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SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the FarmaFiles with your hosts, Abby and Maria. We're back after a couple weeks off. So what went down? Um the kids' birthdays happened on the Friday.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

No, admittedly, I'd be pulled out of the first the week that we were meant to film because I just had a lot on. We were scheduled to be there on the Friday, and I messaged Maria the day before being like, Maria, it's actually bank holiday on Monday. Is there any chance that we can move it to next week? And we were like, Yeah, it's fine, it's bank holiday Monday. We'll miss one because bank holiday, everyone. And then we moved it to the following Friday. Anyway, a couple days later, I messaged Maria being like, um, Maria, isn't Friday both of your kids' birthdays? I don't think we're gonna be filming that day. Yeah, so we missed two weeks. Yeah. But we're back. So yeah, obviously we weren't gonna film on the kids' birthdays, so we just gave it a little miss.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Yeah, so we took really sorry we missed you guys for two whole weeks.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

We took we took a little break. We took a little break, and then now we've got to find our flow again. Absolutely. We'll get onto it. We actually sorted out the tech quite quickly today, I must say.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

I feel like it leveled out quite well, like we sorted different things at the same time, so it worked okay. Yeah, usually there's at least one technical problem. There is, but today, touch wood, we've been okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

I know we're looking we're looking at the screen now, like what's gonna go wrong? Drum roll for the disaster. I know, I know. So we thought for this week we would have a bit of a catch-up. What have we been up to? How things have been going for the last five weeks. Shit.

SPEAKER_02 2:01

Yeah, it's been a very long time.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Yeah, actually, when you put it like that, it's over a month.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Yeah, well over.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

What was happening when we last spoke?

SPEAKER_02 2:10

I had only just started lambing. Now I'm about to start lambing again. Yeah. Do you do that so that you then get into the 9 to 12 month like category?

SPEAKER_01 2:22

No, no, no, no. This was literally I bought them later on. No, no, no, I bought them next year. I bought them late on and I put them straight to Ram because it was just easier that they still lambed in April than not lamb at all, basically. Yeah, fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

So I might pay off next year. You might get in that like middle age category.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

To be fair, for the shows that I go like here, which to be fair I only go to Devon County currently, um, it's just from the 1st of January.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

Oh, is it nothing?

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah, yeah. So they're sort of like five months old ish when I take them to Devon County. So that works out quite well. But then my f what would have been my favourite, probably I don't know, that last one that was born. I'm loving just the way he's standing and like he's just quite a performer. Um really proud. Unfortunately, he's only like I think just about to turn six weeks. But a good judge should be able to differentiate between ages. I know. I know, so that's why I'm still gonna take him.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

But yeah. See how they go. Why not? See how they go. It might change your complete opinion to taking younger lambs. I know. I'm just wait and see. I do think a good judge should be able to tell. Like, a good judge should also be able to tell how many times the sheep's been shared or yeah, but then I do think part of showing is you should get your timings right. Do you think?

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

I think it very much depends on your setup. Like, we'd probably be a lot warmer than so we could push it back another month if we wanted.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

Or forward.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Personally, I'd say I don't know whether it's correct in the valet world, but I would personally say no, you're meant to be competing for that show, you've shared for that show, blah blah blah. Your lambing should be timed for that show, and you should try and be the biggest in your class. Reckon? Yeah. Maybe, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:19

Oh, I think so. We'll go in. I haven't done a year showing yet, so we'll go into that and review it. Side note Um, the finger at the bum trick. I doubted it in an episode, and I was lambing one of my borders, and I thought, oh, she's a little bit tight, and the lamb is very big. I used the finger at the bum trick. She did it. What people weren't telling you with the finger at the bum trick is you also pushed the lamb's head to get it out.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Like hook it.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Yeah, no one tells you that. They just say stick a finger up its bum.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Just one or two.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Oh, I went a bit cheeky, done two.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Oh, steady. Steady.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

So um it worked really well. The lamb just popped out. Oh really, really well.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Is that a commercial or border? Borders. Border. Lovely. So it worked quite well. Oh see, this this little podcaster's actually come in handy. To be fair, I did the whole like enema thing and stuff. So I've actually used some of the tips. We're gonna have to do it again next year.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

