Appleby the Ram Lamb Gets His Ear Tags

Appleby the Ram Lamb Gets His Ear Tags

Appleby as a lamb only a few days old. The ram lamb Appleby was booked with a deposit by someone when he was only 6 weeks old. So now at 5 months old he is ready to go to his new home. He has been weaned, wormed and had all his vaccines even been shorn so he...
The Welchman Welcomes Some Visiting Ladies

The Welchman Welcomes Some Visiting Ladies

Today we were expecting the arrival of three sponged ewes hoping to visit for 4 weeks staying with my ram The Welchman. We hope that this will allow the ewes at least 2 breeding cycles after which they will be in lamb to him. So I had to go get himself out of the...
Field Rotation and Foot-Bathing

Field Rotation and Foot-Bathing

Today was a busy day of rotating fields and foot-bathing the lambs, rams and hoggets. I knew it was going to be a hot sunny day so started early as the yard is a bit of a sun trap and can get quite hot. So first things first was to fill the foot-bath with water and...
Dosing The Zwartbles Rams

Dosing The Zwartbles Rams

Dosing the rams can be a short and easy job if the boys behave, which luckily they did today. I was giving the boys their fluke worm dose, a cobalt bolus, a foot bath and also checking out that they had no bumps, cuts or any other damage or health issues. Once dosing...
The Aga Saga A Lamb Saved & Twitter Support

The Aga Saga A Lamb Saved & Twitter Support

  Sunday morning on March 4th when feeding I notice my Suffolk Texel cross had no interested in food but licking her lips giving all the signs she was due to lamb. I separated her from the flock bringing her in. She would be the first of my small flock to lamb so...

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