Rules, Rules, and Regulations!

Last Thursday, off Philip went to see if he could get some grass keep at an auction in Llangunlau. He succeeded. We intend to take our hogs to summer there, which gives us more ground to graze, and also hopefully more grass therefore for the Hoggs to grow before they go to the Tup in the autumn, ready to lamb for their first time next spring. Good job Philip thought to phone the ministry to check on movement rules, it appears we have to have a different licence to an ordinary movement licence, as the farmer has let several different Fields to different farmers technically they can't all move their stock onto the fields together as there should be movement restrictions within a certain period, but this can be got around, we also needed to update our movement licence as we sold some ground last year where we used to transport stock there by trailer, which we don't need any more, so what we thought was a good move means filling in more paperwork, you really wouldn't credit it.
So Colin & Wyn have been busy tailing the Hoggs today ready for their move. They have to be tailed because we know there is a lot of grass on the new grazing ground, and as with anything good, if you have too much of it it is likely to go straight through you!! and if you have a long woolly tail there it gets all over it and then the flys will lay maggots on it in the hot weather, attracted by your eau de muck, next you have a Hogg with a maggot infestation which is really nasty, so this should hold them at bay until we dip them.