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OldMcDonald
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jim wilson, My experience (similar losses of sheep for many of us in the UK in the 1978-79 winter) is just as pacerron says - wet stock then sudden deep snow. It is impossible to get out and around the property and animals perish. The situation worsens if more snow follows. It is one of those feelings of sickness and despair that I never want to repeat. I did not have generations of breeding stock, being relatively young, but most of my neighbours and those further afield did. My losses were sufficient that I sold up and moved to Australia. I then discovered what the word "drought" really means. But, that is farming and we have to live with it or get out of it altogether. Most pick up the pieces and start again, and I really feel for those folk and others who suffer such losses.
