You know you are lambing /calving when?

[TripleSix]

When you're nearly asleep stood up in the shed, overtrousers welded to your legs with amniotic fluid

 

[zero]

When you wonder if pouring the kettle straight into the coffee jar would provide enough caffeine to stay awake for the rest of the day.

 

[BAF]

When you're less worried about losing your wedding ring in your pocket of assorted treasure - sweets, change, knives, dirt and straw - than you are about keeping it on and leaving it inside a ewe.

 

[AftonShepherd]

When going somewhere on the bike without the trailer clattering behind you feels like a treat

... but you still drive that extra 8 feet through the gate so you've got room to shut it without hitting the trailer.

 

[Sendhelp]

... but you still drive that extra 8 feet through the gate so you've got room to shut it without hitting the trailer.

When you forget if the trailer is on or off the bike so you assume it is.

 

[Sendhelp]

When the sink has more milk and colostrum apparatus than food dishes

 

[TibTib]

When an 'outsider' looks at you in absolute horror and asks what happened. You then reply with a smirk, oh dont worry its not my blood.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

When your overalls are rock solid and stinky but there isn't time to change them and get all the stuff out the pockets.

 

[spin cycle]

when you get told off for washing prolapse harness in the washing machine

 

[ARW]

When you can’t lamb that big single and wake up and realise you have spent all night trying to lamb a pillow case

 

[unlacedgecko]

When you can’t lamb that big single and wake up and realise you have spent all night trying to lamb a pillow case

Tired minds do crazy things.

 

[unlacedgecko]

When your overalls are rock solid and stinky but there isn't time to change them and get all the stuff out the pockets.

I don't wear overalls. I find I always get too hot.

 

[AngusLad]

You realise all you've consumed for the last day and a half are fags, coffee and tray bake

 

[JSmith]

I don't wear overalls. I find I always get too hot.

I thought you weren’t a professional unless you wore a pair of John Deere overalls ?? Or is that just the arable set

 

[unlacedgecko]

I thought you weren’t a professional unless you wore a pair of John Deere overalls ?? Or is that just the arable set

In my short shorts, calf length boots and Ridgeline smock I'm more of an enthusiastic amateur wannabe than a pro.

Livestock pros wear TorraMôr clothing, as modelled by @scholland

 

[Sendhelp]

I thought you weren’t a professional unless you wore a pair of John Deere overalls ?? Or is that just the arable set

Even crazier i don't have a preferred tractor brand at all. I will use anything.

 

[Longlowdog]

You can tell arable guys from livestock guys by the cuffs on their ovies. Arable guys have the luxury of velcro, whereas livestock guys can only have knitted stretchy cuffs because velcro ceases to work after it gets full of wool.

 

[Muddyroads]

You can tell arable guys from livestock guys by the cuffs on their ovies. Arable guys have the luxury of velcro, whereas livestock guys can only have knitted stretchy cuffs because velcro ceases to work after it gets full of wool.

They also usually have a healthy bank account and a social life!

 

[David1968]

When your Sat having coffee and biscuits at 3.09 before a final walk round, up at 6

When the final walk round at 3, takes till 6. And breakfast is 2 mars bars and a bottle of Lucozade

 

[abitdaft]

It's only a fraction of the year. My Mrs wouldn't let me back in the house if she thought there was anything cold or hungry. I don't know if I could leave the shed if there was anything not right anyway. I know that my attitude wouldn't work with a couple of thousand ewes but when you only have a wee puckle it becomes all consuming to make every life count either at the pedigree sales or at least to send it to the butcher's shelf.

It may only be a fraction of the year but for many of us it is just the beginning of a long haul through to august and every year I say that I am not dealing with pets and then every year like a complete sucker I fall for the gangly legs and big heided thing that was hung and before I know it I have a bloody cartel of gangsters tripping me up at least twice a day.