Author: Stuart Fletcher

  • To keep up-to-date…

    Our blog is on Facebook, so for the latest ramblings you need to pop over to our Facebook page

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  • Knock knock!

    Word is out that my landlord has a couple of spare bedrooms.  What happened to the electric fence I spent 2 hours putting up?  

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  • Wish you were here…

    …and I wasn’t.  Bess writes: “They’ve brought me camping. As you can see, it’s crap. Not a sheep in sight, which means our lot are probably on the loose back home whilst I’m told to sit on a windy beach all day watching people stupidly getting themselves wet.   ” If I survive the boredom I’ll…

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  • Child labour 

     Arthur has had a promotion now Fred is back at school!       

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  • All over baa the shouting

    Having a seven-nearly eight year old son, it comes with the territory that we spend half our time waiting around for him. Now he has his own sheep it means we can spend the other half of our time waiting for that too – one of only 3 of over 300 yet to give birth.…

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  • Lamb box home delivery starts early this year

    Clearly their mother didn’t get the memo regarding the care of newborns in the event of a hailstorm…   Once warmed by the fire and given a glucose injection they’ve soon perked up.  Wasn’t planning on having any bottle lambs this year!

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  • A damp affair…

    The dream is a restored antique shepherds hut with gingham wallpaper and a logburner, but here is the reality of life in ‘the flock’, for those aspiring to live the dream! A leaking beaten up 1990’s abbey Surrey, overpriced at £600! I knew there was a job I’d forgotten earlier, the skylight leaks in the…

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  • Un-eventful 

    We all held our breath but she pulled up at the last minute. No clear rounds today…  

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  • A typical family outing! 

    This seems a long time ago now, but was only back in October.  We were weighing the shearling ewes before the rams went out, the idea being to calculate weight of lambs reared/mothers weight pre-tupping (mating). A kind of efficiency ratio if you like. The weights were submitted to a large database for analysis so…

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  • Umbrella anyone?

     If it carries on like this I’ll need to be issuing the ewes some swimming costumes.  But it is a good chance to show some strip grazing in action. I’ve just moved the electric fence here hence the bright green grass. I move it every day or two to give the ewes fresh grass whilst…

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  • To keep up-to-date…

    Our blog is on Facebook, so for the latest ramblings you need to pop over to our Facebook page

  • Knock knock!

    Word is out that my landlord has a couple of spare bedrooms.  What happened to the electric fence I spent 2 hours putting up?  

  • Wish you were here…

    …and I wasn’t.  Bess writes: “They’ve brought me camping. As you can see, it’s crap. Not a sheep in sight, which means our lot are probably on the loose back home whilst I’m told to sit on a windy beach all day watching people stupidly getting themselves wet.   ” If I survive the boredom I’ll…

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