what grinds your gears

[Oliveau]

Unpacking a delivery to find a neatly printed note at the bottom to the effect that yes, this box does only contain the accessories. The main item. The item that's needed right away and can be used without the accessories, because it's the main item. The main item will arrive in a separate box.

No indication as to when!

And then there is the time when you spend AGES trying to get into packaging only so find inside the box a sheet of paper with opening instructions. No I didn’t make it up!

 

[Tractor Tim]

But you will, of course, have to take pictures of your 4 hour battle getting it to take a worming pill, and upload said pics onto the RT portal.

No this thing is totally feral taking your life in your hands going any where near it

 

[melted welly]

Dad again I assume?

No comment

 

[DrWazzock]

No comment

Job isn't finished till its been put back in the shed with the door hanging off it and nothings been said. But you miss 'em when they've gone, so make the most of it!

 

[Lofty1984]

Badly adjusted head lights on cars that blind you in the tractor oh and absolute morons who drive around with their front fog lights on when it’s not f**king foggy

 

[milkloss]

Badly adjusted head lights on cars that blind you in the tractor oh and absolute morons who drive around with their front fog lights on when it’s not f**king foggy

They get full beam from me…. Rear fog lights if they’re behind.

 

[Old Tup]

The Dick Head in an elderly JCB waiting to turn right across the traffic in the middle of a busy road at dusk….no lights on…..only the Gigawatt LED light bar fitted to the top of the cab….blinding the oncoming traffic.

 

[Cowslip]

4Yr old sons pet sheep he hand reared attacked by someone's dog!!! Luckily he is still alive but only because he had submerged himself in a wet ditch. Makes me so angry, he was in with the ewes and tups so not expecting a great scanning result from this bunch now. No footpath in field and on a nature reserve where dogs are not permitted.

 

[ashmore]

View attachment 9985284Yr old sons pet sheep he hand reared attacked by someone's dog!!! Luckily he is still alive but only because he had submerged himself in a wet ditch. Makes me so angry, he was in with the ewes and tups so not expecting a great scanning result from this bunch now. No footpath in field and on a nature reserve where dogs are not permitted.

I was going to make an amusing comment about cambridge roll rings/shepherd's hut wheels and straw being called hay. But seeing this post has put things into perspective.

 

[DrWazzock]

Took the Mrs for her covid booster today. At LIncs showground. You turn straight off the A15 but they check your details about 6 cars length down the turn in road off the A15. This means a queue backing up onto the A15 and along it and almost impossible for people trying to turn right off the A15 to actually get off the A15 and in, so both ways they are sat there in a queue like sitting ducks ready for a shunt. It was the same 6 months ago. Why not have the checkpoint say 20 cars length down the entrance road so the queue never backs up onto the A15? To me its an obvious risk but what do I know. If people need to be turned away, which is almost never, then make them loop round the site and back out, without having to U turn in the entrance. I'm just a simple farmer who does my own H and S. Where are the experts?

 

[Cowslip]

View attachment 9985284Yr old sons pet sheep he hand reared attacked by someone's dog!!! Luckily he is still alive but only because he had submerged himself in a wet ditch. Makes me so angry, he was in with the ewes and tups so not expecting a great scanning result from this bunch now. No footpath in field and on a nature reserve where dogs are not permitted.

Update on brutus, he is now under a heat lamp in a fresh bed of straw had anti inflammatory and antibiotic, he is eating and his legs all seem OK, all wounds have been cleaned with hibiscrub but he looks miserable, any ideas for anything else I can do?

 

[br jones]

Update on brutus, he is now under a heat lamp in a fresh bed of straw had anti inflammatory and antibiotic, he is eating and his legs all seem OK, all wounds have been cleaned with hibiscrub but he looks miserable, any ideas for anything else I can do?

find the dog and shoot it

 

[DrWazzock]

Update on brutus, he is now under a heat lamp in a fresh bed of straw had anti inflammatory and antibiotic, he is eating and his legs all seem OK, all wounds have been cleaned with hibiscrub but he looks miserable, any ideas for anything else I can do?

He’s had a hell of a shock but he will come right after a day or two. We had a hogget was attacked by a stray foxhound. He wasn’t badly injured but was in a sort of stupor for a couple of days. Dad reckoned it was some sort of prey animal automatic reaction to an attack. You could go up to him and roll him over. Then he seemed to “reset” and was back to normal again.

 

[primmiemoo]

Update on brutus, he is now under a heat lamp in a fresh bed of straw had anti inflammatory and antibiotic, he is eating and his legs all seem OK, all wounds have been cleaned with hibiscrub but he looks miserable, any ideas for anything else I can do?

If you have some gentle udder cream (or can find Battles medicated wound cream) to slather on the skin around the wounds, he'll feel more comfy.

Keep up the anti-inflamatory.

 

[C.J]

Give it some Ivy to eat.

 

[primmiemoo]

Give it some Ivy to eat.

Yes, and also some bramble leaves. Ordinary hogweed, too ~ freshest leaves possible. I think they all help the rumen to adjust to the various shocks to the system.

 

[Cowslip]

I have some udder cream will put that on the morning, nothing looks deep enough for stitches, have a couple of ewe lambs I could put him with for company which might help in the morning. He's eating a bit of lamb creep, sugar beet pellets and hayledge, not alot but is picking. Thankyou for the suggestions.

 

[Baker9]

find the dog and shoot it

And the moron who owns it

 

[Lili]

Update on brutus, he is now under a heat lamp in a fresh bed of straw had anti inflammatory and antibiotic, he is eating and his legs all seem OK, all wounds have been cleaned with hibiscrub but he looks miserable, any ideas for anything else I can do?

Have you another lamb or old ewe you could put in a pen next to him for company?

 

[Longlowdog]

@Cowslip my vet recommends a rumen probiotic powder for stressed sheep. I'm no expert but my vet tells me a lot of ill sheep go down hill because their rumen stops working through stress and not necessarily the original complaint. I bought a tup recently who started looking pretty down at heel shortly after I got him home and he then began squitting through the eye of a needle and the vet said it was probably a stress reaction to travel and being handled a lot at the mart with no peace and quiet. 4 days of the powder (1 sachet split into 4 of what the label said was a cattle probiotic) mixed with water along with the hay he had been eating quite well and he was much brighter and dried up. It's quite easy to administer with a really big bore lamb tubing syringe with a big outlet but my tup nipped the blasted end off the syringe each day and wiped out my lamb tubing syringes. The powder in solution won't flow through a regular syringe designed for a needle.
I hope your lad's pet recovers and I really hope you get to the bottom of who allowed this happen.