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[Eve]

How is it that my body feels broken, but barely anything has been done!
On the farm side we've hardly started; we've managed to sure up the boundary, mark out the chicken paddock, half build a coop, taken delivery of the initial fencing needed and tried to stay awake at night to work out a business plan, website, logo and to try and make sense of the 28 day notice!
We've done more work on the stables side (only have 6 weeks left until our tenancy ends on our current yard), we've lucked out and they resurfaced the bypass just down the road from us so 200 tonnes of road planings are currently being moved by hand to create our new yard! Concrete bases are down ready for some much needed storage and the fencing has been pegged out. Today was spent creosoting the bottom of the posts ready for them to go in at the weekend!
We now have our CPH number, but have a bit of a dilemma... We currently have 4 lambs, they came to us at 7 days old with paperwork and ear tags (not in), the plan was to keep them with my neighbour and use their CPH number, but it didn't quite work out like that! 😕 So I now have 4 five month old lambs that I failed to notify movement on... Having never dealt with any livestock we're unsure of how lenient they would be if we asked to register them now. Should I try and legitimise them or start again with new stock?
Xx

[adrian007]

Sounds to me like you are doing fantastically well!

 

Except the lambs - no idea about those. Can you register them with next door then move them to you?

 

200 tonnes - Awesome luck - I need to say from experience of 50 tonnes or so - leave it be until you can get it all done and get a machine - that will take many hours and those hours could be much better spent doing other stuff that you are frustrated about.

 

Or get a man in with a JCB, or get a mini digger and dumper for a week - learning to use a mini digger takes 3 days to be fluent.

 

Don't be stressed about a logo - design them, play with them, but don't decide until you are a few months in and under less pressure - If you set a deadline of say, Easter time, you'll have many many ideas in the logo department by then, and you'll see other peoples logo's and what you like about them and what you don't.

 

Website - we used a Blog - wordpress. they are easy to customise and when you decide as we did we had outgrown the old design, we just picked another and the content all crossed over automatically.

 

Business plan - sorry - no easy way on that :-)

 

Good luck and well done so far!

[elegantstorm]

Get up early, coffee, croissant and paperwork for a couple of hours before heading outside.  End of the day is for dinner and pass out on the sofa!

[j and H]

its all fun and games….well apart from smacking your head with a post knocker..yes i seen stars…also chasing sheep around a field is fun

 

wouldn't change a thing though…..

[tonydockers]

Congratulations on what you have achieved

i would eat the sheep myself, home kill, my experience is no government department are friendly and if they can find a way to extract cash from you then they will

worth an ask though without giving your details

 

defo machine the plainings....keep those years of energy for other jobs like fencing.

 

good luck and keep up the hard work

[tim'rous beastie]

Are those the stray lambs which just appeared yesterday morning!?!