Tag Archives: lambing

At Last: Late Spring Flowers

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Lambing has finished and yesterday we gave the last batch their protective inoculations before releasing them from the barn and out to pasture. They still have open access to the shelter of the barn, should they need it, but they … Continue reading →

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A Festive Spring (With Gynaecological Rhubarb)

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

This cold weather has held everything back, except one or two of our ewes who have had prolapses. This normally happens in the last weeks before lambing and is a result of a shortage of space in the body cavity, … Continue reading →

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Not Losing the Plot

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

I’m sometimes asked how I manage to combine sheep farming with writing. A follow-up question is often about the difficulty of getting back into the swing of writing, after a period away from it. I suspect both would be answered … Continue reading →

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In the deep mid-spring

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

These last few days have been as cold and unpleasant as any I’ve experienced. Three days ago we had 19mm of rain, so the garden flooded. The following night it froze hard, so heaven knows what damage was done to … Continue reading →

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Lambing: a good start, fingers crossed

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Like every sheep and cattle farmer in Britain, we’re keeping our fingers crossed in case we’re hit by the dreaded Schmallenberg Disease which could easily cause us to lose 80 of our expected 200 lambs. But worse even than that, … Continue reading →

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Lambing 2013 Kicks off with healthy twins!

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

Lambing officially (i.e. 21 weeks after we put the tups to the ewes in early October) starts tomorrow, but when I went out for the dawn patrol this morning, I came across these two lovely lambs wandering around near the … Continue reading →

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The Autumn Clear-Out

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

Houses have their spring cleans, gardens their autumn clear-out. Personally, I don’t go over-board  on my autumn clear-out too early, because if you dead-head everything in the borders, the poor garden birds are denied their seed larder for the winter. … Continue reading →

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They’re off! The Start of the new Lamb Racing Season

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Last week we released the first forty or so ewes with their lambs. These were the ones who lambed in the first week of March and had been in the barn for over a week. Like me when stuck in … Continue reading →

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If I were a newt , I’d believe in God

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Last week the weather was ‘lovely’, or that was what we were told by the people on telly – and they should know. I think it was Thursday, but around 6.00 AM I’d done the second morning patrol through the … Continue reading →

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Lambing starts four days early

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

This morning I got up as usual around 5.30 and started work on the blog, writing something to appear before next Sunday, when Time Team is showing one of my sites.  At 6.30, as soon as there was enough light, … Continue reading →

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