With the benefits of the fall in the £/€ rate, good grass and reportedly continuing poor arable margins, demand for fat, store and breeding sheep appears to have resulted for us anyway in early strong interest for our shearling ewes. The last went this week, probably 4-6 weeks earlier than last year. We still have some very nice rams. These are purely grass fed and are looking very well. Indeed the best way to get them out of a field is to flap an empty sack at them! (see stock available page)

All lambs were weaned as usual at 12 weeks, sexed at the same time and given their second Heptovac P. (We don’t castrate).

With ample haylage in the yard we are reasonably prepared for a long winter. Lets hope we don’t need it all.

Finding new rams is never easy. We are obviously always looking for grass fed animals and good EBVs, but importantly for us also those that are part of the Lleyn Performance Recorded Group AND have been saliva FEC tested. Signet advise that they will have more robust FEC EBV’s published this autumn. Once you pull out those that are too closely related – quite a few, the list shrinks considerably. This year I was very pleased therefore to get two very nice shearlings, one from Humphrey Mills in Essex and the other from George Cullimore near Bath. This will enable me to release at least one of my older rams.