Tuesday 28 April 2015
must be spring, got my veg seeds in!!!!
Tomatoes, cucumber, courgette, cabbage and onions seeds in. Quick growing cabbage already up. Pointed and ball headed type 60 days from seed to plate!!!!
A new bit of kit!!!
Bought a shepherdess lamb feeder |
they seem to be doing fine on it!!!!! |
Saturday 25 April 2015
And they are in the barn!!!!!
That's the little black woolly devils it to the barn. now to mop and disinfect the kitchen. I have my house back!!!!!!
The kitchen flock is growing and growing
The number of cade lambs in the kitchen is growing daily. Hopefully they will be moving into the barn today. Finger crossed!!!!!!!
Tuesday 21 April 2015
Sunday and Mondays lambs
Ewe lamb( not my best pic.) |
Very small twin ram lambs |
Ram lamb |
We also had a very large ewe lamb but the mother had no milk so we removed her. She was later joined in the kitchen flock (now numbering 5) by one of the small ram twins as the mother has very little milk. I found out today that a lot of people on the island are having trouble this year with ewes having little milk. Its being put down largely to the late cold spell we had and the large amount of rain over the winter spoiling the winter grass.
Sunday 19 April 2015
Friday 17 April 2015
Second gather of the year!!!!
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Darker side of Lambing
Dougary settling in and finding his feet
Monday 13 April 2015
Then the fun started!!!!
Very small twin ram lambs |
the twins moved into kitchen |
Saturday 11 April 2015
Todays lambs
Ewe lamb fostered onto this afternoons ewe with a ram lamb |
Tonight's ram lamb |
Friday 10 April 2015
Todays new arrivals
Thursday 9 April 2015
first Hebbie lamb this year
Filling the barn!!!!
Barn build day fourteen
Bringing in the ewes
Friday 3 April 2015
First Lamb of 2015
As per usual you get a ewe that doesn't have a calendar. The first lamb of the year born out on Tolsta Head, 2 weeks before they are due to start. Its a wee ram lamb Charolaise x Hebridean/Blackface. The wee lad managed to walk all the way into croft 2a alongside his mum during the gathering of the sheep from Tolsta Head yesterday.
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