Sunday, 23 February 2025
A new project
Thursday, 9 January 2025
A new year
Happy New Year!
Feeding sheep on cold winter's mornings
Frosty ground and a dusting of snow on the hill behind EnsayFriday, 20 December 2024
Friday, 29 November 2024
November notes
Back home and I flew the drone a few times, over the Treshnish shoreline and also at Calgary.
We had some cold weather too!
In mid November the first tups went out. The Suffolk tup went out with the field of Cheviot ewes, and our new Herdwick tup went out with the Herdwick ewes.
The female lambs (hoggs) born in the spring of 2024 will grow into next year's young breeding ewes. They are in the shed now. Inside they 'learn' to feed - to eat sheep nuts and hay.
Nuts and hay are not their normal diet and it is important that they know how to eat it, so that in future if they ever need to be brought in to the shed due to illness they will know what the nuts and hay are. That way we can look after them better.