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Old 14-03-2016, 20:16
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Great drama as Jumbo the calf manages to take his first breath
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Old 15-03-2016, 14:23
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How distressing was that Poor little thing. What a welcome into the world.

I am really enjoing this and was shocked at how much the ewes and rams go for
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Old 15-03-2016, 18:10
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This Farming Life on BBC2 tonight at 7pm and every Monday Tuesday and Wednesday through out March .
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Old 15-03-2016, 18:29
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I watched most of them last week but do keep forgetting they are on.

I only started watching as I normally watch The One Show but it was all about Sports Relief last week.

This is abit of a gem.
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Old 15-03-2016, 18:59
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I watched most of them last week but do keep forgetting they are on.

I only started watching as I normally watch The One Show but it was all about Sports Relief last week.

This is abit of a gem.
I only found it yesterday while channel hopping , was hooked straight away
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Old 15-03-2016, 19:33
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Duchess is heading for steak pie.
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Old 15-03-2016, 19:42
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Duchess is heading for steak pie.

And the little premature calf


That landlady is not going to be happy
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Old 15-03-2016, 19:43
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I only found it yesterday while channel hopping , was hooked straight away
I enjoy programmes like this as sad as they can be.



The size of those bulls
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Old 15-03-2016, 19:50
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This is not one of the best episode.
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Old 15-03-2016, 20:08
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Duchess is heading for steak pie.
Her problem was she could have big calves but with only two teats she would have enough milk to keep a calf alive
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Old 15-03-2016, 20:12
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Well that was upsetting.
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Old 15-03-2016, 21:46
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This is not one of the best episode.
Thing is that's what farming can be like. I'm really enjoying this show. And it's a taste of just what farmers have to go through just do we can enjoy our steak and lamb chops.

Just goes to show the countryside is not a theme park.
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Old 15-03-2016, 22:16
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Thing is that's what farming can be like. I'm really enjoying this show. And it's a taste of just what farmers have to go through just do we can enjoy our steak and lamb chops.

Just goes to show the countryside is not a theme park.

I know. I am a born and bred country yokel but things still upset me.
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Old 16-03-2016, 13:48
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Poor guy, £1600 carcase price for a bull that he could have sold for £3800 two months earlier if it didn't have a £4000 reserve. Tough gamble.

Good series, I hope it starts looking at dairy and arable farms as well.
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Old 16-03-2016, 13:59
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I am really enjoing this and was shocked at how much the ewes and rams go for
Well, they are the crème-de-la-crème of the breeds. It's the extreme high end of the values.

But it also helps show, I think - for those who didn't understand at the time - the absolute devastation and sadness suffered by farmers who saw entire breeding flocks and herds wiped out by foot and mouth 12 years ago. When you've invested 50 years in breeding the best possible animals, simple compensation can't replace them.

These animals aren't just another joint of lamb or beef, they're the result of generations of careful breeding and animal husbandry. And when Jumbo was being born, it was so obvious to me that those farmers cared on a personal, emotional level - it's certainly not all about the money.
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Old 16-03-2016, 19:47
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Gunslinger firing blanks.
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Old 16-03-2016, 19:57
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5,000 guineas is £5,250, not £5,500.
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Old 21-03-2016, 20:14
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I thought this finished last week in the Christmas episode.

I liked the sheep bingo

Sad that the little lamb did not make it. I thought they would have taken it in their home to give it a chance.
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Old 21-03-2016, 20:19
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Poor guy, £1600 carcase price for a bull that he could have sold for £3800 two months earlier if it didn't have a £4000 reserve. Tough gamble.

Good series, I hope it starts looking at dairy and arable farms as well.
Because the reserve was set at £4000, it's very likely that there was no bidder at £3800.

Knowing the farmer would not sell below £4000, the auctioneer was probably generating "fake" bids simply to get the bull to the price that the farmer would sell the bull at.
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Old 21-03-2016, 20:21
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Well, they are the crème-de-la-crème of the breeds. It's the extreme high end of the values.

But it also helps show, I think - for those who didn't understand at the time - the absolute devastation and sadness suffered by farmers who saw entire breeding flocks and herds wiped out by foot and mouth 12 years ago. When you've invested 50 years in breeding the best possible animals, simple compensation can't replace them.

These animals aren't just another joint of lamb or beef, they're the result of generations of careful breeding and animal husbandry. And when Jumbo was being born, it was so obvious to me that those farmers cared on a personal, emotional level - it's certainly not all about the money.


That was horrendous and remember it well. No money can replace a lifetime of good breeding.

I was disgusted at how the supermarket rule what they want to sell. As if the farmers don't struggle enough. I am sure it is not the GBP who make these demands. Glad I do not get my meat from supermarkets.
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Old 21-03-2016, 20:43
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This is an entertaining and informative series.
No "in your face wavey-handed presenter," attempting to upstage the subjects, nor is it pitched at a "Blue Peter" level, as are so many other documentaries these days.
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Old 22-03-2016, 13:21
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I thought this finished last week in the Christmas episode.

I liked the sheep bingo

Sad that the little lamb did not make it. I thought they would have taken it in their home to give it a chance.
They fed it and kept it warm and left it in the care of its mother, so taking it indoors wouldn't have added anything to that.

I read somewhere that sheep have two ambitions in life; to escape and to die quickly. A farmer who wrote a column in my local newspaper used to marvel at the inventive way in which sheep managed to depart this life. He himself swears he once saw a new born lamb climb into a water butt and drown itself.
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Old 22-03-2016, 16:09
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They fed it and kept it warm and left it in the care of its mother, so taking it indoors wouldn't have added anything to that.

I read somewhere that sheep have two ambitions in life; to escape and to die quickly. A farmer who wrote a column in my local newspaper used to marvel at the inventive way in which sheep managed to depart this life. He himself swears he once saw a new born lamb climb into a water butt and drown itself.

Sometimes that is not enough. We took on a lamb that the mother rejected and after feeding her every hour on the hour she grew up big and healthy.

Re BIB. Why did he not try to save the lamb. Sound awful to watch it do that
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Old 22-03-2016, 17:15
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Sometimes that is not enough. We took on a lamb that the mother rejected and after feeding her every hour on the hour she grew up big and healthy.

Re BIB. Why did he not try to save the lamb. Sound awful to watch it do that
He was joking...
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Old 22-03-2016, 20:45
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An odd sense of humour
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