What’s Happening on The Farm now?
As I’m writing this, 21st of April, Were in the middle of lambing
or as its sometime known the most stressful and tiring time of
the year. All though our flock is a small one compared to some
its still as busy as ever. Another thing with lambing time,
particularly with pedigree flocks like ours is the testing of the
new tups or tup in our case. You’ve spent big on a tup that you
think is going to improve your flock and you cant find out if its
done any good until its first crop of lambs have arrived (
although some people say you cant judge a tup until you’ve sold
ewes buy it) well the tup we bought last October, its lambs have
started to arrive and sweet relief there looking quite good, well
so far anyway.
One thing that’s on our side this year is the weather, and while
some of you lot reading this article can’t get outside because of
these confusing and scary times, the farmers (and the animals)
have been enjoying the weather. One thing my grandfather
says is that one of the most important thing in lambing is the
weather. It makes it or breaks it and this time its made it. Lambs
have been popping out left right and centre with not many
problems occurring apart from a few dopey lambs that refuse
to suck for some daft reason but Lambing has been fairly
seamless up till now! We have about 120 sheep left to lamb so
it’ll soon be time to start marking, dosing tagging and putting
lambs on the fell until clipping time! Which is probably when
you’ll next be reading one of these when we’re clipping, hay
timing and sorting out the draft ewes for the backend sales,
until then give my YouTube a watch if you’ve got a spare
minute!
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