The Poultry Keeper

CP · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:15 am Post subject:

Homing sheep, whatever next! Shocked

debcat · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

chased the OH's sheep halfway round the township (before breakfast) mine and Suz sheep got the blame Confused

rugby tackled fred, with becky's help, when he broke his rope - he did not want to get caught Twisted Evil

drenched and marked all the gimmers, wedders and barran ewes and moved them all to the common grazing

Rescued a goat who'd got stuck in the fence
trimmed all the goats feet

rescued some pipping eggs from the broody duck in the ditch, mum wouldn't move so they are now in the bator

and the best bit
we have had lambs tails brought in by the cats before(they think they are mice) but, today is the first time I have had to remove a male lambs bits from the middle of the front room Shocked

CP · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:59 am Post subject:

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1845 Location: norfolk

Hope you then served them up fried on a slice of toast as in the old days. Used to watch my next door neighbour castrating piglets and throwing the bits to the waiting cats and dogs!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7161 Location: isle of lewis

our dogs at the stables used to hang around when the horses where done at the stables that i worked at Wink

nonie has been up at debs all week and really enjoyed it ,
she spent most of the week with debs neighbour ,learning about sheep ,folding fleeces for the wool marketing board
she did find out she has short legs ,and rodieo riding can be done on a sheep Rolling Eyes

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1845 Location: norfolk

Cor! Wish I'd seen that! Laughing

debcat · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:04 am Post subject:

the boss said she'd done really well Very Happy

just needed to stretch her legs a couple of inches Laughing

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7161 Location: isle of lewis

brady has broken the shed ,he's broken the door frame ,
he just likes to batter things big time
any body got ideas for battering toys
the door frame wood is 2 by 2 and he's snapped it

debcat · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7161 Location: isle of lewis

well 3 sheep just eascaped into the morrisons
luckily they didn't see them as they had just got in
got to rearrange the electric fencing ,and do a bit more fencing when i get home from work

mojo · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject:

i remember a trick to stop a head butter ram tie a big sqweaky toy between the horns on forhead the noise put him off

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7161 Location: isle of lewis

that could work mojo ,no rams here pet rams tend to be a bit dodgy
although everyboy wanted to use sweetums ,he's huge and got a good fleece

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7161 Location: isle of lewis

i've been to work and nonie and i have put up the first 50 feet of post and rail fencing
i'm chuffed it looks lovely

debcat · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

knocked down part of an old stable that looked really rickety, wasn't that rickety when it came to demolishing it Confused

hopefully will finish it tomorrow

debcat · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject:

finally finished knocking the old stable down, tied a rope to the tractor in the end and pulled
One more rickety building to go, thats literally made of old doors and is already roofless so should be a lot easier to get down