You mean you have to start with twice as many to the acreMight have to try something else someday but best thing about swale is you can keep twice as many to the acre as the bigger sheep
You mean you have to start with twice as many to the acreMight have to try something else someday but best thing about swale is you can keep twice as many to the acre as the bigger sheep
Is that a maybe?No! If I wanted to do that then I would have already been out and bought some of the overpriced, short lived, mis-mothering pillocks, if I could find any that were Mv accredited.
You forgot the yeeksisys thing however you spell it , they give you that free.No! If I wanted to do that then I would have already been out and bought some of the overpriced, short lived, mis-mothering pillocks, if I could find any that were Mv accredited.
I thought it was going to be @Derrick Hughes on his bike.I’ve being living in fear all winter that this stud broke out from next door. If that got in among ewes or feeding hoggs it would quite happily tup 100 sheep per hour they have a skill of being able to jump at a fence, turn sideways in mid air and fit through that gap between the netting and the Barb. It’s like the matrix
Theres that many in they be cheap
There’s some pictures on their facebook page, bit plain looking I thoughtTheres that many in they be cheap
Yeh lot of dairy influence over thereThere’s some pictures on their facebook page, bit plain looking I thought
https://www.facebook.com/p/Kirkby-Stephen-Auction-Mart-100057297616715/
Cripes we’re lowland and most of our ewes aren’t ready to shear until early/mid JuneThe mistake is late shearing so the sheep don't have a full fleece during the worst of winter, we've always sheared our Scotch Blackface first week in May, they are up on Dartmoor all winter long until the first dozen lambs emerge 14th of March, they then come back into the fields, they always come back in good condition & never see bagged food in their lives. Who'd want to up on the hills in Nov Dec with only a light jacket on!
MONDAY 29th April 2024 - ROSS ON WYE MARKETAny market news today?
Ours are July, any earlier there’s not enough rise. Shearer aims for Yorkshire Show weekCripes we’re lowland and most of our ewes aren’t ready to shear until early/mid June
Some tradeExeter today 1842 cull ewes averaged £156 head..
YesSome trade
To be honest if these winters and springs are going to be the same as this one every year I’ll be doing the sameYes
I have also have heard the last couple of days of yet another farmer culling all their ewes this summer and stopping lambing.
Quite where the sheep meat is going to come from in future years is debatable as the recent high prices after years of low prices have come too late to keep younger family members at home working on the farm and the older generation left working the farms on their own are finding it increasingly too much work to carry on lambing sheep.
Australia or NZ , supermarkets dont give a flying * about uk farmers they only want us to get assurance and use the flag (or parts of it ) on every thing else , very short sighted , if it wasnt for the ethnic trade we would all be sunk .Yes
I have also have heard the last couple of days of yet another farmer culling all their ewes this summer and stopping lambing.
Quite where the sheep meat is going to come from in future years is debatable as the recent high prices after years of low prices have come too late to keep younger family members at home working on the farm and the older generation left working the farms on their own are finding it increasingly too much work to carry on lambing sheep.