Yeah. Also had some E. coli. Um, I say some, one E. coli, and I used the tips we had from the Lamy podcast with that. Oh, and it worked.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Fantum of knowledge. Woohoo! So we're gonna have to go back, but also put in the ones that we learnt from last year. So if somebody only listens to that episode, that all the tips are in one episode. They are.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

We just have to sprinkle them in. Yeah. Someone also messaged me asking what MV means because we've mentioned it quite a lot. Yeah. Um, I believe it's my divisor. My Dvisler.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

I'm gonna be honest, I don't fully know because I'm not MV accredited, so I don't pay attention.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

So it's basically a disease that can slowly but surely wear your sheep down. Um, it affects their respiratory system and other parts of their function, and it's like a disease that can they can get when they're young and then it stays with them. Almost like, you know, like yoni in cattle. Yeah. Or John's disease, they're the same thing. Um, almost like that. Like you don't notice it until they're later, it's very slow acting. Yeah. The yoni stays dormant. I don't know if that's yours as well.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yours, it's a lot more majority of the breeders are MV accredited, so you just sort of stay with that. Um, whereas um I'd probably say I might be wrong in saying this, but I think it's uh maybe around 10% MV accredited on valets. Oh really? I wouldn't say it's that much. So it really, really doesn't matter if you are or not. Last year when I went to Devon County, there was only one valet breeder in the MV tent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:52

That's mental, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 6:54

So I like I said, around me, it's a lot more rare, but I'm not saying that everyone else is the same. Just like I said, it's just quite hard to then build your stock when there's such more DNA lines and genetics. You're limiting yourself a lot more if you then become MV accredited.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Do you think you're limiting yourself?

SPEAKER_01 7:19

Yeah, because you can't bring in certain bloodlines.

SPEAKER_02 7:22

I suppose it depends if you have an isolation area or not.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yes, and if it does have it, then you've got a whole yeah, you just kind of like sell it again, don't you? Yeah, but if you've bought it at auction for quite a lot of money because it's one of the meant to be one of the top brands, where do you lie then? Next top bidder. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Like I said, I find it easier if I'm not.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

I'm sure I'll come across that one soon. Yeah, I'm not envy accredited. I've not dealt with the hassle. Um, we should also probably explain what it it is, like what it means for the farmer. So, like for me, it means that I've now registered. Um, it means that my sheep are isolated away from all other sheep that are not tested for envy, um, ensuring that they don't have them. So I've got to have my sheep fenced two lots of fences, stock fence, away from any other sheep. So that's basically like you've got a fence, then you've got a hedge, then you've got another fence, like you typically have anyway.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:23

Um, there's no like touching, like, so their gateways can't touch or anything. Um, they have no contact, all your equipment has to be different. So, like from your castration equipment to your weighing equipment, like it all has to be different or completely and utterly sterilised.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Which is fine for people like me that have got a few sheep.

unknown 8:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Whereas for you, actually, it's a lot harder having your commercial sheep, which obviously you've got all the little bits for, and then you have to wash and sterilise when you need to use it for your border licers.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Although I've just gone with the role of I'm gonna start from scratch with them.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

So Matthews.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Does everything have like a border lester sign on it if it's just for the border licers?

SPEAKER_02 9:06

Um, so I've got a completely different lambing area. So we've got three yards. Um, it sounds bougie, it's not, it's just literally three levels to the farmyard.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Um, and in the top level is what we call the Maui, and that is where my lambs and sheep are. No other sheep have ever been up there. Yeah. Um, so it's like a fresh sheep area that is just for my sheep. Um, and then when they go out to field, they go to Matthew's farm. Um, Matthew's got some land that is just for cattle. He doesn't have any sheep. Um, so they go in there. So they go in with any cattle or just we haven't had them in with cattle, no, because you can get like um like worm burdens can be higher because of the transfer over to cattle and sheep. Yeah. Like you can create a bit of a problem there. At home though, like with the commercials, we run some like some groups of sheep with some of the cattle.

