This Farming Life

[Hilly]

QUOTE="taff, post: 2261684, member: 18876"]Getting a bit bored with the limo lot!

I'm not. That's not my breed of cattle or my farming system but I'm enjoying watching them at theirs. Martin and Mel are straightforward , honest and likeable to camera.

I enjoy the whole show but I think them , Sybil and George , and Anne and Bobby come across particularly well. Normal people doing pretty normal farming. We've been spoilt for good programmes about farming recently.[/QUOTE]




Did i hear correctly that sybil and george farm 15000 acres ? i agree i look forward to sybil george Anne and Bobby bits, it more realistic/normal.

 

[tinsheet]

Been nice if a dairy farm was included in the show.

 

[JP1]

I don't think the size of calf was all the bull's fault. The cow wasn't suckling a calf all summer and was done too well. She got fat and put a lot into the next calf.

As regards a camera crew, no, some jobs are stressful enough without worrying about them getting in the way.

I reckon there are some very talented camera crews now who wouldn't get in the way - a great skill that is often put to good use in the opposite way whereby you forget they are there and you let rip !

 

[Ysgythan]

Been nice if a dairy farm was included in the show.

Jimmy Warnock.

 

[CharcoalWally]

I'm not. That's not my breed of cattle or my farming system but I'm enjoying watching them at theirs. Martin and Mel are straightforward , honest and likeable to camera.

I enjoy the whole show but I think them , Sybil and George , and Anne and Bobby come across particularly well. Normal people doing pretty normal farming. We've been spoilt for good programmes about farming recently.

Did i hear correctly that sybil and george farm 15000 acres ? i agree i look forward to sybil george Anne and Bobby bits, it more realistic/normal.[/QUOTE]
Aye , I think that's right. 2000 sheep on 15000 acres at dalmally. Rough , wet country when the weather's wrong. Stunning scenery in Summer sun.

I was at Dalmally Fair watching the suckled calves sold last July 31st. What a bloody awful day for rain. A vision of Hell on a day like that. Hats off to all the people who farm those hills. Not everybody could do it.

 

[Hilly]

Did i hear correctly that sybil and george farm 15000 acres ? i agree i look forward to sybil george Anne and Bobby bits, it more realistic/normal.

Aye , I think that's right. 2000 sheep on 15000 acres at dalmally. Rough , wet country when the weather's wrong. Stunning scenery in Summer sun.

I was at Dalmally Fair watching the suckled calves sold last July 31st. What a bloody awful day for rain. A vision of Hell on a day like that. Hats off to all the people who farm those hills. Not everybody could do it.[/QUOTE]


They will get a canny cheque of the government mind lfa and sfp on 15k acres ! kill the pain a bit ! might go on rent who knows.

 

[Henarar]

I really thought jumbo wasn't going to make it, he did thoughbut another two didn't

I thought Limmys were meant to calve easy ?
I thought that was the point of them

 

[Juggler]

I thought Limmys were meant to calve easy ?
I thought that was the point of them

They certainly used to, and that was one of their marketing points, been losing sight of that trait in pursuit of muscle for a while now, at the top end anyway...I'm sure a 'normal' Lim calves just fine.

Great series, well done to all involved, nice to see farming programmes on a channel other than S4C!

 

[Janovich]

It's been a good watch over the episodes, great to see some real day to day farming going on..

 

[Henarar]

They certainly used to, and that was one of their marketing points, been losing sight of that trait in pursuit of muscle for a while now, at the top end anyway...I'm sure a 'normal' Lim calves just fine.

Great series, well done to all involved, nice to see farming programmes on a channel other than S4C!

I have only seen a bit of the one last night and the night before, so he had 1 nearly dead and two dead ones ? out of how many ?

 

[Ysgythan]

Did i hear correctly that sybil and george farm 15000 acres ? i agree i look forward to sybil george Anne and Bobby bits, it more realistic/normal.

Aye , I think that's right. 2000 sheep on 15000 acres at dalmally. Rough , wet country when the weather's wrong. Stunning scenery in Summer sun.

I was at Dalmally Fair watching the suckled calves sold last July 31st. What a bloody awful day for rain. A vision of Hell on a day like that. Hats off to all the people who farm those hills. Not everybody could do it.[/QUOTE]

Reckon a wet, high, or sloped farm (or all three) requires you to be born into it.

 

[Juggler]

I have only seen a bit of the one last night and the night before, so he had 1 nearly dead and two dead ones ? out of how many ?

I seem to remember them saying herd of 168 limousins? But they keep quoting 60 odd calves so not sure.

 

[jamesy]

Would the 168 be animals in herd ie cows, calfs, yearlings etc

 

[Sandpit Farm]

That Simmental calf of Sybils that they kept at the farm for the winter (as the cow calved out of sync) - That was a cracking calf!!

 

[M-J-G]

I have only seen a bit of the one last night and the night before, so he had 1 nearly dead and two dead ones ? out of how many ?

You only get to see a small snapshot though.

I had 3 dead calves here in two days this year, with calving season being perfectly normal before and since. If a film crew had been here on those couple of days it would have looked bad, and every other day would have given the false impression of perfection.

None of us are immune from an unlucky day or two. You get the reality of that when you are in the middle of a few of them.

 

[M-J-G]

I have really enjoyed the series, and admire the honesty and openness of the farmers and crofters who have shown the ups and downs of their farming lives.

 

[M-J-G]

The owner has nothing but bad luck when there's a camera present.

...unlike Captain Wow up in the North - he can do no wrong

 

[Dave6170]

Captain wow gets brought back down to earth tonight by the looks of it.

 

[GenuineRisk]

I don't quite get why the commentator was saying only 5 years old either re the Lim cow... Wasn't she called Duchess ? Which would make her at least 7 if filmed winter 2014/15 if not 8.

 

[caveman]

I don't quite get why the commentator was saying only 5 years old either re the Lim cow... Wasn't she called Duchess ? Which would make her at least 7 if filmed winter 2014/15 if not 8.

E, F, G, H, J........ Five years.
Given the calves were "J's".....
Maybe "I" isn't used due to throwback to tattoo days?