Selling Prime lambs. The Pain continues...
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2024
- Bit more digger work and selling prime lambs, its hard at the moment.
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My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Greetings from Wisconsin, USA. I like your "notebook" on your wind screen!😉
I'm glad that you chose to share your farm and family with us. The place looks good, to your your credit. One of my earliest memories was of a sheep attacking my Dad when we were planting trees. I was only little. "Get away you stupid biddy". Dad was from South Canterbury and you know what they are like. The ewe was trying to break my Dad's knees, legs. You spoke well on the subject.
Absolutely another great video and a very interesting video to watch, a million thanks ..
Parts of Canterbury are dry, buying grass seeds of a guy in rakia and he's only had an inch of rain so far this year. mate in nth canterbury same, desperate times. We are dry too, old trees are dying around here in HB.
Hi i like your video
Great job with the digger.
Keep the chin up. Those prices are shocking hopefully it comes right for you soon enough.
Another great bit of work with the digger 👍.
The rams we had on our farm. They would take anyone on. Never trusted them. Dad's rule. We learned why. They're fast, too. I prefer bulls. Learned how to read body language in people and animals. XOXO 😘 🤗. ❤❤❤❤
Ah Jasper you have a woof like our Huntaway x Beardy, if only he used it for our few sheep instead of, ‘hurry up and throw the ball’ 🤣😂🤣. I joke, my sheep are so quiet they just follow me anywhere for treats, (lifestyle block of course) but man I know that bark. Love, love, love Jaspers antics. 🇳🇿. Pet rams are the worst. You’re right, never trust a ram, especially a supposed friendly one. Very sad for that couple. This is why I hate seeing sellers selling ram lambs saying they are friendly. Friendly, friggan dangerous.
👍 I was going to ask where's snowy but he made appearance in this one got my 5 year old daughter interested in your videos as we have a 7 month old terrier and she's also mad on horses. If you had a chance and the time would it possible for you to show us where your weanling cattle go to be fattened it would be very interesting to see how you do it in NZ ? Keep up the great work regards Allen.
Here in the united states cattle prices are at record highs. One rancher sold some black angus steers nine hundred pounds at two seventy two a pound. A dairy farmer sold some week Old Holstein angus cross caves. Eight hundred and fifty dollars each.
Snowy is the best 3/8ths of a sheepdog, ever.
Sad story on the senior couple . . . grew up with all farm creatures, first lesson, never trust an animal of any sort, respect, respect. I also think I might have taken on a bit of farming way back then if there was a digger on the property (ha). Cheers.
A popular picture just came to mind . . . a female rider asleep on straw, close in front of her lying horse . . . (idyllic picture) a startled horse get up with their front feet first . . .
That is just a small pipe, not a culvert.
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Yes feel the pain no better over here either
I have been watching the UK and Ireland shepards lambing at the moment - they are selling off the last of last years lambs they are getting upward of 180 pound per head - why are the NZ farmers getting so little - I did a NZ$ to Pound conversion and the lambs at NZ$110 equals 52.45 pounds they like the NZ farmers would not survive at those prices - you will need a frozen meat from the farm business to make it all pay its way
You have my father's habit, to small a culverts,after its washed out twice you will make them bigger,just like my old man.From experience a descent size at the start saves money,time and mire importantly frustration. Terrible prices for sheep,must be very hard after your big efforts