SPEAKER_01 9:55

Some people agree with it, some people don't. Obviously, I don't again have that problem because we don't graze anything. The only thing that grazes is the valets. Yeah. So it doesn't so actually for me, if I wanted to go envy accredited, it would be very easy. Just me bringing in the other stuff, it would be a lot more complicated. And unfortunately, Abby likes to buy sheep. So it's easier for Abby when buying sheep if they're not not envy.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

Yes. The only thing I had to do, just so I could like fully allow the listener to understand, is I had to get the vet out to do a full inspection of the area. So, like, I don't know what you call it, uh, I don't know, like a property inspection kind of thing where the sheep are gonna be, making sure there's no other sheep nearby, making sure you've got the double fencing there. Um and it's all just fully isolated. Yeah, basically, that's all it is. Um, then when that was signed off, I had to pay for that. And then I can I be rude? How much? Oh, I don't know. Um, I want to say about 60.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

Okay, not so much.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Maybe I could be really wrong there. Um, if my vet kitties listening, please correct me. Yeah. Um, and then after that, I had to send it off to the MV accreditation. I don't know, I'm gonna call them a board. They're not, it's like a big group of health professionals within like the hierarchy up there somewhere. Yeah. Um sent it off to M. Yeah, and then I had to pay again.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

And how much how much in total is that?

SPEAKER_02 11:19

It was about £80.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

Right. We're racking it up here.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Yeah, £140. Yep, good mass. Um, and then I've done all that and they said, Yeah, that's all well and good. Um, you're all good to go. And then in six months' time, like since submitting the paperwork and having like since buying the sheet basically.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:39

Six months' time, I have to then blood test all the sheep. I'll let you know how much that costs when we get round to that.

SPEAKER_01 11:45

And then by the time you've bought everything new for your sheet. Yeah, gotta do it all over again. Have you bought a stand in the end?

SPEAKER_02 11:53

A show stand?

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:54

No, I ended up having quite a lot of bills to pay, so I didn't end up buying one.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

That's fair enough. That's absolutely fair enough. I just didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

I've just realized. One of my socks is yellow, one of them's white. That's like a neon green. Yeah, that's turmeric.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. For anyone who's not watching, Maria's got country moose socks on. Um you even see that. Are you gonna zoom in in the YouTube video? I don't know whether I can. Maybe I'll just take a picture later.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Um, and they're blues, Belgian blues, country moose socks. Yeah, one of them's like a lovely creamy colour cow with grey, and the other one is like a highlighter yellow with grey. Um, Samuel's playing with turmeric, he got into my spice cabinet, um, and he used my sock to clear it up, and I put it in the washing machine, and the sock was also a little bit wet because he had put it in some water first to clear it, which is quite a good incentive for a toddler, really, isn't it? Um, and then I put it in the wash and I didn't think anything about it, didn't put a colour catcher in or anything. Everything of this same material, like so you notice how it's only the white bit there.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Matthew's got a really nice pair of underwear. The only the band only the band of it at the top, like the waistband, is yellow.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Let me guess. It's got one pair of boxes that doesn't have holes in it. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 13:18

Um, it's like really weird. That's like how it's got some lovely like pink tights. And uh only some of the tights is yellow, like where it's been like double stitched to make pretty patterns in them. Um yeah, it's weird. It's like some certain materials are staying white and others aren't. Yeah, so although some fabrics have white on them and like and like they have two lots of white, only the one white in that material will be highlighter yellow.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Don't put turmeric in your wash.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

It was just one of those I looked down and I was like, it's a fluorescent yellow Belgian blue. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

I've just seen one of them before. Really annoying. These are my favourite pair of socks.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

I just thought the colours are quite cute. Oh, that's a hairy leg.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Yeah, we're gonna have to get you a new pair, I think.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Belgium blue socks.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

Yeah. Yeah. In other news, we've got some new arrivals on the farm. You have. Surprise! What is that? So it wouldn't be uh farm her files episode returning if it wasn't for the fact that we have technical problems. I spoke too soon when I say we set up really quickly. So I do excuse, we went from HD, we're now back to shit quality for our camera watches only, though.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

They're just as important, thank you. Okay. You don't they never said they weren't. I'm really sorry if that came across as me saying you weren't as important. That is not what I meant at all. You're a very valued individual. But Murray's being fucking rude. I didn't intend for it to be rude.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Anyway. Tell me what these animals are. They're not technically uh not technically mine, but they are animals then.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

Um six of them. They can't be cows because you've already got them. Yeah. Uh they can't be sheep because you've already got sheep. You've already got horses.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

I don't have it yet. Goats. Nope. Oh no, I can never deal with a goat. Are they livestock animals?

