Lambing what?

[meenaghman]

effing sheep. not cute just plain bloody stupid. Many will have experiences of sheep on a mountain road suddenly darting out in front of them. Did it show any footage of sheep who think they've lambed but the lamb is still dead inside them. Or what about those that lamb and then abandon it, but the mother keeps bleating away looking for her "proper" lamb. Yes lambs, really cute with their s h * t covered maggoty arses when the flies get at them. And sheep farming.. the smell of sheep dip pervading the country side and ould farmers clothes when they come into the pub, not to mention the environmental impact of the stuff. Then there's foot rot, orph, scrapie .. you name it sheep get it.a I enjoy lamb/mutton as a dish, but give me bovine over ovine any day for working with on a farm.

 

[Kirstie]

Sheep are some of the dimmest animals on the planet and sheep farming is a grim occupation. Although I couldn't kill and butcher one myself (my other half can) I would sooner eat one that look at one and go 'aw'. Anyone who MTBs at this time of year may well be familiar with the phenomenon of being followed by a lamb for miles because it thinks anyone bigger than it is its parent. D'uh!

In fairness the only bit of that lambing show I watched was where a newborn lamb suffocated because its lungs hadn't formed - they tried to revive it but they couldn't. Cue Kate Humble in tears - nature dishes out some harsh realities!

 

[Fnaar]

Isn't that the phrase they use of a mare at a stud farm

 

[Fnaar]

And I learned that just before tupping, the ewes get a 'Brazilian'...

Ewwww! Or should that be "ewe"?

 

[ianrauk]

you don't like Sheep then?

effing sheep. not cute just plain bloody stupid. Many will have experiences of sheep on a mountain road suddenly darting out in front of them. Did it show any footage of sheep who think they've lambed but the lamb is still dead inside them. Or what about those that lamb and then abandon it, but the mother keeps bleating away looking for her "proper" lamb. Yes lambs, really cute with their s h * t covered maggoty arses when the flies get at them. And sheep farming.. the smell of sheep dip pervading the country side and ould farmers clothes when they come into the pub, not to mention the environmental impact of the stuff. Then there's foot rot, orph, scrapie .. you name it sheep get it.a I enjoy lamb/mutton as a dish, but give me bovine over ovine any day for working with on a farm.

 

[tyred]

You don't want to watch lambing on telly, you need to get out there at 2am on a March morning to experience it for yourselves.

Been there, done that.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I watched it!

I think Kate Humble's a very good presenter and seems to throw herself wholeheartedly into anything she does. It's alway's interesting to see how our farmers are coping with the economy in such turmoil - good on them, they've got a tough life.

Ms RT watched it. I said "oh, I'm not watching that, doesn't sound like my sort of thing at all", but I found myself paying less and less attention to my book and more and more to the telly. I thought it was very good, well presented and probably necessary in a world where many people think meat is somehow made in factories or something.

 

[ChrisKH]

I spent six weeks on a sheep farm once. The last night there I was revising for a tax exam and the sheep were making an absolute racket. In walks farmer, who said in his best Welsh brogue "Don't mind the sheep, I took their lambs to market today".

 

[Fnaar]

I thought it was very good, well presented and probably necessary in a world where many people think meat is somehow made in factories or something.

Ahem. Sorry to correct you, RM, but see here:
http://www.themeatfactoryoutlet.com/

 

[Rhythm Thief]

RM ??

 

[Fnaar]

RM ??

RT, of course. You Rhythm Monkey, you.

 

[Blue]

effing sheep. not cute just plain bloody stupid. Many will have experiences of sheep on a mountain road suddenly darting out in front of them. Did it show any footage of sheep who think they've lambed but the lamb is still dead inside them. Or what about those that lamb and then abandon it, but the mother keeps bleating away looking for her "proper" lamb. Yes lambs, really cute with their s h * t covered maggoty arses when the flies get at them. And sheep farming.. the smell of sheep dip pervading the country side and ould farmers clothes when they come into the pub, not to mention the environmental impact of the stuff. Then there's foot rot, orph, scrapie .. you name it sheep get it.a I enjoy lamb/mutton as a dish, but give me bovine over ovine any day for working with on a farm.

Are you, and others, comparing your own intellect/s to that of an animal?

Who is the unusual item on the mountain road? Not the sheep, I think!

How do you expect to enjoy your lamb/mutton without the farming of sheep?

Some of you people should take a long hard look at the cr@p that you write.

 

[Arch]

I'm always amused when people call animals dim - they are just as intellectual as they need to be - in the case of a sheep, it needs to know what to eat, and what to run away from. Ok, within a species, some will be smarter than others, but they are all 'stupid' by comparison with us, with our speech and opposable thumbs. On the other hand, they aren't generally obese, and killing each other for little reason, so maybe they have the edge after all. Sheep may not understand bicycles, but then we only invented them a couple of hundred years ago. Evolution works rather more slowly than that.

A vet friend of mine told me, for example, that horses have the intellect of a human three year old - makes perfect sense - enough to have some free will, and to exercise it when they feel like it, but still prone to 'irrational' fears.

 

[Blue]

Getting back to the OP, I found the prog very interesting. Both of my parents were born into farming families and I spent all of my childhood summers on the family farms. I thought the shows gave a very realistic and interesting insight into an aspect of farming life.

Like many cyclists, I enjoy riding along country roads - muck, livestock and all. Don't knock things just because you fail to understand the contribution they make - that diminishes the person making the comment, rather than the person/thing that is the subject of the comment.

 

[rich p]

Are you, and others, comparing your own intellect/s to that of an animal?

Who is the unusual item on the mountain road? Not the sheep, I think!

How do you expect to enjoy your lamb/mutton without the farming of sheep?

Some of you people should take a long hard look at the cr@p that you write.

I freely admit that most of what I write on here is carp but I draw the line at re-reading it