Moving the sheep

On 13/08 we swapped over the rams and ewes with lambs. The grass in the ram field was growing round them so swapped them over to the ewes field and vice versa. Gemma and I walked the rams down and then the ewes with lambs up the road to the field, they all walked easily and caused no fuss!!!The ewes and lambs were enjoying the new grass and hopefully the lambs will keep up the growth rate they have recently been on.

Cattle blood tests

Had the vet over yesterday to do the blood tests on the cattle, even fitted in a pregnancy test on Tinga (14 weeks) confirmed by the student vet that also had a go. Collected Eric and Colla first then extended the pen and herded in the other cattle. Had 7 to test and 4 to ear tag. Vet said all went very smoothly!!!!

stripping and moving the Cattle crush

 

We spent the day stripping the cattle crush from Croft 2a and rebuilding the cattle crush and pen on Croft 10. Ready for the PCHS blood test tomorrow

Urgent repairs

Gemma and myself spent a few hours doing urgent maintenance, repairing damage to some fences caused by the cattle, which was allowing the lambs to escape!!!!

 

 

First day of shearing this year, we got about 2/3 of the flock done!!!! 24th July

Post shearing sort out

after the shearing, Gemma and myself sorted the sheep and did routine feet trimming before moving the flock to new grazing. 6 rams to one field, 51 ewes and lambs to another and the 14 castrates for the freezer remained on croft 2a.

Eric the bull in fine form ready for the visit of the cows.