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How long are you sheep farming?

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  • #32
    sheepmad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭sheepmad


    Always kept sheep but used them to improve pasture with cattle with 1 ewe to the acre. Now all sheep and happy out. No wild cattle, just easily managed sheep and lots of them.


  • #33
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,919 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Dabbling in sheep since 07' - steep learning curve to say the least and any success I've had is thanx to good advice and guidance from the in-laws who keep an eye on the show when I'm away at work.


  • #34
    Green farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Green farmer


    sheepmad wrote: »
    Always kept sheep but used them to improve pasture with cattle with 1 ewe to the acre. Now all sheep and happy out. No wild cattle, just easily managed sheep and lots of them.

    I used to farm part time before about 15 years ago. Bucket calfs
    And sold them as 2 year olds.then along came a few limousine calfs and Shirley cross. Then had some fun with them trying to jump over walls and not being able to be caught. Enough to put me off farming for a long time. Reinterred farming in recent years. This time with sheep. No looking back and won't ever have cattle ever again .I enjoy the sheep


  • #35
    Lano Lynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭Lano Lynn


    welcome back R.
    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    My favourite time is the evening, a nice evening mind you, when they're all fed to the gills on grass and settled down for the night. All you can hear is the birds singing.

    there we all thought ya were a shoot em trap em hang em high vermin terminator Con, you auld tree hugger ya :D
    (how do you hug a gorse bush?)


  • #36
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Lano Lynn wrote: »
    (how do you hug a gorse bush?)

    Carefully.


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  • #37
    old deere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭old deere


    1979 getting out every year since


  • #38
    jt65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭jt65


    old deere wrote: »
    1979 getting out every year since


    it,s a lot easier to get into sheep than get out of them


  • #39
    razor8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,349 ✭✭✭razor8


    rangler1 wrote: »
    Username John wrote: »

    Guess who!!!!!!!!
    Bad morning here Wednesday, had to shoot the ewe that put out the lamb bed, came on boards then.....another infraction...wtf three in a fortnight, also being warned to go through my posts to take out anything that might identify me...just thought this is getting waaaay too serious.
    also involved in something in real life at the moment that, if it works out, will raise my profile
    Then just to really annoy me, the sheep forum got really interesting.....so I'm back.
    Owed you guys more than just fecking off without saying a word, hope we can continue where we left off.
    John if you find a way to stop sheep getting ****ty in may/june tell me about it, shear here in end aug, and they actually get spotlessly clean by then, hard to believe,

    Welcome back!! Ya couldn't even stay away for a day! Addicted to these sheep or what!!


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