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Yep. Yes. You said that right, I'm surely. Pigs. No. Pigs, goats. Um sheet cows. Chickens? Chickens.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Chicken! I love a chicken chick. I was like, hold on, they're technically livestock, but you could call them poultry really rather than livestock. Yeah, po poultry is livestock though, isn't it? Well, so that's where I was like, kind of like, hold on, does it go under the livestock category or does it go under the poultry category? And that's why I looked at you a bit funny. Well, that's why I looked at you a bit funny, because I was like, hold on, actually, I don't know where we where we lie with this one. Just X batteries?

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Not batteries, you know what I mean? X layers.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Yeah. Um, so six rescue chickens.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Well they what you rescue them from?

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Being murdered. Being murdered. I couldn't care. I've got a whole chicken out there to eat for my lunch. Um honestly.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

But they surely those type of chickens wouldn't be eaten for meat. That's where meat chicken, boiler chickens come in. Yeah, but they're still gonna be killed off.

SPEAKER_01 16:40

Yeah. After 18 months they're killed off anyway. I always thought they always just re-hone them. Not all of them. I think not all of them. Not all laying chickens go to rehome my little chicken cow bubble. Yeah, you carry on. So no, um I believe I can say what I'm about to say because I have told Ottie's mum this. Um so basically two of them are Otties, two of them are Scott's dads, and two of them are Scott's step mums. Um Scott's step mum is a vegetarian, so that's why she wanted to rescue chickens, and technically, like they're Otties or what have you. Um Ottie has named her too. Um we have what's uh I can't remember one of hers. Um anyway, I only remember one name of it. A Purple Rose. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a stripper. Yes. It's a stripper's name. Like a bonnie blue.

SPEAKER_02 17:47

Yeah. Purple rose. That is the first thing my mum went, did you see my face then when you told me the name?

SPEAKER_01 17:53

So I literally went to Ottie's mum being like, that's more like a stripper's name. Like, where the hell has she been hanging out? Clearly with her auntie. And bless them, they were like, Oh, which one's purple rose then? And I was like, clearly the one with the least amount of feathers. And so yeah, um, so funny. Oh, I can't remember what. Um there's a chunky one, I think he's called chunky. He. She, they're all she's. Um, what that's really gonna annoy me that I can't think of what it is. Honestly, though, she loves going down and checking out how many eggs in the morning, though. Oh bless her.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Ottie was born to be a farmer.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Oh, she still wants to be a doctor, but I'm adamant I will get her as a farmer.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

I'm adamant I will make her Ella.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Ella. Ella, I finally found the video. It's Ella and Purple Rose, which is really rogue because why is Ella so fine and then you have Purple Rose?

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Well, Ella's her real name. Purple Rosa.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

No, because she's got two like two chickens. But it is a stripper's name. Anyway, so she's got a little stamp, stamps her eggs in the morning. Oh, does she? Yeah. With a date on them. No, we don't date them. What did she stamp them on? Ottie's eggs bully Barton. Oh, that's so cute. I know. That is so cute. So she's very happy doing her stamps. I've had a video. Also, I sorted out a white coat for Devon County. Have you? Yeah. She she's nearly drowning in it. But it will fit next year. I was like, I'd rather get a one now that sees her through to next year because if only it's only going to be two shows that she'll go to this year. Which ones are you doing, Totteness? Totteness and Devon County. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

We um got Samuel a show coat for Christmas. So hopefully. So the shows in my area do from do um the shows in my area do sh young handlers from under four? Yeah. From like under four classes.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

So I would have put her in at Devon County, but you need hold or train sheep, which valets aren't. Um, or my valets aren't anyway. Do you plan to hold or train them? No, you don't have to. You don't have to. Yeah. Now that's a whole different problem within the area. There are people that literally they dog collar them and walk them around because it's actually better for their faces, which if I was gonna do it, that's the way I'd do it. But I'm gonna be honest, you're in a ring, you get them in the ring, you can get them in the ring, drag them in however you want. Um, as long as you're not picking them up and putting them in. You show them they stand square, you don't walk them around. Um, like occasionally the judge might go like push them around to walk around, not necessarily lead them. And then you can take them out however you want. It's not a it's not a how well trained is your sheep show. So anyway, I'm therefore none of my sheep are holster trained.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

So I'm not gonna chuck you telling me I'm putting in hours and hours of work and your sheep don't even have to be hold-trained.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Get a better breed, mate. Get a better breed. Um, so yeah, so I'm not obviously gonna put her in a class where there's like pristine commercial sheep.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Like I'm just gonna leave her to I suppose as well, because your sheep have lighter carcasses, they're easier to move around.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

You say that, but Lenny is over a hundred and something kilos. Yeah, so he's a bit stockier. Big boy. And when he puts his feet down a big boy. When he puts his feet down, he ain't going nowhere. Do you think training him might make it easier or no? Lenny isn't going. He's not. No, Kraken's going and he's oh Kraken's an angel. I trust him with my life. Really? Yeah. No, but he's got such big horns and like obviously with Ottie and stuff. Yeah, it just makes it. That boy would rather have his hair brushed than eat his breakfast.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Really?

