Sheep?

[steve66 3,502]

Sounds a hard way of going about things ........ why not just buy a lawnmower , itll over winter on concrete very easy and youll only have to put fuel afew times a season , no worming no vets ect 

[WILF 47,351]

12 minutes ago, dytkos said:

 

How long do they fukcers live for?

Cheers, D.

Long enough to get a phone call off your wife at 5am when you are 500 miles away saying “That f***ing dog of yours has just dismembered the dirty great buck goat and I have been up the field picking up the bits !” Lol  

Edited June 2, 2021 by WILF

[fireman 10,934]

52 minutes ago, sid g said:

i was going to suggest a goat or 2 or offer for  free grazing 

Goats ain't a grazing animal it's a brouser,they will graze out on a tether because they got f all else to do or eat,let a goat loose and it'll eat the hedge by choice rather than the grass..

[fireman 10,934]

1 minute ago, sid g said:

 

got ya i thought be easier than sheep with laws / regs 

Fare to say i didn't get hassled for paper work when i was a stonehenge with a goat one time  ...

 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Cheers for couple of mentions. 

As said, goats won't eat enough grass to achieve what your after. And they are just a massive pain in arse.

Your issue this year is everything is over priced, cull ewes included. Just been one of them years for live sellers.

If it just to keep grass down I'd suggest a whether from something like a mule, they the lowest value. You will need a flock number/cph if you want to move it on (dead or alive) at some stage. 

If you want it for long term then go easycare or exlana, no shearing, no flystrike, probably no worms. But you'll get less £££ if you want to sell live at market. 

Fencing - if they've plenty of grass then decent stock Fencing will keep them in. If you want to electric thrb train them to it (small stock fenced paddock with two electic strands where they will get a good few shocks, trained).

They'll over winter happily indoors on straw with hay or barley straw to feed. If not in lamb then decent hay be enough (need some concentrate ration/rolls if in lamb). They will drink lot more indoors on rolls though. 

 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

1 hour ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Integrate it gently with the bigger shit out there.

Mixed grazing works well- cattle worms don't affect sheep, and likewise sheep's don't affect cattle. Any worms ingested by the other species will kill that worms (sheep kill cattle worms & vice versa)

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

How many more times do I have to state that goats are the very, living, epitome of a fukking nightmare? Been there. Done that. Shot the last fukking thing in the face.

Anyway; Thread seems to have gone about as I'd expected. Gave up reading it and got my dinner on

Consensus seems to be though: " Roundup " ? Fair play. It was just a knee jerk muse.

Wilf has often enough said how he's against the Death Penalty, simply because he wouldn't trust the govt. with that power? Fukked if I'm not coming round to that point of view!

Kunts have me in the condemned cell, as I type this. (Yes: The UK govt Still have the very real power to sentence those they see as untermenschen to death. Believe it.)

Waiting on the result of my Appeal. So, yeah, Not exactly my usual, happy go lucky, self just now.

 

Spent an absolutely lovely spell this afternoon though. Chatting to a member on here, in PM. Guy who's actually Met me (Gasp!) In fact, has known me, face to face and personal, half my fukking life.

He actually said, as I recall, something very much to the tune of: ' I hang around these forums for the few good people. The rest? Once they kick off? I walk. '

Tatchipen!!!

 

And now, if you'll excuse me? I'm off to google breeding guinea pigs. Eat grass. Lot less drama than sheep. And make well amusing noises!

 

[terryd 8,529]

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[green lurchers 16,728]

10 hours ago, terryd said:

Tethered goat is a like a lawn mower just move them along plus more character than some tit of a sheep too plus get  milking nanny and some some nice fresh milk

And then eat it

[forest of dean redneck 11,679]

Your on about guinea pigs which are like sheep and die for no reason need vitamin c an don’t like the cold , What about rabbits , that would make a meal for you an the dogs /foxes as well ? Only problem would be fox proofing the runs .

[Gypsydog94 4,607]

10 hours ago, WILF said:

The thing would say watch out for is that you won’t get one sheep sheared.....they just won’t bother.

You'd have to get hand shears and keep it trimmed yourself.

Im struggling to get 10 sheared, they can’t be f****d about with small numbers.

There is people who would do it but they want £50 minimum 

[FLATTOP 4,502]

I’ve always been led to believe that Sheep have suicidal tendencies and are always looking for new ways to die.

But Goats on the other hand just for the comedy value who wouldn’t want one .

 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

I shear 5 that are local & I'm paid in home brew beer & his wifes pies

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Sheep could be kept in an open prison. Goats would piss all over alcatraz! I don't like goats (we've got about 20 something) 

[Daniel cain 45,817]

Goat be the way forward