primmiemoo
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The ground feels like bedrock when that blimmin' ewe that thinks she's into rugby moves takes your knees out yet again, but y'stay there for a bit anyway, for the rest.
My boyfriends birthday is mid lambing on his birthday i lambed 6 ewes and the following day he bought me food,made dinner and helped me lambing ewes at 2 in the morning.When the most fun you can have with the misses on a Sunday morning is to go round a collect all the cull ewes, kill the bitchs!!!.
I was thinking about this yesterday everything is expensive even lambing is an expensive job now years ago it was dog and stick now it’s more like a factory but the lambs saved do cover the expense but it’s money you never see that wayWhen it feels like the bills for feeding /fuel /fertiliser and lambing sundries all add up to more than a small African countries gdp.....
I had a collie who pinched stuff when you weren't looking. It was funny till he started running off with the vet's stuff in the middle of a caesareanHow the hell can use something in one pen and move to the adjacent pen to find what you just previously used suddenly vanish into some 4th dimension!!
Before or after, you've wiped your hands on the woolWhilst slowly stretching a ewe that I'd caught n left twice to open up, I realised how comfy it was to rest my head on the side of the sheep,
The girls here lift the buckets and empty them when marking 1 hour before they go out, any unnecessary wetness only adds to watery mouth and bacteria build upWhy does the ewe always insist on tipping its water bucket over when getting it out the pen?
We aren’t that well organised here I don’t know what I’m doing in an hours time there could be two cows calving by thenThe girls here lift the buckets and empty them when marking 1 hour before they go out, any unnecessary wetness only adds to watery mouth and bacteria build up
thought it was impossible to kill henrys try blowing out the filter beyond the bag and best not try to suck up stuff bigger than the end of the spoutI even killed a Henry with this.
I was thinking about this yesterday everything is expensive even lambing is an expensive job now years ago it was dog and stick now it’s more like a factory but the lambs saved do cover the expense but it’s money you never see that way
Yes but at this height I would loose a lot of lambs every time the weather decided it was going to kill you would loose less or none
And for once you don't mind if it bleedsSoooo satisfying putting that cull tag in!
but you don't mention the work (mental as well as physical) that you mustve put in to get to that point, breeding up such maternal stock fit for purpose.----when you get up & go to bed the same time as usual
The only difference with the rest of the year is i may have a couple of lambs to feed occasionally & i'm leisurely checking the ewes every day so get to sit and observe them more than i would at other times
If she has any female offspring,, cull tag that toI was on number 3 an hour ago. Had to lamb a cheviot ewe at dark last night, so brought her andthe 2 lambs in. All happy this morning so took her and the lanbs out to field. She promptly jumps out of trailer and away up hill without lambs, get round her and drive her back. She stays fir5 mins , I go into next field. Look over fence and she taking off up hill with 1 lamb.
Now back in shed doing a bit more bonding and proudly wearing a cull tag