This farming life

[Bob the beef]

@CopperBeech do yourself a favor and don’t watch it. There’s a twit on the with some rare breed horses who is trying to save the breed, one (the best apparently) couldn’t rear a foul because she was no use, so what do they do, flush her and implant into another mare. At that point I turned it off and thought surly people can’t be this stupid!

I understand your frustration at this sort of thing, and would generally completely agree, but the Blacks are very good farmers and well respected stocksmen, who would only do something like this for a very good reason.

 

[Estate fencing.]

I understand your frustration at this sort of thing, and would generally completely agree, but the Blacks are very good farmers and well respected stocksmen, who would only do something like this for a very good reason.

Maybe came across wrong in the program, but to me the came across as typical showmen and pissing about with a few horses. I'm very anti breeding unfunctional stock for peoples ego, if the horse can't breed naturally surely it should be shot not used to breed future stock especially as there a so few of them and one mare would cause a massive difference.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Maybe came across wrong in the program, but to me the came across as typical showmen and pissing about with a few horses. I'm very anti breeding unfunctional stock for peoples ego, if the horse can't breed naturally surely it should be shot not used to breed future stock especially as there a so few of them and one mare would cause a massive difference.

Get what your saying, think the argument with rare/endangered breeds is you can breed out faults/problems in the future but not if the breeds died out which can mean breeding from animals that maybe have faults. Not as bad IMO as paying 50 grand for that tup

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

Get what your saying, think the argument with rare/endangered breeds is you can breed out faults/problems in the future but not if the breeds died out which can mean breeding from animals that maybe have faults. Not as bad IMO as paying 50 grand for that tup

Bonkers money for that.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Get what your saying, think the argument with rare/endangered breeds is you can breed out faults/problems in the future but not if the breeds died out which can mean breeding from animals that maybe have faults. Not as bad IMO as paying 50 grand for that tup

I haven’t seen that one. Was it’s a big headed, big legged useless Suffolk?

 

[neilo]

Maybe came across wrong in the program, but to me the came across as typical showmen and pissing about with a few horses. I'm very anti breeding unfunctional stock for peoples ego, if the horse can't breed naturally surely it should be shot not used to breed future stock especially as there a so few of them and one mare would cause a massive difference.

Would that not depend on the reason she couldn’t breed naturally?

Not everything is genetic.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

I haven’t seen that one. Was it’s a big headed, big legged useless Suffolk?

 

[M-J-G]

I must be the only person who finds it a bit lame I’d like to see done innovative and interesting farmers doing forward thinking stuff. Not just yer more media savvy, fame hungry, book writing, product endorsing types. You got a big new tenancy quickly and easily ..... what a massive surprise Welcome to the pantomime of Instagram friendly British farming.

You do realise that the person who got the tenancy on the island had lived on a pretty run down farm, off grid by herself for quite a long time before meeting Euan. Contract shepherding and doing any other bits of work she could to get a business built up from scratch

She didnt get a tenancy because of a TV programme or her books, more that she has alternative sources of income like books and getting good money for dogs so they know she'll have a chance to have the money to pay the rent.
As for you thinking it happened quickly, that wrong, she'd been looking for a bigger farm since about 2013 and had applied for a lot of farms in that time,

Do you really think a programme about progressive shedding, recorded, rotationally grazed farmers is what the average viewer wants?
If it was, they'd be on all the time!

 

[M-J-G]

@CopperBeech do yourself a favor and don’t watch it. There’s a twit on the with some rare breed horses who is trying to save the breed, one (the best apparently) couldn’t rear a foul because she was no use, so what do they do, flush her and implant into another mare. At that point I turned it off and thought surly people can’t be this stupid!

A twit?
I can assure you that the Blacks are not twits, they are good honest folks, and they run a good operation, because they have a passion for the horses they keep as a hobby is simply the part of their lives that the producers have latched onto.

 

[Estate fencing.]

A twit?
I can assure you that he Blacks are not twits, they are good honest folks, and they run a good operation, because they have a passion for the horses they keep as a hobby is simply the part of their lives that the producers have latched onto.

I didn’t actually call him a twit! As an outsider he can across as someone arsing about with a few horses.

 

[M-J-G]

I didn’t actually call him a twit! As an outsider he can across as someone arsing about with a few horses.

It seems rather like you did

 

[Jrp221]

I just seen on Emma Gray's Instagram that someone has reported her to the police for allowing their child to be on the quad with them (wearing a helmet). They will have been reported by:
a)Someone with a serious case of sour grapes
B)Someone with absolutely nothing going on with their lives.

It's makes you wonder what exactly they are supposed to film and whether it's even worth putting yourself out there for these programmes in the first place.

I know we all have our own personnel opinion on kids on quads/farms and in these programmes there are some H&S moments that make you wince but it's still there personnel choice on their own farm.

They haven't complained about the child driving the Gator on the lane/road on the farm in the first episode?

 

[Holsteinfriesian90]

You do realise that the person who got the tenancy on the island had lived on a pretty run down farm, off grid by herself for quite a long time before meeting Euan. Contract shepherding and doing any other bits of work she could to get a business built up from scratch

She didnt get a tenancy because of a TV programme or her books, more that she has alternative sources of income like books and getting good money for dogs so they know she'll have a chance to have the money to pay the rent.
As for you thinking it happened quickly, that wrong, she'd been looking for a bigger farm since about 2013 and had applied for a lot of farms in that time,

Do you really think a programme about progressive shedding, recorded, rotationally grazed farmers is what the average viewer wants?
If it was, they'd be on all the time!

I really take my hat off to Emma and Euan they work hard and have built up a good business without the backing of anyone else.

 

[7610 super q]

It seems rather like you did View attachment 1020628

Hate to break up the pendanticide party, but I think the forum swear filter turns the word twaaaat into twit.

 

[M-J-G]

Hate to break up the pendanticide party, but I think the forum swear filter turns the word twaaaat into twit.

Firstly I have no idea what pendanticide means let alone attend a party for one, but anyhow.

I'd really hope that wasn't what was intended as that would be an even more unfair classification for a very nice family.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Firstly I have no idea what pendanticide means let alone attend a party for one, but anyhow.

I'd really hope that wasn't what was intended as that would be an even more unfair classification for a very nice family.

Any ways that's my opinion about the bloke. I like Emma gray she is putting the work in to get where she want, also that lad from Orkney (cammeys mate) he's good and a hell of a shearer.

 

[S J H]

Any ways that's my opinion about the bloke. I like Emma gray she is putting the work in to get where she want, also that lad from Orkney (cammeys mate) he's good and a hell of a shearer.

If he can afford a fifty grand tup, I'm sure they're doing something right.

Very smart place aswell, it's nice to see someone doing well rather than talking the job down.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

If he can afford a fifty grand tup, I'm sure they're doing something right.

Very smart place aswell, it's nice to see someone doing well rather than talking the job down.

Think the TUP was a three way split

 

[betweenthelines]

New series BBC 2 7pm Sunday

 

[Highland Mule]

New series BBC 2 7pm Sunday

Series 5 according to my schedule - think that's a repeat from last November.