Icesave Veterans Association

amistupid

Iced_Off wrote: »

Rigg Welter. Used to be a sheep farmer in a previous life
(I kid you not!)

Must have took ages for the cats to respond to "Come by"

amistupid

Iced_Off wrote: »

and bred a few fat lambs too.

Me too!

Tibbledom

Iced_Off wrote: »

I don't have any sheep now, no. I'm glad really - I sold all mine before the last outbreak of foot and mouth, which was a nightmare :eek:

I bred pedigree Suffolks and Charolais for a few years though, and bred a few fat lambs too. (Vegetarians look away now)

What was lambing like?

Iced_Off

amistupid wrote: »

Must have took ages for the cats to respond to "Come by"

Never worked well with a dog. I had a very good horse though! She could turn a Swaledale faster than any collie!

Iced_Off

Tibbledom wrote: »

What was lambing like?

I was the only person who could make lambing last 6 months! I had the Suffolks lambing early new year, main crop lambs in March/April and the stragglers as late as July one year. :eek:

amistupid

Have you got a crook Mel?

Iced_Off

Iced_Off wrote: »

I was the only person who could make lambing last 6 months! I had the Suffolks lambing early new year, main crop lambs in March/April and the stragglers as late as July one year. :eek:

Thinking about it now, I can still smell the iodine and sheep dip!

Iced_Off

amistupid wrote: »

Have you got a crook Mel?

I have indeed

Tibbledom

Iced_Off wrote: »

I don't have any sheep now, no. I'm glad really - I sold all mine before the last outbreak of foot and mouth, which was a nightmare :eek:

It was bad around here as it was everywhere. There were so many flocks that were completely destroyed.

I imagine you would have been like that farmer who kept all their sheep in their farmhouse during the crisis, can still remember the pictures.

amistupid

Did you eat any of the ones you bred? Like Hugh from Riverside Cottage.