“The rams came out mid November, the last fat lambs went before Christmas, so time to sit down and update the last few months on the farm. We have been one of the lucky ones with enough rain to give us ample grass. Probably one of the best years for the sheep that I can
We will make no comment on the weather except to say we were very lucky to get more than enough very good haylage at the end of June and hopefully enough hay a couple of weeks ago and a final field this week. Touch wood we don’t seem to have any feet problems, and our
With the help of two very good vet students from Edinburgh University during the 2nd and 3rd week of lambing, we lambed over 350 with a very tight 95% lambed in the first cycle. (We don’t use a teaser). We did however suffer from a number of multiples being in too good condition. Next year