This has been shearing week here at Rosedean Ryelands. Our shearer, Alistair, came on Thursday. We bought the sheep home on Thursday morning and penned them up – it’s safer if their rumens are empty at shearing as a full rumen can put pressure on the heart and lungs as the shearing takes place. We […]
We’ve been fortunate to be offered the use of 19 acres of grass locally, so today we moved the 15 ewes up there – as well as doing some running fencing repairs. The sheep are astounded at the amount of grass. We’re planning to move the tup and wether there next weekend to let the […]
The fourteen ewe hoggs and Niamh got their annual booster vaccination against tetanus and other clostridial diseases this week. As well as protecting the ewes, the vaccine also allows lambs to acquire passive immunity through the colostrum. We had a late night text from the miller at Barry Mill to say Teddy was hopping lame […]
The ewes got their January dose of flukicide this week. Normally we do this after they have been scanned at the end of January – but no lambing means no scanning, so we did it on Saturday. We also trimmed back the wool form their eyes; the one drawback with Coloured Ryelands is that the […]
As Urquhart’s quarantine period comes to and end, he’s had a dose of Zolvix wormer and a dose of closantel flukicide – his breeder weighed him at 108kg, when he was sold to us. We attended the special Christmas Farmers’ Market in Forfar on the 22nd; sold a couple of sheepskins and some yarn – […]
Urquhart has settled in very well – he’s pretty canny. Feeling a bit sorry for the two boys stuck in a fairly small pen, I gave them a swede each. I suppose they’ll work out what to do with them eventually. We had a good day at Forfar Farmers’ Market, selling two sheepskins and a […]
Our new tup, Cockairney Urquhart, has arrived. He was born in 2014 and has worked this year and last, but only had four ewes this year and three the year before. He’s now in isolation, with Teddy for company, for three weeks. He’ll be wormed, fluked and his feet cleaned and disinfected. He comes form […]
We received our 2016 sheepskins back from Skyeskyns this week; we’re pretty pleased with them and will be taking some of them to Forfar Farmers Market next month It was the Scottish Ryeland Group lunch this week, so it was good to catch up with other breeders. And I managed to buy a tup – […]
We’ve signed up for a special Christmas Farmers’ Market in Forfar on 22nd December, as well as the regular one on Saturday 10th December. Our sheepskins are ready for dispatch and should be with us this week. They will be available to buy at the 2 markets above and on our online shop.
Had a lovely morning at Forfar Farmers’ market. John and Linda came along, so that I could get a cuppa and then the necessary break. Lots of nice folk, sold a good bit of yarn and caught up with a few folk that I know from Festival and various other things. Three really nice things […]