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Proper people pleaser.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Oh, he's gorgeous and he just sits there and he snuggles into you. Oh, it's just a good thing. But obviously it's really hard because of his horns. Like he's got ginormous horns. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

Um and then I don't think I'd ever want to deal with a horned breed like for myself. Why? I think it makes handling a lot harder. It makes it easier. You've got something to hold on to. Yeah, what about if you have like a pen full of them and you have to handle them? Surely you get bruised all the time. I've seen you get hit by them before.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Yeah. But when I need to catch one, yeah. Easy as anything.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

I'll um we'll put that in the box of maybe we'll persuade Maria later. What horned breeze would you even think of? Valet black nose because we're talking about them.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Would you actually have a valet? No, you wouldn't. No, I wouldn't. You hate them. I don't hate them. I just don't they're not your commercial breeze.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

I don't think I don't like I don't know how to say it because I think they're very cute. They've not got enough meat on them. Yeah, I'm very much a meat sheep person rather than a wolf sheep person.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

Does that make sense? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Um I'm not saying I don't like them, it's just I wouldn't have them.

SPEAKER_01 23:23

Yeah, but that that's fair. Fair enough. We'll let you off. Thanks. We'll let you off. Um so going on to Samuel's white coat, did you get that for his birthday? That was for Christmas. That was for Christmas. So what did you get him and Harriet for their birthdays?

SPEAKER_02 23:38

They are having a massive climbing frame. Oh, it's not finished yet. Yeah. Because the company I have ordered from promised they didn't, it does not say on their website approximate two-day delivery. It says guaranteed two-day delivery. Right. So with that, I was like, oh, perfect. I will go with this company. I'll spend my money with them. Yeah. It still hasn't turned up, and I ordered it a week before their birthday. So it should have been there with three days to set it up. That's two weeks ago. Yeah. Have you been scammed? No, I haven't been scammed. They're too big of a company to be scammed. I'm not going to mention them either because they could be really good with someone else and it's just bad luck.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

Yeah. Um have you spoken to them?

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Yeah, I've spoken to them. They've offered me 10% back, and I I personally don't think well take the 10% anyway. Yeah, I kind of think it's an insult at this point though. Like if what have they said? Samuel's still asking for his present. Oh. And because of that, I think it's very much an insult. It was also for the holiday letter use as well. That we've got a home. So where's their climbing frame? Not there. They've come for a week, they've gone again. No climbing frame for these young kids.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Oh, so where is the company said it is?

SPEAKER_02 24:52

Or what's happening? Um, they've said it's no longer their liability because it's in transit. Whereas actually, when you look into the law, their contract is my contract is with them, not the delivery. Not the delivery people.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

They assign the delivery, so therefore it's them.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

Yes, I haven't seen it yet. Not there. Oh, well.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

They've said they're compact on it.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Get an I AI um complaint email going.

SPEAKER_02 25:17

You friggin' love a bit of AI, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

No, I'm just not I'm a bit brain no longer brains, it's just AI.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

No, no, no, no. Just with emails like that, I can say things a bit too harshly or not correctly, or I'm not too sure what to say. So sometimes I chuck it in. I do change it. Like I don't sit there and go copy and paste.

