I Will Be Posting Shearing Day Photographs Soon

I Will Be Posting Shearing Day Photographs Soon

    Having been quite busy farming, filming & photographing I have been delayed but will be posting lots more shearing day photographs quite soon. There will also be photographs following the fresh shorn Zwartbles wool down to Cushendale Woollen Mills...
Fencing & Flooring ‘Farm Diary’

Fencing & Flooring ‘Farm Diary’

About a month ago I wrote about about netting lambs in electric sheep netting which I have been using for years dividing fields up for better grazing rotation. Well I have finally had it fenced with proper sheep wire a strand of barbed wire & a strand of electric...
Forthcoming ZSA Irish Branch sales/events.

Forthcoming ZSA Irish Branch sales/events.

  Dear member, At a recent meeting it was decided that this year, as in previous years, there will be two Zwartbles pedigree sales. The first pedigree Zwartbles sale will be an export sale and is to be held on Thursday 2 August in Ballymena Livestock Mart. This...
A Visit to Cushendale Woollen Mills

A Visit to Cushendale Woollen Mills

  A visit to the Cushendale Woollen Mills is a wonderful experience you feel like you’ve gone back in time.     The only things missing would be the clip clop of horses going up the hill outside;     and the smell of turf or wood smoke...
Zwartbles Wool

Zwartbles Wool

  So now it is the Merry Month of May and many have started shearing.   So I am looking for all Irish Pure Bred Zwartbles Breeders to save their Wool for me.   When shearing please shear away belly wool and back end dirty wool.   If you have a...

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