Month: January 2016

  • 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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