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TUPPING DAY IS HERE!
Randy Jackhammer, Thrusty Clappernuts, Brian Bangerplums and Barry Blueballs have been allocated 50 ladies each. (Dave the tup died of the wheezies in July sorry I forgot to tell you.) They've been building up their strength. Here they are eating cabbages.
Randy Jackhammer, Thrusty Clappernuts, Brian Bangerplums and Barry Blueballs have been allocated 50 ladies each. (Dave the tup died of the wheezies in July sorry I forgot to tell you.) They've been building up their strength. Here they are eating cabbages.
This means that by the wonder of science (ie applying one sheep to another sheep) we will have lambs from 5th April 2021. On the dot. With please god no messers-on like Hatty ewe who didn't go into labour til late May when we were all losing the will to live. Lamb was cute tho.
So far all the lads are (in the coy phrase that they use round here) "working well" and I myself spotted Barry perched lugubriously on top of Enid with his lugs flapping back and forth.
"Go forth and be fruitful!" I shouted encouragingly from my porch whilst Enid chewed her cud.
"Go forth and be fruitful!" I shouted encouragingly from my porch whilst Enid chewed her cud.
Gummy and Scabby are too thin to be put in lamb so instead they are in a spinster paddock
They have broken out 3 TIMES this week on a doomed trip to find a willing tup (they failed as Gummy got stuck in the fence and Scabby was chased up the road by the postman)
They have broken out 3 TIMES this week on a doomed trip to find a willing tup (they failed as Gummy got stuck in the fence and Scabby was chased up the road by the postman)
More info as it happens. We're not using raddles this year (the coloured crayon you see on the ewes backsides) but I can't remember why. I must listen when @farmersteven is telling me stuff rather than daydreaming about lambing in hot sunshine with Tom Hardy in bib and braces.