SPEAKER_00 25:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

I'm like, right, give me the structure, and then I change things. And then it's It's easy.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

Maybe you're onto something. Maybe you're a time saver.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Yeah. You got it. Yeah. So um no, but if it's like certain things, I will just email rather than well. I've got a story and a half for you.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Oh no. Are you ready? Sit comfortable, everybody. Suck in. We had the welfare agency turn up at our farm and Cornwall Council turn up at our farm unexpected yesterday out of nowhere, just popped in. And we've just had our inspection, like the routine inspection you get for being like red tractor and stuff. So we were like, what the hell is happening here? Now everything on our farm is like welfare standards and above. Yeah. Um, like there is nothing there you'd ever think, like, oh, that's mad. Like maybe there's a poorly sheep or a cow, but the vet's already been out to see it, if you know what I mean. So when these guys turned up, we were like, and what the heck is happening? She may have accidentally, someone may have accidentally said um it was by a walker, a female walker that came through two weeks ago. That narrows it down a lot, a lot. Um, they'd come through our bottom yard, they hadn't taken any, but it doesn't go through that bit. Right. So technically at that point they're trespassing anyway. Um, but we haven't nothing to hide, so it doesn't matter to us if they go through that.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:06

So they didn't receive any photos or videos, which apparently, usually with these welfare complaints, they do.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Yeah because otherwise it could be anyone.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Yeah, so they thought this is really strange. So this lady had been through two weeks before and decided she'd complain to them and say that are you ready for this? Our bullocks were up to their bellies in poo. Our barrier wouldn't even allow for that. Like, we wouldn't even be able to open a door or anything if that happened.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

They're probably just exaggerating a bit.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:36

Or if you piss somebody else off online and then they've reported you. That's what I said to dad.

SPEAKER_02 27:42

I was like, Do you reckon easily be someone online? And he was like, no, because they counted how many bullocks were down there. I was like, Yeah, but you could do that on a bottle. Do that on a video. And they also said in the bottom sheds, you don't know which ones our bottom sheds are from my videos.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Don't think it's somebody else you've pissed off.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Well, no, this is what she said. It could be a malicious thing. Yeah. We were like, but you got any friends we know of, like, have been through here and there's always someone in the yard. I reckon it might be like a Has Matthew got a crazy ex? Matthew's got lots of crazy exes.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

I do apologise if you're one of Matthew's exes, like, we're not actually like there's only one crazy ex that he's got. Do I need to beat that out?

SPEAKER_02 28:25

No, I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Okay. Um, no, I just wonder, like, that's got I'm thinking it's more malicious than Yeah, this is exactly what she said.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Because after she had looked round, like dad was like, put my hands up, there's nothing here like that is suspicious or anything. Like, I can tour you around the whole farm and show you absolutely every inch. Like, we're not hiding, and I think we can even go over to the other yard and take it.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

You've got footage of everything anyway from like social media.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Exactly, yeah. So you would have thought if we had a problem, someone would have reported it by now. And she said exactly that. She was like, We've you guys have never had a report before. So we're very suspicious that this is malicious. So these cattle hadn't been.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

Surely it comes from either a phone number or an email, though.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Yeah, so they would know who it is, but they wouldn't be allowed to tell us. Yeah, no, I'd obviously then we could be like No, I know, but if you got another one, you could then take it further. Yeah, potentially. I don't know how it stands. I think it has to be anonymous on their end. Right. Um, yeah, so these cattle they never get any further than like normal amounts of pony shed. Like a week at maximum they're left with no cleaning out.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Also normal. I know how it works with cattle because you can bed up on top and like create a layer, but never ever would it be that their foot goes through to their belly. It creates such because they're standing on it, they're creating a layer.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Although you say that I have been to farms before where it is quite literally up to their bellies and they are quite literally standing in it up to their bellies. Really? No word of a lie. I have been to farms before that are like that.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

Because ours, like, like I said, we bed up on top. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

And then it creates a layer and it gets- Some people don't bed enough to create a hard layer.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

True.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

And then it's all just like I don't know. Mush. Mush. Yeah, mush is a good word for it. Yeah. Yes, this the inspector and the call council person um both said and agreed with each other that our animals were a credit to us. Yeah, I know. I said, thank you, thank you, thank you. Um if I had a party proper, I'd pet. Um, and poor old father, he was so stressed. He was like, I'm really upset to think that someone would do that. Like, we haven't got a problem here, we've never had a problem here. And like I said before, if we've ever had a problem with an animal, the vet's been out or it's been treated anyway. Yeah. And we've got a record for that. Um, so he was really, really upset to think that someone could do that. And I said to him, Dad, if we're taking anything from this, I think it should be the fact that a literal health inspector for the animals, like a welfare inspector, and a Cornwall council member have both said your animals are a credit. Like, surely this is like a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

All you've done is waste their time. It's not wasted your time, really. You've shown someone round. Um, that's not taken.

