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God, What a week...First I was ill, then I had a tough Rugby match, now we've started lambing, first lot where triplets....we've got another one giving birth later tonight, luckly my dads offered to do the honours.

i keep seeing baby lambs about! they're sooooooooooooooooooooo cute! but we pass an abattoir every morning when we come down to Blackpool and then again on the way back and my brother insists on pointing put the little baby lambs in the field that are gonna get slaughtered :(

i keep seeing baby lambs about! they're sooooooooooooooooooooo cute! but we pass an abattoir every morning when we come down to Blackpool and then again on the way back and my brother insists on pointing put the little baby lambs in the field that are gonna get slaughtered :(
Not all of them are...but yes some will-thats just life though-isn't it.

Not all of them are...but yes some will-thats just life though-isn't it.
yeah, i know, but i don't think there's any need for my brother to point it out twice a day nearly everyday

yeah, i know, but i don't think there's any need for my brother to point it out twice a day nearly everyday
It's probly funny to see the look on your face though...
Sorry :fluffle:

It's probly funny to see the look on your face though...
Sorry :fluffle:
lol, my sister is worse than me! it usually ends in some huge argument between them lol
:fluffle:

your lucky your dads offered to lamb tonight. in my family we have to take it in turns- i ended up lambing a texel and there a bit tricky especially at 2.30am!!

your lucky your dads offered to lamb tonight. in my family we have to take it in turns- i ended up lambing a texel and there a bit tricky especially at 2.30am!!
I feel sorry for you, we had one once that started lambing at 4 in the morning-really ruined my sleep that did.

You should change to Llamas or Alpacas.
Nt only do they always crap in the same place (great for collecting manure - and that's where the potato originally came from), apparently they also only give birth during the day and when it's warm and sunny. They'll hold on otherwise.
Perfect animals, if you ask me.

I read this whole thread to myself in an English accent. :p

You should change to Llamas or Alpacas.
Nt only do they always crap in the same place (great for collecting manure - and that's where the potato originally came from), apparently they also only give birth during the day and when it's warm and sunny. They'll hold on otherwise.
Perfect animals, if you ask me.
Can you eat them?

yeah, i know, but i don't think there's any need for my brother to point it out twice a day nearly everyday
You will let me know if the lambs have stopped screaming. ...

Half the lambs started coming in January down here (Southern England) this year... I think the mild winter got the sheep a bit confused. Poor farmers had to live out in a caravan during January. Brrrr.

I read this whole thread to myself in an English accent. :p

LOL. So did I. But then, being British myself...

Can you eat them?
not sure, but you'll definitely have the alpaca market good and cornered in Yorkshire. They make for good blankets.

I read this whole thread to myself in an English accent. :p
What type?

What type?
we're americans. we can't tell the difference. just like you probably have trouble distinguishing between a chicagoan and new york accent. fuckin New Yorkers, speakin their barbaric tongues.

we're americans. we can't tell the difference. just like you probably have trouble distinguishing between a chicagoan and new york accent. fuckin New Yorkers, speakin their barbaric tongues.
I don't.

But that is just me (a lot of people I know only think there are two american accents, the American one, and the southern drawl).:p

Grew up in horse and cattle country myself. Well there were some sheep down at the Agricultural college down the road, but spring was always spent trying to get the feilds unflooded. No time for pointing out the sheep or the lambs. (Although I went by there every weekend in winter practically...)

I don't.

But that is just me (a lot of people I know only think there are two american accents, the American one, and the southern drawl).:p
maybe you do, maybe you don't, the point is that i'm assuming stuff about you based entirely on your nationality, and making sweeping generalizations about my own. :D

maybe you do, maybe you don't, the point is that i'm assuming stuff about you based entirely on your nationality, and making sweeping generalizations about my own. :D
Ahh 'tis all good. :)

I don't.

But that is just me (a lot of people I know only think there are two american accents, the American one, and the southern drawl).:p

*Nods*
Er the Yankee twang and the southern drawl.
Of course that is sort of like comparing the Scots with the English.

What type?

...a quiet one..

*Nods*
Er the Yankee twang and the southern drawl.
Of course that is sort of like comparing the Scots with the English.
Or Lancishire and Yorkshire, you can't compare them...

God, What a week...First I was ill, then I had a tough Rugby match, now we've started lambing, first lot where triplets....we've got another one giving birth later tonight, luckly my dads offered to do the honours.

As I grew up on a small family sheep ranch (just big enough to be a lot of work but just small enough that I was the ranch hand), you have my sympathies. Lambing is hard work (but rewarding.) How many head do you have?

i keep seeing baby lambs about! they're sooooooooooooooooooooo cute! but we pass an abattoir every morning when we come down to Blackpool and then again on the way back and my brother insists on pointing put the little baby lambs in the field that are gonna get slaughtered

Yikes. My sympathy.

Could be worse, though. My father used to speculate as to which of our lambs (by name) we were about to eat whenever he served lamb. Really appetizing.

You should change to Llamas or Alpacas.
Nt only do they always crap in the same place (great for collecting manure - and that's where the potato originally came from), apparently they also only give birth during the day and when it's warm and sunny. They'll hold on otherwise.
Perfect animals, if you ask me.

Llamas and Alpacas are cool. My family has had both from time to time.

Not good eatin' though.

*In Arnold Swartzenager voice*
Lets Lamb!

Could be worse, though. My father used to speculate as to which of our lambs (by name) we were about to eat whenever he served lamb. Really appetizing.

i always know which of my pet lambs i'm about to eat. my family breed the sheep, my dad takes them to the abbattoir, where my boyfriend kills them and cuts them up, so i can pack them to take home and have for tea.
my sick but true life!

i always know which of my pet lambs i'm about to eat. my family breed the sheep, my dad takes them to the abbattoir, where my boyfriend kills them and cuts them up, so i can pack them to take home and have for tea.
my sick but true life!

I am so glad that my family really just focused on raspberries and grain. Livestock: one dog, and the occassional horse put up in the stable by someone who was 'looking' for a bit of farmland.

I know how attached I got to my dog. I'm not sure I could eat something I put a name on.

Although I must say fresh lamb chops sound good right about now... Unfortunatly the South (U.S.) is only known for frying chickens, pork and beef.