Well done, boys

The three tups, Merlin, Charlie and Jarvis have been out with their respective groups of ewes for just over five weeks now, and everything has a coloured bottom of one sort or another, so if there are no disasters, lambing will be a fairly compact five weeks, but it will be quite crowded at times in the sheds! Lets hope for plenty of spring grass and sunshine.

Autumn's new additions

Carlisle Rare Breeds sale at the end
of september saw us come home with 7 new shetlands and a jacob gimmer lamb. Three further jacobs have been purchased locally, and a trip to Newcastleton last week saw the arrival on farm of six blue-grey heifers aged between 6 and 12 months. These are a very hardy breed, a cross between galloway and whitebred shorthorn, and are intended to graze our marsh areas to help with the conservation aims, and then later to breed from.