mr lee Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Went up to the farm friday morning till this afternoon to help out with lambing and look for our two foxes. Pulled up onto the driveway to be met with almost 250 sheep all wondering if we had any Provin in the van. (it's like cocaine to a druggie, they go nuts for it.. :blink: ) Parked up and nipped into the house for a chat and a cuppa. Farmer told us which fileds had singles,doubles and which had triplets in and that we all needed to be doing one hour tours to check for any new lambs and if any were found then to collect them and the mother into the trailer and fetch them down to one of the pens in the barn. We set off out on the quad on our first tour of the fields but nothing had delivered so headed back to the van to get the shotguns out. Picked up a load of clays and headed down to the far end of the farm for a spot of clay bashing. Had an awful result first time round. Using a borrowed pump action I only managed 8 our of 20 hits. My shooting mate didn't fait too much better with 10 out of 20 on. Had my second round and faired better with 15 out of 20 and paul hit 13 out of 20. Pretty pleased with the result as the wind was throwing the clays all over the place. As we headed back up to the van it started to rain. HARD! We checked round the fields again and brought one sheep in which had literally just delivered it's first lamb as we were passing by. So pleased I had gloves with me to pick it up due to all the gunk on them. We carried on touring round and nipping back for a coffee and alternating the tours with the farmer. Eventually the rain stopped so we nipped out with the rimmys for a scout round for any rabbits. Got 3 in no time but then diverted our attention to the crows. They were all lined up on the fences and on the ground like something from a rifle range wonderland. Sat out at 60 yards behind a wall we managed to take down 35 crows. After a late tea we started back on our tours of the fields and came across a 'triple' sheep which was well and truly stuck in some deep mud upto it's shoulders. For almost 35 minutes were struggled to free it but once free it was too tired to get up and do anything. We picked the trailer up and collected it and pulled it into the barn and fed it and let it rest hoping it wouldn't give up completely and die. Once again back out into the fields to check for anymore lambs found us pulling in 5 sheep and 13 lambs. As we collected the last new borns and mothers we spotted a fox deep into the bottom of one of the fileds just sat upright looking round. Straight back to the van for the shotguns and caller. It was still sat there when we got back so we nipped down the next field and across to it. we had just got within range and started to get ready when it's ears pricked up and head spun round and started to scoot off up the next farmers field. We could hear a caller going and about 5 minutes later a shot sounded off. Guess the guy over the hill had this one. As we headed back up to the farm we spotted another mother than had just delivered a lamb so collected her and the young and headed back to the barn with them. We lifted the lamb into a pen and the mother follwed on about 3 foot behind into the pen when she just stopped in her tracks, raised her head and dropped another lamb right at our feet. After seeing how quickly and easily a sheep delivers it's young I can't understand why women make such a fuss delivering a baby.. *checks over shoulder to check Mrs lee didn't see me type that * Anyway, the sheep we pulled in which was stuck had improved no end by this morning and just before we left she had delivered 2 lambs with no problems. Quite an eye opening weekend as to how much work is involved in lambing and farming as a whole. Loved every minute of it. B) The picture of me holding the lamb was taken of the sheep that dropped one at our feet about 4 hours after it was born. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mr lee Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 'Balti spice' as we nicknamed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgrangeb Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 i hate lambing time... sheep are soo dumb and bringing them in is a nightmare... yesterday tried to bring in a mum by taking the newborns to the stables tokeep them ought the impending storm. mum wouldnt have it and refused to go to the stables and nearly ran off... grr have had to resort to temp field shelters... sheep are so dumb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr lee Posted March 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 (edited) i hate lambing time... sheep are soo dumb and bringing them in is a nightmare...yesterday tried to bring in a mum by taking the newborns to the stables tokeep them ought the impending storm. mum wouldnt have it and refused to go to the stables and nearly ran off... grr have had to resort to temp field shelters... sheep are so dumb OH yes! Realised that about 30 minutes into our weekend. We had one mother run when we lifted the lamb. Took ages to get her into the trailer. I also think we had the worst weather so far this year just as it turned dark too to add to the fun. Edited March 30, 2008 by mr lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandmartin Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Really interesting post there Mr. Lee and if the clays session wasn't too brilliant to begin with you sure had a great crow bashing session. Good man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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