- Location
- West Wales
Had a ewe last year kept looking dead on a footpath so the girl working for me wrote on the side “I’M NOT DEAD” few days later she died so she crossed out the NOT until 2 of us were there to drag her fat arse in
You know you are lambing /calving when?
- Thread starter abitdaft
- Start date
I thought I had a dead ewe this morning but getting up to it it was a swan, try to ring the queen to get her to pick up her dead stock but not interested. 
- Location
- Fife
I just pick them up and move them so pansies stop calling me.I thought I had a dead ewe this morning but getting up to it it was a swan, try to ring the queen to get her to pick up her dead stock but not interested.
- Location
- West Wales
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
.......after helping a ewe with twins you think you'll 'cheer her up' with a fodder beet......wander over to the heap in the dark and place your hand on a rat rather than a beet 
- Location
- South wales
Bet that woke you up.......after helping a ewe with twins you think you'll 'cheer her up' with a fodder beet......wander over to the heap in the dark and place your hand on a rat rather than a beet
- Location
- North Suffolk
Your rats sound tamer than your sheep!.......after helping a ewe with twins you think you'll 'cheer her up' with a fodder beet......wander over to the heap in the dark and place your hand on a rat rather than a beet
- Location
- Fife
Would you use a catch dog or crook?
A1an
Member
The wife
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
as long as you don't 'sleep walk lamb' and try get 'that big single out and check the milk'
- Location
- Fife
Just after lambing 4 yrs ago I woke the Mrs up. I was asleep, but I'd grabbed her by the hip and chin and was trying to throw her out of bed.
She asked me what the hell I was doing, and apparently I replied "sorry I thought you was a sheep"
She asked me what the hell I was doing, and apparently I replied "sorry I thought you was a sheep"
JMTHORNLEY
Member
- Location
- Glossop
It's 11PM you check calving cam and there's one starting, go down to the shed and wait. Whilst waiting you contemplate all the life decisions you've made and what's got you to this point... Cow calves safely and all seems great in the world, it's now 1AM you start packing all your gear away that you didn't need but still bring, calving aid, ropes and rehydration buckets ect...... 'brilliant, successful night now time for bed' you turn around to go and there's two more of the f**kers starting. 5:30AM rolls round quick and the heifer you've been mithering about starts to calve Pull that little beauty of bull calf out, now it really is time for some breakfast...walk in the house and put kettle on, Mrs comes downstairs and says 'morning how did you sleep?' 
'f**king grand love'
Pull that little beauty of bull calf out, now it really is time for some breakfast...walk in the house and put kettle on, Mrs comes downstairs and says 'morning how did you sleep?' 'f**king grand love'
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
could you wake up in excruiating pain and wife ,c/w ringing pliers, says 'sorry thought you was that tup lamb i forgot about'
That's another thing that only happens at lambing time. Rubber rings in every pocket but you can never remember where you left the ringing plierscould you wake up in excruiating pain and wife ,c/w ringing pliers, says 'sorry thought you was that tup lamb i forgot about'
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
That's another thing that only happens at lambing time. Rubber rings in every pocket but you can never remember where you left the ringing pliers
one year i kept misplacing them...kept buying another.....found found three later on
....only got one at mo though
I've done that as well but I've found two nowone year i kept misplacing them...kept buying another.....found found three later on
For a while I could only find the one with only 3 prongs on it as one broke off so didn't really open the rings very well and I should have throw it away but... you know you might need it as a spare for when the spare to the spare breaks . Never lost that one
I've still got it in a drawer safe as a spare for the spare spare Party Pete
Member
When you tell all your mates you no longer need a calving jack because you have a Hereford bull . But your waiting on the vet to come and cut a calf out at 11pm
- Location
- Perthshire, Scotland
When you choke the washing machine with all the spare rubber rings you have in your pockets
- Location
- sw scotland
I was blamed for losing them ringing outside lambs but was 99% certain I brought them back to the shed and my wife had left them in some straw. 2 weeks later wife steps on something in the bedding but at least she owned up -after buying another set.That's another thing that only happens at lambing time. Rubber rings in every pocket but you can never remember where you left the ringing pliers