- Location
- East Ayrshire
Done this in the past. Even better if you can make the pen near the hill gate so you can release them once dealt with rather than back into the field to gather up again.
f**k Up Fortnight
- Thread starter yellowbelly
- Start date
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Moor gates in a handy corner,
I’ll leave them penned for 1/2 hr to let them get over the castration ring
- Location
- N.Lincs
We drift ours off the lambing park, every day ( or two, depending on conditions) into the next field, which, when they go through the gate, is into a pen....Gotcha
I'm getting too old for this kind of malarky..
I'm getting too old for this kind of malarky..
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Ours are ( we’re on) 26 acres of stoney steep rough grazing… you know the score … this year I’ll catch them early , mark up and send back out …. Not !We drift ours off the lambing park, every day ( or two, depending on conditions) into the next field, which, when they go through the gate, is into a pen....Gotcha
I'm getting too old for this kind of malarky..
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I opened up an adjacent bit of ground with more grass and a few good walls to get behind , so now they have nearly 45 acres to run around avoiding me
I was tempted to run the lot down and bring them all inside, but lots have lambed now
- Location
- N.Lincs
Lots of well made plans have been scuppered by the weather this year
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Yes and it’s not over yetLots of well made plans have been scuppered by the weather this year
Stw88
Member
- Location
- Northumberland
I think I will have led more ewes and lambs into the shed this year than the last 3 put together. 3 more drowned this morning, couple chilled, still could have been worse.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Crèche number 2
Easycare might struggle. They really only like mules, Suffolk or continentals round here as couples. Everything else is heavily recounted
Private sale? I was pondering a load of the old ewes with the Charlie lambs to Shrewsbury when the weather eases and prices lift again.
Yep, not got the weights I reckon. Worth more than a Welshie, probably similar to a lleyn.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Well I don’t know if we will have any live lambs tomorrow
Can’t believe this weather. Just had thunder and lightning, it’s blowing a hoolie and sleeting
I don’t even want to look out on the fields , nature is bloody cruel
Can’t believe this weather. Just had thunder and lightning, it’s blowing a hoolie and sleeting
I don’t even want to look out on the fields , nature is bloody cruel
I’m glad I’m done, at one point today there was a massive hail storm, almost horizontal hail stones. I was doing some fencing on a ridge line and had to take shelter behind/under the quad bike.
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
Yes hail as well!I’m glad I’m done, at one point today there was a massive hail storm, almost horizontal hail stones. I was doing some fencing on a ridge line and had to take shelter behind/under the quad bike.
Just got in for tea and it’s thundering again
A new day tomorrow
- Location
- N.Lincs
Bloody hellfire!
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
I think that would be underestimated! We had rivers running down fields
Today is cold and bright with a hopefully drying wind Meanwhile on the fek up front … hilux’s don’t like wet steep fields , so it’s stuck there for now
We had a similar situation on Friday with a navara. But it was a flat field! I did remind him it was wet by the oak tree as we involuntarily parked up. He said we'd fetch it back today because it was a lovely drying weekend He hoped it'd drive out...not today it won't I bet!
- Location
- South Pennines ol14
I nearly made it
