Sheep Hungry & Looking for a Bit of Rain

Sheep Hungry & Looking for a Bit of Rain

We are very tight for grass at the moment. This is for two reasons one it has been a dry summer the other is we live in an area with a bit of a microclimate due to what we term around here as “The mountain splitting the clouds”. There is a wonderful...
How to Pull a Lamb Out of Sheep Wire

How to Pull a Lamb Out of Sheep Wire

When the lambs get to a certain size they can still put their heads through the sheep fencing but they can’t pull themselves back out. This is when you loose ear tags, which is why I just have small butcher tags in their ears until I sell them or they grow too...
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...
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...

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