This Farming Life

[Chae1]

Probably comes with keeping Blondes

Thats the Irish chap that was at Balmoral.

 

[CharcoalWally]

When lambing outside why would you put sheep in such a large field, I would fence it off into small paddocks make catching that sheep a lot easier,

Roll on later in the year for the next episodes

Do you mean Raymond or the Budge girls?

If lambing in a bigger field then good dog/dogs and a corral system leading to a few small pens make life easier.

My old dog from a few years ago was a dab hand at grabbing a ewe against the fence and holding her for the shepherd to catch. He was a big, powerful, heavy dog and he would anchor himself against them. Lambing time was he only time he would do it as well. He would catch a ewe without being told, but at any other time of year I'd have to tell him to catch a ewe.

 

[top char]

now never said anything about putting that amount of stock in one field, smaller paddocks stocked with a more manageable number, less stress on the farmer for a start and most important less stress on the ewe and her lambs.

I know it's how it's done and works, I will leave it at that

Everyone up here that has big hill flocks, their fields are just flooded with sheep come lambing time when they are all home onto grass, ideal scenario would be what your suggesting, but if they were spread out there would never be a clean field on the place with a fresh bite for them.

You should see the fert applications to keep them going in May until everything is away to the hill again!

 

[Sharpy]

The Shetland lasses are doing a grand job, hard going on the island, I think they have our old class combine saw it in the background we shipped it there over 15 years ago,
Raymond could have his own daytime show he is right laugh,

When lambing outside why would you put sheep in such a large field, I would fence it off into small paddocks make catching that sheep a lot easier,

Roll on later in the year for the next episodes

Pretty sure they don't lamb a high percentage of the ewes, as opposed to many lowland flocks that will intervene in over half. Also pretty sure that a lot of their ground is hill so not so many fields to mess around with. They could do with a catching dog all the same, it would make life easier

 

[Top Tip.]

I’m west and I can’t.

You will be north of Inverness,I think it is south of Inverness how far down i am not sure.

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Why are Raymond’s black nose sheep worth so much money?

 

[Highland Mule]

You will be north of Inverness,I think it is south of Inverness how far down i am not sure.

I'm south of Inverness, and also west of the A9.

 

[Highland Mule]

Why are Raymond’s black nose sheep worth so much money?

Fashion

 

[kill]

Why are Raymond’s black nose sheep worth so much money?

Because he's bright enough to ask a reasonable price instead of giving his sheep away for £50 each and they are something a little different

 

[Highland Mule]

Because he's bright enough to ask a reasonable price instead of giving his sheep away for £50 each and they are something a little different

Exactly - he's selling a householder a pet, and not selling a butcher a commodity.

 

[beltbreaker]

Areas still ablea to bury, North of the Kessock Bridge and West of the Great glen to the bottom of Loch Ness over to A9 until Drumochter skirts Perthshire and Central but takes in Argyll and Bute and the Islands. It's done by parish boundaries.

Cheers BB

 

[Henarar]

Exactly - he's selling a householder a pet, and not selling a butcher a commodity.

isn't the wool worth a lot ? I seem to remember they said it was

 

[Willie adie]

The lassies in shetland have a hard yoke, they could maybe set up hurdles at right angles to fence sides to make catching sheep easier

 

[Cowcalf]

reckon a leg cleek or better still a decent dog would make life easier

 

[Highland Mule]

isn't the wool worth a lot ? I seem to remember they said it was

£25 a fleece retail, so about three times that for a Jacob, perhaps?

 

[glensman]

reckon a leg cleek or better still a decent dog would make life easier

I think they were using a dog to catch.

 

[Bogeyman]

Anyone know when next episode as it was just by chance we caught it ?

 

[david]

Anyone know when next episode as it was just by chance we caught it ?

That was the last one in the current 'series', but the summer and autumn episodes are to be shown later this year.

You need to go onto BBC iPlayer to get the previous 5 episodes - all of them are worth watching.

 

[Cowcalf]

I think they were using a dog to catch.

ay but theres dogs and dogs

 

[dubs]

is Raymond's father and Martan father brothers ?