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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Remy on April 29, 2012, 10:43:51 am

Title: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: Remy on April 29, 2012, 10:43:51 am

Apart from yesterday when we got a brief respite it has rained non-stop for four days, all through the night as well.  So far the ewes and lambs who have the best field are coping fine, they don't have a purpose built shelter but do have a lot of hedges.  All the other sheep have access to a shelter (still waiting for one to lamb and I bet she chooses today, it is torrential!).

I've had to move the horses back into their winter field which I usually keep for haylage once they've moved off it, their summer paddock is under water  :o.

I know we needed some rain but I am heartily sick of it now  >:(

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: Victorian Farmer on April 29, 2012, 12:05:25 pm

It looks bad next week end .

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: Bramblecot on April 29, 2012, 03:23:29 pm

Quote from: Victorian Farmer on April 29, 2012, 12:05:25 pm

It looks bad next week end .

That'll be on my days at home then  >:(

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: plumseverywhere on April 29, 2012, 04:20:52 pm

Just feels really depressing now...gone on too long, routine tasks feel mountainous in the ankle deep mud. Animals look fed up too  :(

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: suziequeue on April 29, 2012, 04:47:34 pm

Yes - rain all day here aswell. We eventualy relented and brought the sheep in under cover - just for a bit of respite really. Everyone was standing around hunched over and not eating. DH picked up one of the lambs who was dithering and it was wringing wet  :o :(

On the up side it has meant that I have had to work in the workshop so I have filed all the paperwork and done some work on the chicken plucker and the motorised compost trommel

We've got the stove going and the kettle on..........

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: deepinthewoods on April 29, 2012, 04:57:17 pm

a motorised compost siever?? now that i do like the sound of!!

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: TheCaptain on April 29, 2012, 05:57:44 pm

never seen it as bad. We have an underground drainage ditch that runs from one side of our field to the other. This has now turned into a river that is a foot deep in some places!!!

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: suziequeue on April 29, 2012, 06:40:30 pm

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a motorised compost siever?? now that i do like the sound of!!

Well - it's all been designed in my head so it might turn out to be a disaster but I am hoping that with the skills I pick up motorising the chicken plucker, I can put to good effect with the siever...........

ALl will be reported on here in due course (I hope)  ;) ;)

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: YorkshireLass on April 29, 2012, 08:26:51 pm

Quote from: suziequeue on April 29, 2012, 06:40:30 pm

motorising the chicken plucker,

Is that you, Mrs Tweedy...?  ;D

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Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: Padge on April 29, 2012, 08:40:09 pm

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Good grief when will the rain stop
Post by: dyedinthewool on April 29, 2012, 10:02:41 pm

Torrential rain here all day until very late this evening.

Does anyone remember 'the Goodlife' when Barbara had to get the veggies in when Tom had a bad back...? and Margo helped...!! in her 'wet' gear slipping and sliding in the mud - well that was me today getting in and out of the piggies pen with a bucket of feed as they refused to come out of their shed... :pig: :pig: wellies getting stuck in the quagmire - I had to hold onto the fence as not only was it muddy but we had a howling gale as well -  incase a wellie got stuck and i had to pull it out (which it did, several times).

Piggie girls looking on from the dry of their shed... ::) ::)

Now raining yet again... :gloomy: :gloomy: