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f**k Up Fortnight
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It’s 5deg blowing a gale and heavy rain 
Think lambs can wait
Think lambs can wait
What a complete change from the glorious weekend, gone so much colder, so, no good on man or stock.It’s 5deg blowing a gale and heavy rain
Think lambs can wait
Peeing down in the early hours when I woke and checked camera, all quiet so I happily went back to sleep. I am going to feed these last 5 ewes a Vindaloo curry and see if that gets them moving!!
Tempted to lob them out, but 3 novices and 2 triples, so keeping them handy as 3 belong to Herself!!A lot of the grassland still sodden but I managed to get another 15ac top dressed on Sunday morning in the sunshine even one patch that was unwalkable earlier in the week.
Then we had a works outing and went to "Church" together, aka Lidl, to top up on little treats.
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What is the story with the compact tractor? will it float?What a complete change from the glorious weekend, gone so much colder, so, no good on man or stock.
Peeing down in the early hours when I woke and checked camera, all quiet so I happily went back to sleep. I am going to feed these last 5 ewes a Vindaloo curry and see if that gets them moving!!
A lot of the grassland still sodden but I managed to get another 15ac top dressed on Sunday morning in the sunshine even one patch that was unwalkable earlier in the week.
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I'd like my 1970 DB 780 back for fertiliser & spraying this year, but the compact looks like it might get stuck in a puddle.
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I was surprised how well ours was drying up, meadows just keeping up with a proliferation of ewes and lambs , this morning all steeper ground has rivulets on itWhat a complete change from the glorious weekend, gone so much colder, so, no good on man or stock.
Peeing down in the early hours when I woke and checked camera, all quiet so I happily went back to sleep. I am going to feed these last 5 ewes a Vindaloo curry and see if that gets them moving!!
A lot of the grassland still sodden but I managed to get another 15ac top dressed on Sunday morning in the sunshine even one patch that was unwalkable earlier in the week.
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Horrible cold wind but it’s stopped raining for now
We’re making a crèche in an empty pen rather than turning out today
Groundsman at golf club has me on speed dial, sheep do like grazing on the fairways if they can get to them, not had an escape so far this year but I know it's only a temporary respite.She'll be back in there again before long, probably thought it was a fun game.
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Ffs hail and sleet on a bitterly cold wind
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I’ve left the outside lambers to it, they hunker down in bits of rush and behind walls, if I go walking around they get up and move on with a poor bedraggled lamb in tow
That is something I have tried to impress on Herself when an EC is lambing outside.... "Leave them Alone"!
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Not as good as a Quad or UTV because of weight, but MUCH less appealing to the light fingered fairies of the night... More versatile too with 3pt and pto. Just wished I had specced a loader when I got it in 2021.
Got oversized wheels on it for more speed and 25% wider. I did price up terra style wheel and tyres, but they were 1/2 the tractor price.... I run Industrials at 5psi as opposed to pure turf tyres, as they will find grip in greasy conditions. About 8-10" ground clearance, and not had it stuck.....yet, although I almost lost it last Spring in the Solar farm, as I had forgotted to engage 4wd before a VERY wet spot
Top dressed some areas a week ago I struggled to walk on....
My EC guru and 2nd Hand Tractor seller asked whay I did not use an old Fergie or similiar, but a modern compact, even one as small as this, is another machine altogether. 4WD being the USP.
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Bloody cold, wet and windy here this morning. Yesterday seemed like a very good day! Too many things went very well. Sold a ruck of ewes and lambs for decent money, the weather wasn't bad, the fields were drying, it was a good day. Today its wet and windy and I'm sat in Costa waiting on 4 new tyres on the truck. Good job I sold some lambs yesterday and that's just to pay for the coffee!
and that's just to pay for the coffee!
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We just did a sneaky greggs bacon and sausage bun and a coffee… left the student bedding pens upBloody cold, wet and windy here this morning. Yesterday seemed like a very good day! Too many things went very well. Sold a ruck of ewes and lambs for decent money, the weather wasn't bad, the fields were drying, it was a good day. Today its wet and windy and I'm sat in Costa waiting on 4 new tyres on the truck. Good job I sold some lambs yesterday
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It’s a calculated risk , mostly they get on and lamb , but not checking means an odd lost or hung lamb … then there’s catching the little sods to mark and ringThat is something I have tried to impress on Herself when an EC lambs outside.... "Leave them Alone"!
I saw a ewe starting to abort last night, left it, bloody dead this morning right on the footpath across a very wet field. By the time I’d gone and got a wheel barrow to remove it 2 people had messaged, was at 5.30.
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They never die at the bottom of the field or in a shrubby bit
always right by the roadside fence. Thankfully very few footpaths through here, and understanding neighbors. 
Three guesses why this photo isn't in the "Things That Make Me Smile" thread.:
1) Lame2) Mastitis3) 5 cropDid you pick door number 1? You're a winner
!Did you pick door number 2? You're a winner
! Did you pick door number 3? You're a winner
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Hell of a lot of blarting last night around 11pm and again this morning.... This lot had obviously had seen the forecast and thought, "sod it, back inside Girls"! 10mins after I dropped a bale in this morning and took the pic, the feeder was surrounded.It’s 5deg blowing a gale and heavy rain
Think lambs can wait
Not a sheep to be seen yesterday afternoon...
The inbuilt GPS, put the ewe exactly where she wanted to be.....
Try and check with Binoculars, but IKWYM about the odd lost one.It’s a calculated risk , mostly they get on and lamb , but not checking means an odd lost or hung lamb … then there’s catching the little sods to mark and ring
Ringing is not done here, which saves one job.... Markings is.... optional!
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Bloody cold, wet and windy here this morning. Yesterday seemed like a very good day! Too many things went very well. Sold a ruck of ewes and lambs for decent money, the weather wasn't bad, the fields were drying, it was a good day. Today its wet and windy and I'm sat in Costa waiting on 4 new tyres on the truck. Good job I sold some lambs yesterday
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.
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