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Sheep / Re: Rant!! WHY??????
« Last post by SallyintNorth on April 16, 2025, 07:35:39 pm »maybe the lambing hormones affecting them all?
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Sheep / Re: Rant!! WHY??????
« Last post by PipKelpy on April 16, 2025, 06:01:31 pm »Hope Hope is OK
She must like me at the moment as normally she's a snooty so and so.
Went to feed the cades at 4.30pm and then went to see how she was and she happily came up to me and had a few grass nuts out of my hand. (Not normal!!)
Hollow on the other end has self exciled himself to a far corner!
Narks me though, I bottle reared Hollow in 2018 and he's a gentle giant, half lleyn, 1/4 Dorset Down, 1/4 manx x shetland, he's the last relation to my first batch of shetlands from 2005 I think it was (could have been 2004). Never behaved like this before. Lived happily with cattle and when I damaged my foot used to walk alongside me as I was hobbling, so it really annoys me that he would behave like this!
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Sheep / Re: Rant!! WHY??????
« Last post by Rosemary on April 16, 2025, 12:19:16 pm »Hope Hope is OK 
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Sheep / Rant!! WHY??????
« Last post by PipKelpy on April 16, 2025, 11:23:32 am »Agh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have 4 ewes left to lamb, 2 hoggs, 2 ewes. All primitives, a Castlemilk, a Shetland and 2 Shetland X Castlemilks (the hoggs) who happen to be daughter & granddaughter of the castlemilk.
ALL due next week so they'll be coming in together Friday night!
When I went out this morning their field was clear, meaning they'd hopped it to another one to pick at the measly grass!
2 hours later after I'd seen to my cades (by heck they can butt for attention) I went back out the back to feed a couple of condemned ewes!!!! ( mothers of the cades) I looked down the field and actually wondered what I was looking at.
Hope (Castlemilk) was stuck in the fence, not ideal but normally not a problem. The problem was fu****g Hollow (pet wether) bashing the crap out of her through the fence!
Her horn caught, he aimed at her, she can't escape so keeps going down on side! I got to her, unhooked her and then as she stood, fell in a ruck. So I grab hold just to steady. Stayed like that for a few moments, threatening Hollow with the chop (seriously considering it as that was uncalled for!)
Got the 4 into the arena with grass nuts, regrabbed, dosed with twin lamb then let her go. Mum said bring the 4 in tonight!
She looks like a whale and my concern is perfectly presented lambs may now be coming incorrectly which is the problem we had when Petunia bashed Orla (Petunia has been condemned!!)
What is it about bloody sheep? They live happily together but when one is stuck, target practice???
I have 4 ewes left to lamb, 2 hoggs, 2 ewes. All primitives, a Castlemilk, a Shetland and 2 Shetland X Castlemilks (the hoggs) who happen to be daughter & granddaughter of the castlemilk.
ALL due next week so they'll be coming in together Friday night!
When I went out this morning their field was clear, meaning they'd hopped it to another one to pick at the measly grass!
2 hours later after I'd seen to my cades (by heck they can butt for attention) I went back out the back to feed a couple of condemned ewes!!!! ( mothers of the cades) I looked down the field and actually wondered what I was looking at.
Hope (Castlemilk) was stuck in the fence, not ideal but normally not a problem. The problem was fu****g Hollow (pet wether) bashing the crap out of her through the fence!
Her horn caught, he aimed at her, she can't escape so keeps going down on side! I got to her, unhooked her and then as she stood, fell in a ruck. So I grab hold just to steady. Stayed like that for a few moments, threatening Hollow with the chop (seriously considering it as that was uncalled for!)
Got the 4 into the arena with grass nuts, regrabbed, dosed with twin lamb then let her go. Mum said bring the 4 in tonight!
She looks like a whale and my concern is perfectly presented lambs may now be coming incorrectly which is the problem we had when Petunia bashed Orla (Petunia has been condemned!!)
What is it about bloody sheep? They live happily together but when one is stuck, target practice???
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Announcements / New diary post: Blackthorn / Pears / Moss
« Last post by TAS Bot on April 14, 2025, 07:42:08 am »A new TAS diary entry has been posted: Blackthorn / Pears / Moss
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Marketplace / Ferret
« Last post by cuckoo on April 12, 2025, 08:50:14 pm »Hi.
Does anyone have any hob ferret kits available please?
Thank you
Does anyone have any hob ferret kits available please?
Thank you
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Wildlife / Re: Swallows'25
« Last post by Fleecewife on April 11, 2025, 11:52:32 pm »None here yet in South Lanarkshire though I'm straining my ears for them. They should wait until it rains tomorrow anyway so the mud sticks together 
Thanks to those who've posted as I was just about to ask if any swallows have arrived yet. Ospreys seem to be here in large numbers.
Thanks to those who've posted as I was just about to ask if any swallows have arrived yet. Ospreys seem to be here in large numbers.
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Equipment / Re: Flail mowers
« Last post by captainmark on April 11, 2025, 08:28:53 pm »we bought a tow behind flail and used car (small 4wd). i'll add link when i can find it
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Pigs / Re: Feeding Lamlac to pigs
« Last post by SallyintNorth on April 11, 2025, 06:39:51 pm »I don't know the answer but my gut feel would be "probably". As with any new feed, especially a diary one, introduce it slowly, maybe make it up a bit weaker than you'd feed it to lambs?
Others may have more qualified responses...
Others may have more qualified responses...
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Wildlife / Re: Swallows'25
« Last post by edstrong on April 11, 2025, 08:07:07 am »First swallows and house martins have appeared here at Tipton's Croft (central Shropshire), hunting over the pond.
Bats (Daubenton's) have come out of their hibernation to hunt in the evening and night when the swallows and house martins have gone to bed.
A Mallard is sitting on a clutch of eggs on the island. Moorhens may also have a nest but we haven't found it yet.
No barn owls in the owl box this year by the looks of things (likely due to us having to move it when the tree it was in came down in a storm).
www.tiptonscroft.org.uk
Bats (Daubenton's) have come out of their hibernation to hunt in the evening and night when the swallows and house martins have gone to bed.
A Mallard is sitting on a clutch of eggs on the island. Moorhens may also have a nest but we haven't found it yet.
No barn owls in the owl box this year by the looks of things (likely due to us having to move it when the tree it was in came down in a storm).
www.tiptonscroft.org.uk