SPEAKER_02 31:09

Actually, it did, it ruined the whole day. Oh, that's your thing. No, they were there for a few hours. We were a mentor, it was gonna be a really, really busy day where we had all four of us on the farm like boshing jobs out like really quickly. Oh, because usually we've got one of us ladies off doing something since like three, and it restricts a little bit more.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:28

Um, so we were gonna move four lots of sheep around, we were gonna go fencing, we were gonna treat some of the bullocks, we were then gonna worm some of my sheep. Like it was gonna be like a big day of doing things. Yeah. Um, and yeah, it never half of that didn't happen then because we were behind on everything. Um, yeah, so we can't think of anyone we have pissed off.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

Just sorry, completely gone off track. Um, do you test your sheep for worms? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

I have my own microscape.

SPEAKER_01 32:02

Oh, she's fancy.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

I spent £300 on it.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Huh?

SPEAKER_02 32:08

£300. A trimming stand. £600, everyone.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

I know nobody else would have been able to hear that. I heard it and I was like, speak up £600. Um, nice. Thanks.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

But think about the amount of money you can save by not giving them worm off I mean we could get two free worm accounts on our health scheme that we're on with the vets.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

Oh, don't worry, I'm sending Pooh back down with you one time.

SPEAKER_02 32:40

Yeah, like fuck you.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

Five pounds, five pounds a time. Fine. Deal. Would be fine. Fine by me. Woohoo!

SPEAKER_02 32:53

I know what to do now. It's a case of though, I can't do it unless the toddler is restrained somewhere. Unless the toddler is fully immersed in what he's doing, because it's putting it really honestly. 600 pound microscope in a toddler. No, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

True.

unknown 33:08

True.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I will ring Matthew when you're leaving, saying, take the child out.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

Maria's got a job to do. I'll arrive home two hours later. He'll be like, Where have you been? I took the child out. Yeah. Literally.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Just it just means you're about to walk through the door and he's gone out.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

You'll be like, uh, I've had them all day. No, thank you. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

But it is a handy thing to have, and I'm sure you had the training when you were vet nurse.

SPEAKER_02 33:35

Yeah, yeah. So I really enjoyed the lab side of things. Um, unfortunately, I can't run my own bloods and take my own bloods now because you just it's not a done thing, is it?

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Um so I'm doing a nice thing by giving you my sheep poop. I'll give you my poo. Go away. Oh, that's not very nice.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Gorilla um gift, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Oh, when they poo each other. Nice.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

Nice. So you're gonna send me home two hours in my car with your sheep poo next to me.

SPEAKER_01 34:05

I'll put it in a little like Chinese carton. It has to be kept cool though. I'll put it in an ice pack. Perfect. I don't want it frozen though. No, because it won't be, but it'll be in a chilled pack. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

I don't know what part of this is perfect. You're giving me extra bloody work.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

She loves me. I've got an edit this podcast, which the the more brand in the chats are, the worse the editing is. Is it? Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I look at it and like. Do you want to keep it raw? Do you think we could keep that raw? What Frangorilla put each other? Uh that I leave in, but like there's a few gaps and stuff that you have to pick out and cut things and move it, and to be fair, I should record like when I'm do how long it would take me to go through an episode. But you think you've got to listen to that whole episode. And then and then you've got edit it as well. Do you not like edit as you're going? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But still you think you have to listen to the whole thing. Yeah. R go back, edit it, re-listen to it, clip it a bit more, then re-watch it.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

This is why you're the editorial team, and I am the I know, and that's probably why I'm the brains.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

What can I say? I do look forward to recording. I do look forward to recording, but I think I do know once we've recorded, I've now left myself with quite a few hours' work.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

So I do think, oh god.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

But then it does kind of make it even because like the time it takes to find sponsors and talk to them and then get the invoices out and then chase up if they haven't paid. Talk to them. Um, which brings me on to this week's sponsor.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Abby, take it away. Maria messaged me saying, Can you sort the sponsors? Because I'm really busy. Yeah, fine, Maria. I can do that. Welcome to our sponsor today, the Farm Hair Files. So basically, Abby didn't do it. Abby left it to the last minute. Abby then put it on stories thinking someone would sponsor. No, no, nobody clicked on it because sorry, you resorted to the stories. Because I don't know who you've spoken to. So, like, Maria just sponsors. You could have asked me. I did. I put it in a voice note saying I don't know who's spoken. Or last night.

