Latest addition to the family & the Lincs Wolds

James · Latest addition to the family & the Lincs Wolds

Just got back from near Market Rasen, to the Lincolnshire Wolds, to buy another Lincoln Longwool gimmer for £150

Her name is Amber

Pics tomorrow

johnreid

The Flock grows.

bessytractor

the Chantry fleet expands

James:

"left hand down a bit, all ahead full"

Amber:

"BAAAA!"

James

LOL!!

I've got nine Lincolns now, and he's reserved me another

He offered me it today, said I can take it now and pay whenever but I don't really like

Les

You will be a proper farmer soon then.

James

LOL!!

I'll be milling me own feed next year, they're eating through loads at the mo. We did about 400 hay bales, down to about 13. We're spending like £30 a week feeding the buggers.

So we'll buy a ton of barley, mill it, cut chop with me chaff cutter, Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt!

steamgranny

.............. Sheep

James

Ooo and I took pics of the Wolds to prove Lincolnshire ain't flat!

James

Pics tomorrow

Forgot to say, a bit of a milestone, our 20th sheep

Means I've reached "figgot" and have one notch

DLR

notch on the bed post?

James

Naa lad! It's an ancient method of counting sheep! Here's my Lincolnshire version. Not many people use it now a days!! It goes:

Yan
Tan
Tethera
Pethera
Pimp
Sethera
Levera
Hovera
Covera
Dik
Yan-a-dik
Tan-a-dik
Tethera-dik
Pethera-dik
Bumfit
Yan-a-bumfit
Tan-a-bumfit
Tethera-bumfit
Pethera-bumfit
Figgot

When you get to figgot, you put a notch in a stick, and start from yan again.

Graham-Jilly

congrats on the new addition James
but that counting method sounds like some swearing to me

James

It's some Celtic method or something, well it's rate old let's say that

People reckon I'm queer when I'm walking down the pens at a show going "Yan, tan, tethera..."

Graham-Jilly

yep i can imagin that

James

Well saying that, most people look at me queer anyways

Mum said I talk really queer aswell, do I?

DLR

dont say anything !!

bessytractor

you have an excellent vocabulary James, don't change it for nought (uh oh......)

Graham-Jilly

james I wouldnt change a thing mate.

Mamodman123

Graham-Jilly

dont beleive him James

James

LOL!! Ich habe pics!

made-in-england

WTF?? is that german?? am quite Francais savvy but wen it come to german im Shitezer

johnreid

wo bist sie

James

LOL Hold on pics in a mo!

James

First, some pics of the Lincolnshire Wolds! Beautiful place! Who sez Linkunsheer is flat??

made-in-england

No one ses that lincs was flat, look at that girthy mud hole in the first few pics... how much head scratching did it take to get round!!?

LMAO!! safe!

Sandman

OK Jimbo.

You've shown us some mole hills.

Now show us some real hills.

James

Oi oi Sandy

Sandman

James

Here she is!!

She's been sheared (for showing) which is why she looks bald next to me other Lincolns

James

Sandman

Nice pics Jimbo.

When is your first show???

James

10th & 11th May

Getting rid of the tups tomorrow, they're off down to a mate of our's 5 acre field with grass like a foot high to put them some weight on. It's the old fuel dump for RAF Waddington and Scampton (I reckon!)

Me tup and gimmer's wool over their eyes are all tied up with bale twine, so they don't get all cacked up! They look a rate couple of bonny buggers!

James

Just been looking through some old pics. This time last year I had 2 tups, one gimmer and one lamb!! Not I've got 2 tups, 2 yowes, 1 gimmer, 3 lambs

5 in a year!! Eeee!

Graham-Jilly

watch out for sandy and his wee drams the hangovers are a killer

James

LMFAO!!!!!

So I've heard

Graham-Jilly

yes nice pics James

James

LOL I took me tups down tonight.

I take it you've heard of the Dambuster raid and all that, well this is the place that supplied the fuel for Scampton, for the Lancasters and Vulcans. It's rate good!! I'll show you it tomorrow in the form of pics

Graham-Jilly

cool sounds great mate

James

Aye! Tis! 2 sheep on 6 acres of grass

There's all these massive tanks and great big concrete buildings, and an old train line running along side.

