Zwartbles Ireland Blankets @London Design Festival 2013

Zwartbles Ireland Blankets @London Design Festival 2013

We’ve been selling our Zwartbles wool Blankets for 8 weeks and now they’re going to The London Design Festival September 14 – 22 2013 to help represent some of Ireland’s own designs!! An idea hatched in a kitchen warmed by an Aga during long...
Aggee Gets Her Custom Made Ear Tags

Aggee Gets Her Custom Made Ear Tags

For those of you who do not know who Aggee is she has a blog post all her own. It is about how she nearly died as a lamb and how the Aga and my shepherding twitter friends kept me going through the night. I always work the hardest for the first lambs born as I hope...
I Bite The Bullet Today Vaccinating For the SBV Virus

I Bite The Bullet Today Vaccinating For the SBV Virus

Today I bite the bullet and injected my flock of ewes with the SBV vaccine which is “Vaccinating for Schmallenberg Virus”. The  Schmallenberg Virus is a very resent new virus which is spread by midge bites with an end result of very deformed lambs. This...
Sketching Zwartbles Freestyle

Sketching Zwartbles Freestyle

Today I was dosing lambs, sorting skinny ewes from those in good condition, giving cobalt boluses and vitamin doses to ewes and at the same time being sketched by a visiting artist; all in a shepherd’s day’s work I say. Rosamond Casey is visiting us from...
Fat Ewes From Thin & Fertilizing Fields

Fat Ewes From Thin & Fertilizing Fields

Feeding the boys this morning got a giggle out of my niece as one of the boy’s was a bit sloppy about his food. We arrived into their field and started across towards the feed trough. When we were stopped in our tracks by a big boy wanting to bucket dive before...

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