Clarksons farm series 3

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Anybody watching? The pigs oh I love the bugs but had no idea how hard they would be compared to other farm animals

One of my DC is obsessed with pigs, have to say I cried at that episode! Definitely won’t be letting them watch it, they’d be traumatised. Do enjoy the show though, especially Lisa being a bigger presence.

I hate that I like JC so much.

Lisa is amazing.

I used to go out of my way to avoid watching JC - until he became a farmer. He is clearly able to laugh at himself. Lisa gets my wholehearted admiration.

Have loved seeing Caleb grow in confidence, and was touched at how Gerald’s diagnosis affected Jeremy and the rest of the team.

I wonder if inducing that first sow was the right call. Yes she was ill, but they thought she was overdue and iirc were expecting piglets to be stillborn, yet piglets emerged looking premature. Does anyone else have a view on that?

I loved how Lisa sent ailing piglets for five-star residential vet treatment! So sad so many died…

Yep, me too.

What a different side to him.

Yea I've always thought JC was a right twat but I like the way he is happy to look like a complete idiot most of the time. His 'team' are great and it does show how financially difficult it is. I really enjoyed it.

but they thought she was overdue and iirc were expecting piglets to be stillborn, yet piglets emerged looking premature. Does anyone else have a view on that?

I wondered the same.

I watched the episode where he shot a deer last night. It's the first time I've felt distaste watching it. I'm from a farming background. But still don't like glorifying or drawing attention to killing aminals. They didn't with slautering the cows fir example. Just a matter if fact 'this happens' and moved on. With the deer shooting we saw the gun prep, practicing, trying and cut away from the death shot. It felt glorifying it and I didn't like that.

All of the rest of the show I'm loving tho.

Lisa amazes me as she can wear light coloured clothes to visit the pig loos and never ends up covered in mud or worse.
Only caught up with series two last week and am hooked. Not sure why it's taken me so long to watch the last series when we watched 1 when it was first aired.

@Pterodacty1 I had a different view of the deer - I’m sure it’s all in the editing but I thought he seemed very reluctant to shoot it. And even renowned environmentalist George Mobiot agrees they are a pest in need of population control (though he doesn’t advocate for hunting them as it’s inefficient - reintroducing lynx and wolves are his preference!). I hadn’t realised deer were such a menace (we live near a AONB forest known for its deer) so found that all quite educational.

JC will hire the farm machinery I’d imagine. We hire out all the time, even to the most established farmer. It would cost far too much and some equipment you only need for a week or so once a year. He will likely have his own tractor or two - perhaps the lambo but I fully suspect the rest is hired such as the JCB, weed sprayers etc.

It was a difficult call. The mum pug seemed to be slowly dying. I don't think there could have been a good outcome either way.

I thought he was reluctant to shot the deer - he repeatedly didn't take the shot even though the posh guy was telling him to.

I'm astonished the pig loo makers hadn't considered the potential for piglet squishing. This can't have been the only time it's happened.

I’ve finished and not giving away the end so not to spoil but Lisa’s surprise made me cry. In a good way.

The end also made me cry with them sitting round the table.

Ah, found my people! I binge watched both sets of 4 episodes on the days they were released, looked for a thread on the series here and failed to find this one so I haven't had anyone to talk about it with.

I loved this series, probably more than the first and certainly more than the second which bored me a bit, with all that stuff fighting the council. This series was back to farming, with all its pitfalls and I found the end very heartwarming. Yes of course a lot of it is staged, but it is still informative and entertaining. I don't know if more series have been commissioned but it could run for years.

I think you have to respect Clarkson for being prepared to put so much uncomfortable, backbreaking work and investment into this. At his age he could simply live comfortably off what he makes from TV.

I find myself quite intrigued about Kaleb's education. He's clearly bright and very knowledgeable about everything to do with farming, but his lack of knowledge of virtually anything else is quite startling. Did he just not turn up at school, or switch off? And how does he avoid knowing quite basic stuff like that we don't have a President and the name of the PM?

Even puppy whelping boxes have a rail round the outside so puppies can’t end up squashed and suffocated against the side. No idea why the pigloos don’t.

I find myself quite intrigued about Kaleb's education. He's clearly bright and very knowledgeable about everything to do with farming, but his lack of knowledge of virtually anything else is quite startling.

Writ large, because they can't "do exams" how much talent like that do you think the UK is pissing away every year ? It's heartbreaking.

Kaleb is incredibly bright , but his awareness of other issues around him is scant ( unless his playing up to the cameras ? )
I'd rather have people like him to do his job well though as people need to eat and they know how to work the land and all that complex machinery too. No easy feat and hard work.
Of course we also need our academics, but we also need to Kalebs of the world too!
A mixture of both ( I feel Charlie falls into this category) is also important.
They are all fascinating characters with different strengths.

I was beginning to feel a bit astounded that Clarkson, of all people, had invented the pig ring in his pig houses. I had a quick Google and it looks as though the term 'pig ring' is so established that it's used as a term in whelping boxes. I wonder why they didn't fit them to begin with.

I don't watch much tv at all but last week my eldest ds came to stay for a few days. "Watch this", he said, "you'll like it". My heart sank, but to appease him, I watched episode 1, series 1 with him.

Now, less than a week later, I'm halfway through series 3! I've really enjoyed it, and have seen a completely different side to JC. I think Lisa is a real trooper (and asset), as are Kaleb and Charlie.

One question - can anyone understand Gerald?! Very pleased he's better and back at work.

I have binge watched this,come to the end of series 3, and am really missing it. The discussion about how difficult farming life is is fascinating but I also love the relationships between everyone. JC certainly is a far warmer and kinder person than I imagined. Kaleb really interests me because I work in a village school with several children who struggle academically but you know will smash it when they get to do something practical and Kaleb strikes me as that sort of person. Most of all, I have so much admiration for Lisa. She's a roll your sleeves up and get on with it type of person. He's very lucky to have her.

'As a farmer, would you have taken those piglets away immediately that first night and put them under a lamp (from the sow with no milk)? I don't farm but I couldn't understand why they didn't do that - or take them in a put them next to the aga on day one.'

Yes and why did the vet presume they may all be dead and decomposing inside the mother without even having a listen for heartbeats? Maybe they don't do that with pigs but it all seemed a bit make it up as you go along. Also if you breed pigs you surely have a pig person on hand 24/7 rather than ringing people up and an untrained Lisa shoving her hand inside a distressed pig.

I understand farmers care for their animals and probably get disappointed at deaths but the sobbing one minute then giggling at the lovely pork chops from their own that they'd sent for slaughter jarred a bit. I notice they didn't show the slaughterhouse bit, rather the pigs getting carefully ushered into a straw filled pen which all looked a bit too cosy. Clarkson doesn't usually shy away from the brutal reality of these things.