Bonny you are talking absolute nonsense to suggest sheep farmers are only busy at lambing time.
Please feel free to come to our farm any day of the year an we will show you how busy it always is. Farming doesn't have holidays Christmas Day we are still out feeding livestock an checking...
I'm not sure a lot of you understand quite how far some of these sheep stay from farm buildings or how high up they are either.
I know that this snow has also cause a lot of problems at low land ground as well due to drifting.
There are some posts on this thread that show how little the...
SusieT these animals are hill animals bred to live out on hills, why on earth would we build sheds for ewes in case it ever happened to snow to these extremes ?! Lots of us were completely caught out by the drifts! It's not like we left them out intentionally to die cause we couldn't be bothered...
Sorry not read all of this ridiculous thread don't have the time right now but was referred to it by a friend.
This is a highly insulting thread to me I don't understand how some people can be so bl**dy stupid.
How OP do you suggest we bring hundreds of heavily pregnant sheep in from hills...