Wallace is still lame. He’s now on a 14 day course of antibiotics. Keeping everything crossed for him. We brought the four gimmers and the wether, Teddy, home from our some of our seasonal grazing yesterday. That’s all our sheep home now, probably until we wean the lambs at the beginning of August. We had […]
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Wallace’s tail finally fell off this week. Winter’s fell off weeks ago and I was starting to worry that Wallace was always going to have a stringy end to his tail. But during a feed, the violent wagging of his tail – he’s a very enthusiastic if not very efficient feeder – dislodged the end […]
It’s an unavoidable fact of keeping most breeds of sheep that you have to have them shorn every year (or shear them yourself, although that’s not something we’ll ever be doing!). The output of shearing is, of course, fleece. And Ryelands are *very* fleecy. In previous years we’ve sometimes struggled to ‘dispose’ of the fleeces. […]