SPEAKER_02 36:19

Yesterday I did it. Yesterday. You're not gonna that was last night, you little monkey. It wasn't that I talked to my children, you little monkey. No, it wasn't. Anyway, it was yesterday. I don't know who she thought she was gonna find yesterday. Like to clarify. Anyway, so today's sponsor Yesterday at 1153 in the morning. It was the morning. 1153. Anyway, in other words, she messaged me midday expecting on my busy day. This was busy day.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

I don't know when your busy day is.

SPEAKER_02 36:48

I was doing it in the inspection. I'm sorry. Um, so the sponsor of today's episode is the farmer files.

SPEAKER_01 36:59

Yay, congratulations. Thank you, the farmhoophiles, for sponsoring this episode. Who's the sponsor of next week's episode? The farmer files. If you would like. Oh no, we might actually switch it up. Why is tall fallet fat no sheep? We have no stock to sell. What else are there?

SPEAKER_02 37:24

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SPEAKER_01 37:43

I'm popping off on Facebook. 29,000 followers. Um by tour. Yeah, on Facebook. Nearly at the 10k on Instagram. Oh, proud of you. Thanks. So yeah. Shout out to myself. I think my eye I'm gonna be honest. Sorry, I've just asked Maria what the time is on the screen because I genuinely think my eyesight's got worse. I can't. You are getting to that age though, aren't you? Oh fuck off!

SPEAKER_02 38:09

What are you like two years younger? Two years is a big difference. If I told you you had two weeks or two years to live, which one would you prefer? Don't answer that. Right, anyway, the sponsor for today. We haven't even spoke about it. Um, we have some beautiful hoodies back in stock that Oh, I actually have my Farm Perfiles hoodie there. I don't see you committing to it right now, do I?

SPEAKER_01 38:33

I'm wearing it for the next episode.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

Um if you would like, is that because we're sponsoring the next episode as well? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

So if you would like to support us and keep the podcast running, um, because Abby can't find any sponsors to keep the whole thing running. Also, I would like to clarify if you do ever want to sponsor an episode, please just just just shout, just message Maria, not me, because Abby will just pretend you're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_02 39:01

In all fairness, I That's not even a word.

SPEAKER_01 39:05

In all fairness, what is without the nus on the end? In all fairness. Clarified. Yeah. Um I've been flat out. Fuck, I need to ring the plumber. I made a pinky promise to Scott that I was gonna ring the plumber today. I'll do that in a minute. After this one. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:26

My shit are not flashing.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

No, thanks Maria. I've got a leak from my shower. Can we try and make it into soup? Leak and potato soup?

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Bad joke.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

No, it's it's leaking through to my lounge ceiling.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Oh nice. Yeah. Woohoo.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

Have you disconnected your water just to No, you haven't. What do you mean disconnected my water? Well, is it like a constant leak? No, it's whenever we're in the shower. Oh, whenever you're in the shower.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

It leaks. So we're upstairs in the shower, have a shower.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

And then you're downstairs in the sitting room having a shower.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:04

Two in one. Save some money there. Yeah. So that's leaking out of my looks. What do you mean I mean nowadays? You might want to consider keeping it. Nice wooden beam in my barn.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Scrummy. Nice. Yummy scrummy. So you are telling me you've got an indoor swimming pool. That's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

I always wanted one, so I thought, why not? Self-made. Do you know what? Oh, I've just suddenly realised I should have put the dog bowl there. I wouldn't have to fill it up with water. That's disgusting. I know we're not using that. I'd like to clarify everyone, we're not actually using that shower anymore. Because Abby can't hasn't been bothered to.

SPEAKER_02 40:41

Sobby doesn't want to share her bath water with Scott. No.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

Shower water. Abby hasn't rang the plumber. So should we sign off for this episode and then I'll ring the plumber?

SPEAKER_02 40:51

Yeah, maybe we should.

unknown 40:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

You can shower again, then you do stink.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

I had a shower this morning, you bitch. But thanks. You're welcome. Right.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

On that note, ciao for now. To our website by some match. We'll see you later. Who knows? Might have a sponsor next week. Oh wait, sorry, no, we won't.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

It was your job in the first fucking place, so don't stop at this. Anyway, bye for now. Bye. Bitch.