SheepChaser
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Ffs it was going so well until they let ppl drive to the countryside to exercise ........ I might just drive to their garden for a bbq and a beer......
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To be fair mate, there wasn’t much info on that, and I’ve had plenty of folk enquire for a job on the farm, looked at what they have sent and thought .... wtf. As opposed to itinerant fruit pickers who do it every season .....
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That’s partly bollicks mate. Just as many ‘working class kids’ who’d rather hang about the estate and sell drugs or wanna be a f***ing rapper, or just can’t be fooked working. Farms now having to import Romanian labour during this virus thing as even with all of the push to it etc .... can’t get enough British applicants.
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That’s partly bollicks mate. Just as many ‘working class kids’ who’d rather hang about the estate and sell drugs or wanna be a f***ing rapper, or just can’t be fooked working. Farms now having to import Romanian labour during this virus thing as even with all of the push to it etc .... can’t get enough British applicants.
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He means he’s not taking it out of the house so it won’t be socialised and used to the world
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Good post. Where we got to was basically you are dealing with Russian Dolls. Daughters within mothers, within mothers etc. If you know what i mean. Somehow, you need a generational break. I can only liken it to sheep. You can keep running around and sorting the day to day problems until you go mad, or you can work at the bigger things, flock genetics, nutrition and flock level management, which allows you to cull / breed the population so you dont see those problems any more. Take lameness as an example - you can keep treating feet for eternity, or treat and cull repeat lam
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I went to loads of rough as f**k spots where people had f**k all in terms of work, money etc. Some of those folk had clean, healthy, well mannered kids. And some of those lived in filthy shit holes, kids poorly fed, dirty and not given a f**k about. Often mum was smoking her fags like a chimney and house always had a tv ..... Edited to Add - a major issue is you can’t claim benefits etc until 16, which means if you leave home and are self supporting and avoiding the powers that be under 16 (which a lot are - they make up the invisible ones, sofa surfers etc) then you cannot
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It ain’t always the immigrants and it ain’t always the government. Sometimes ..... shock horror....... the people actually are at fault themselves. Typical uk..... always someone else’s fault ffs.
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I have to admit that often those at the top are short sighted. But even a lot of those folk are pretty good. The way it’s all funded is a bit to blame, short term grant funding, just little continuation. if I’m honest though, it’s an almost unsolvable situation. I used to spend a lot of time trying to work out how the hell you fix it ...... I’m not sure if you can ?
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I worked in children’s services for a good few years, as a counsellor and also first point of contact / family liaison. I was the dude that kids used to come to, to disclose that they were being abused, beaten, neglected. I was also the person who worked to link up family, school, police etc. People are living on the poverty line and things are pretty messed up, but if I’m honest the government really doesn’t like taking kids away and wouldn’t do so for financial reasons. There are always things in place to allow people to access support. The government isn’t blameless and
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Uk breeds it’s own special kind of moron.
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I got an earth dog that was scared of the dark, but he’s turned into a massive asset around the place. Real nice to give him a second chance to.
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Any photos of that one you kept back for that mad hippy?
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Fair point. Yer people do that, I've always favoured the quiet and slow and fire the dogs approach haha. To be fair we are shearing ewes due to lamb from 1st of May on Wednesday. Its different, the shearers here know their shit.
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To be fair I think what bird did is good. If I come up to my sheep, I’m a dog man, I can read the situation. Man has dogs off lead, man has dogs under control, sheep are calm. He has the terrier on a lead so he obviously knows the score. I’d wave and go on by. Also it’s ewes and big lambs, no dramas there. If it were lambing ewes you’d go and have a chat and just warn the possible issues. It’s a good advert for Lurchers. Its like poachers that shut gates and avoid stock. No one minds them.
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Second but is bang on. Hill sheep smell different and lambs move different and anything coloured .....
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My original post which took this a bit off track, was just asking out of interest, how far different folk took the while ‘it’s broken to sheep’ thing. Working dogs steadily in and around stock is fine, especially certain stock types and at certain times of year. I kind of always took it for granted growing up that most hunting folk understood farming, but obviously that’s not true as many hunters grow up and live in cities. I just saw a video of a lad firing a dog at a rabbit in a field of sheep, the dog ran it through the sheep bouncing them everywhere and FairPlay the dog didn’t look at
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Yer sorry . . . . I kind of took it a bit off topic, I just happened to watch a video on you tube last night and it got me thinking . . . . .
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You know I'm a sheep farmer right?
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That escalated quickly!
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Accidents happen, where a dog goes is sometimes out of your control. I meant more like, lamping, seeing a single bunny sat amongst the sheep and firing your dog down the beam at it. Its a poxy rabbit . . . . . thats someones livelihood.
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Where I think the problem is, is perhaps these days a lot of dog folk don’t know as much about farming as they once did. I (and many farmers) put their rams in, in october / November. Which means a group of ewes at that time has been put to be mates, in the first few weeks the embryo isn’t that set, and too much stress etc (or even a nutritional knock) can lead to embryos being lost, basically early stage abortion. I get one chance a year to make money out of the sheep, and if I’m honest and I saw a lad slip a Lurcher at a poxy rabbit day in with my sheep and scattered them all
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Looking good! the whole stock breaking thing is interesting. Was watching a video on you tube, which I think was filmed by a member on here, they are lamping rabbits and slip dog on a rabbit in a field of sheep, dog goes through them, scatters sheep every where, even see one sheep lurch out the dogs was and go over ...... dog ignores the sheep totally, catches rabbit and brings it back. Clip seemed to be filmed October / November and it looked to be a group of ewes. There was a bit of debate on the comments section but consensus was that ppl shouldn’t give the lad a hard time a
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Take a breath. You’re making yourself sound like a right plum. Its basic and simple, learn to walk before you can run. Get a dog, train it, work it, enjoy it. Meet others, see their dogs, at one point you may get lucky and get a cracker, which other folk would want a pup off....... and so it begins etc.