Graham-Jilly

wheres the pics mate

James

I'll take some tomorrow mate, me, mum AND dad are all sick

Nick

I didn't think people in Lincolnshire got sick.

James

Ahh but this is a super duper hardo bug

Nick

A GIRTHY Bug?

James

You bet

Punched me rate on the nose end! I spewed the entire contents of me guts up this morn

Nick

Any pics?

Nick

I take that last post back, he might actually show us.

James

I'll take some tomorrow if you like

Nick

James

You sure?? I've just had me tea so I'm sure I'll be seeing it again soon

Lewis

the dambusters used to practise near me james

at a place called derwent dam

James

Aye I've heard of that lad! When you think about it, loads of famous things have happened or come from Lincolnshire, and a lot of famous people have aswell!!

Nick

James

Brandt

Great Pics James.

If I keep reading your post about the sheep I am sure to pick up on what all the different names mean. LOL.

I do like the counting system but,

James

Different names? You mean like tups and all that?

I'm in some of the young handler classes at shows this year, and to be in them you have to know stuff about the breed. Depends if the judge has all day

James

BTW, as you're in Aus, keep your eye out for Lincolns. There used to be some really really good Lincolns on your side of the world!

tmuir

Its all Marinos here now, well 95% Marinos anyhow.

Here is one of our smaller ones.

James

Merino? That's a breed made by breeding the Lincoln Longwool with native Aussie sheep

James

You got any pics mate??

tmuir

James

You got any live sheep round where you live??

Nick

What about the steering wheel?

tmuir

Or some more realist ones.

Thats bluff Knoll our highest mountain in WA in the background. I've climbed it about 6 times but at only 1076 meters its not that hard a climb.

or
http://www.davidwallphoto.com/ima...E9%2DBBC2%2D84A0256EE2F8%7D%2Ejpg

Sorry, thats the best I can find at short notice

James

Ooo

Just think of me next time you see one

Did you know... the biggest Longwool weighed 434lb? That were in 1836!

Nick

How much was the girthchicken?

Les

Bluff Knoll, that is what you call a hill James.

tmuir

tmuir

James here are a couple of the lincon / Marino cross breads in OZ but there are more look here for info
http://www.awta.com.au/en/Home/Ed...rief-History-of-Wool-in-Autralia/

Corriedale

This is the main "dual purpose" breed, capable of producing a second fleece of "Comeback" wool (i.e. coarser than, but coming back towards, the merino style) and at the same time having the ability to produce an acceptable meat sheep carcass.

This breed was produced by crossing the Lincoln and Merino and then carefully selecting the progeny to fix a desirable type. The Corriedale was developed simultaneously in New Zealand and Australia and is now one of the world's most successful dual purpose breeds. It is found in significant numbers in Australia and New Zealand as well as South America, the USA, South Africa, India and parts of Asia.

In Australia it is mainly raised in the higher rainfall areas where it is more tolerant of prolonged periods of wet weather than the Merino.

In external appearance the Corriedale is a large framed, hornless sheep, with dark pigmented skin on nostrils and lips and a heavy fleece of long stapled, bulky wool.
Polwarth

This breed was developed in Victoria by starting with a Lincoln/Merino first cross, and then crossing back the Merino again. As such the Polwarth is three quarters Merino and displays many of the same visual characteristics. It does not have horns.

This breed also is sought for its ability to thrive in areas considered too wet for the Merino, and produces a long stapled fleece of approximately the same fibre diameter as the strongest wooled Merinos.

James

Aye and the Corriedale were! I had to talk about it at Heckington show last year in the young handlers. Would have got 1st, but I had to hurry up and shorten what I was saying because the Lincoln Longwool sale was starting and the sheep I wanted to buy (and bought!!) was 1st up, so instead I got 2nd out of about 5 or 6

James

Got some more pics of the Wolds to upload!

James

These pics are from between Brigg and Caistor:

DLR

that looks flat, off up there soon

James

It ain't flat lad!

Where you off?

DLR

A garden rail meet

James

Where abouts?

DLR

its in caistor somewhere

James

Caistor

Nice place

Ahm frum Caistor down to Spilsby
Frum Sleaford up to Brigg...