went to the dentist on the Monday, she remarked on the scrapes on his tooth and he had to confess that he had attempted to pull it out himself, he reply was " Take it you're a farmer ?"

 

[hendrebc]

I've been using terramycin spray on cuts (including ingrown toenails!) for such a long time I assumed it was normal until I met my wife and she said I was mental for even considering it
Changed to using iodine thinking that was normal too but apparently not
So now I just leave things and they take longer to get better if they get infected, which didn't happen before, so I'm not sure how that is better

 

[Nithsdale]

I've been using terramycin spray on cuts (including ingrown toenails!) for such a long time I assumed it was normal until I met my wife and she said I was mental for even considering it
Changed to using iodine thinking that was normal too but apparently not
So now I just leave things and they take longer to get better if they get infected, which didn't happen before, so I'm not sure how that is better

Iodine

I took a lot of skin off my fingers on string a few lambings back. It wasn't really bleeding but it was that very wet not nice way... didn't fancy it being like that if I had to lamb something. I was in the sheep pebs in the shed so grabbed the iodine spray on the way past and sprayed my hand! I nearly passed out with the pain




I once nearly ripped a finger nail off... I poured a couple mls of Pen&Strep into the wound and onto the padded bit on a big plaster it healed up well

 

[abitdaft]

A few years back l ripped my hand open on barb, thought that iodine would be a good idea

 

[abitdaft]

A few years back l ripped my hand open on barb, thought that iodine would be a good idea

Also, for anyone wearing a ring,suc s as a wedding ring, it will turn black if iodine gets on it.

 

[hendrebc]

Iodine isn't great is it
Works pretty well though for stopping things getting infected I find. And it usually gets on your hands anyway
I haven't used pen strep on myself but have used a bit of alamycin on a cut that was going a bit bad. It dries almost clear so no one can see it on your hands and tell you your mental like they do with blue spray

 

[Nithsdale]

Just look at the thousands ££££ we have saved the country by not using our GPs

 

[hendrebc]

Just look at the thousands ££££ we have saved the country by not using our GPs

I think we'd make great doctors. Blue spray and pen strep fixes everything so if that won't cure them they're f**ked anyway

 

[primmiemoo]

Noses and chins.......

.............i'm beginning to think you've got a bit of a fetish thing developing

Sorry to disappoint, but I was in fact thinking about the lambs

 

[Nithsdale]

Great morning! Heavy dew, but lovely and warm... very thick fog first thing though, couldn't see much more than 100ft.

Nothing in the TexX's, again... 4 pairs and a single in the commercials - and a dead pair (first drowned in the bag, 2nd looked slightly rotten) last night there was a lamb - a single, a few days old and has rubber bands on, bothering a new born twin looking for it's mum... absolutely nothing showing any signs of looking for a lamb. Lifted it and took it 100yds down the field to get it away from the ewe with young lambs, dropped it off in amongst lots of other ewes... It was bleating away so thought mum will find it. First thing this morning the lamb is back with the ewe and twins from last night. Still no ewe looking for a lamb with the ewe and dead twins in the trailer I contemplated the situation for a bit... lifted the lost lamb. It's now wet fostered onto the ewe. I'm not happy it's mum has abandoned it I will find her and I will cull her.

4 pairs and a single in the hill ewes, no dramas