Separating the sheep from the geese
Jan 15, 2020
3 minutes
Jamie Blackett
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THE winter routine on the farm includes a game of ‘sheep-orgeese’. This involves trying to ensure the lambs eat the grass, thus earning me the princely sum of 70p per hogget per week, rather than the visiting geese, which make me diddly-squat. It says something for the state of agriculture that this is currently our most profitable enterprise.
I expect the usual suspects will send me hate mail for chasing the geese off ‘land they(and not only the black ones). Sheep have been around these parts since God was a boy, but not since God was a , so they are proscribed by certain environmentalists who consider that sheep have no place in the British countryside.
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