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sheep farmers other job...

  • 13-11-2024 8:52pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,047 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering are many on here solely sheep or beef/tillage and sheep farmers? I presume most sheep farmers have a day job? What is it?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Sami23


    I work full time and keep 10 suckler cows aswell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Tileman


    I work full time in non farming area. Often wonder am I stone mad keeping sheep. Good job good perks. The farming offer drags me down as I get distracted and can’t fully concentrate on job. But still love it .

    Hearth broke last few weeks with sheep breaking out. Never saw it as bad and very busy with work aswell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,914 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    Why would you have sheep and a full time job?

    Jesus...talk about making your life difficult...recipe for an early grave....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,409 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    If you're working in a good job, either get rid of the sheep or get the farm professionally fenced.

    It's a great year to fence , the ground conditions are great to work a hedge cutter or tractor and postdriver.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Tileman


    yea had it all done about 15 years ago but all stakes and strainers all starting to go at same time. I brought in a post driver to do some back in sept but had to condones ground was too hard back then.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,047 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    did you look into the grant for sheep fencing and other things like races and sheep gates? only for im teaching i couldnt have sheep or any form of farming i think.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Full time off farm work with a small connection to farming. I organise my own diary so can have some flexibility with starting and finishing times. Also, some weeks I try to do a day or 2 from home.

    Agree with Wrangler, Good fencing and water infrastructure is invaluable along with good housing and lambing facilities.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Work as a commercial manager for a utility company. 5hr round trip to the dublin office 2 days per week. 1 hour from Cavan office 1 day a week (I sometimes swerve this and do 3 from home).

    Fencing getting slowly better and thankfully been a while since i got the call that sheep were out but if they do break out i try get over and get sorted asap.

    Hope to have all external boundaries fenced over the next year for piece of mind at least.

    Like a lot of things its all in the 5 year plan :o



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Cran


    had over 900 ewes here at one stage while working full time 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭Tileman


    have been offered a few fields to graze sheep on but fencing is poor. For those that take winter she or use electric temp fencing how effective is or how do u make it work.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭White Clover


    It works very well. Along by a ditch or hedge you will get away with 2 rows of polywire. Once the current is kept on it, you won't have a bother. When splitting fields, I use 3 rows.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭Country lad


    only use two rows of wire myself dividing fields and never have a problem



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭Havenowt


    900 sheep, You must love hard work. How did you manage those at lambing time while having a day job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Cran




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 146 ✭✭Havenowt




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,047 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    i cant believe more famrer organisations dont campaign for clocks to stay on summer time all year round. the darkest it would get would be 5:40pm. that would be a great help. it would be bright on st patricks day until 8pm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Mad about baa baas


    I disagree ..i would keep winter time all year round..the mornings would be dark till 9am if summer time stayed..what are you going to be at at 5pm on a December evening whether its bright or not..

    Then I work with horses and start early all year round so the dark mornings are a pain



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Sami23


    Agree summer time should stay all year round.

    This crack of getting dark at 4.30 is a disaster n makes the evenings very long.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Short evenings are hard alright but I think we all need to learn to take more advantage of the long ones. I'm doing things in the cold I could of had done in the summer if I wasn't bolloxing with football etc. Prob be fitter from farming than junior football too 😅😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,010 ✭✭✭farawaygrass


    I’d agree, and read a comment Lately on the subject that said it’s more natural on this time.

    100%, it’s easy say ah I’ll do it tomorrow in the height of summer and regret it in the depths of winter!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    Myself and the wife work of farm full time, the two keys to sheep farming are you have to like sheep first and foremost, second one make life easier every year in facilities upgrades and system, a list is made of things that make hardships and fix them, example a gate opening the wrong way, a silage rack wasting feed, cameras for lambing, three cycles of the ram. etc



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