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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I laughed when I saw a headline today 'exhausted dad complains about coping with newborn'!!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Lizzie27 said:
    I laughed when I saw a headline today 'exhausted dad complains about coping with newborn'!!
    don't blame him, mothers have been complaining about  the same for donkeys  ;)
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2022
    @Uff it’s probably ground up limestone and other minerals. It improves the nutritional value of the grass and can help prevent lactating ewes from developing Staggers … https://www.nwfagriculture.co.uk/reduce-grass-staggers/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Uff it’s probably ground up limestone. It improves the nutritional value of the grass and can help prevent lactating ewes from developing Staggers … 
    and none of wants the Staggers eh?
    Devon.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    @Uff it’s probably ground up limestone and other minerals. It improves the nutritional value of the grass and can help prevent lactating ewes from developing Staggers … https://www.nwfagriculture.co.uk/reduce-grass-staggers/
    Thanks Dove, I wondered if it might be that but I still don't fancy the idea of breathing the dust in. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    At least you won’t get the Staggers if you breathe it in?
    Some years ago, OH and I were helping a friend inoculating their small flock of sheep, and giving them their doses of wormer. OH was in charge of holding the ‘patients’ while I gave them a squirt of wormer down the throat, and a jab below the back of the neck. Got into a very efficient routine until he lost his grip on one, and I gave him the shot instead. Down to the local A and E with the drug information sheet.
    When the staff had finished laughing, and calling their colleagues in to hear the story, they gave him a precautionary anti tetanus shot, and some antibiotics, and reassured him he was now safe from liver fluke and foot rot.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Lizzie27 said:
    I laughed when I saw a headline today 'exhausted dad complains about coping with newborn'!!

    If it's the article I saw the bloke is a doctor supposedly working 100 hours per week.  He will barely have time to eat and sleep, so will have limited time to help with the baby.  I appreciate that the mother will be struggling but how much can he realistically do?  Would you want a sleep deprived doctor treating you?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Aren't most of them sleep deprived @KT53?  
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They are much better treated than in my day, thank goodness.
    I do however take issues with them working under half the hours I did, and completing their specialist training in much less time. How can they be any good?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    They are much better treated than in my day, thank goodness.
    I do however take issues with them working under half the hours I did, and completing their specialist training in much less time. How can they be any good?
    could it possibly be down to Tory cost cutting on the training?
    It's not like they give a toss about NHS
    Devon.
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