Category: sheep

  • Change to Dog Worrying Law

    Change to Dog Worrying Law

    There is about to be a change to the laws that relate to dogs worrying of livestock. The bill has passed through the House of Commons and now gone through the House of lords, and as such will go forward for Royal assent and will become law. Some of the key aspects is that the

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  • New Arrival Settling In

    New Arrival Settling In

    When we first added sheep to the small holding one of concerns that we had was that there was quite a few foxes in and around the local countryside. This caused us a concern at the risk that we could lose some of the lambs and considering that we were just starting out to build

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  • A bit of rain and the Oak Trees

    A bit of rain and the Oak Trees

    Well over the last few days we have had a bit of rain which has helped the grass to start to green up. This is particularly noticeable on the fields that we cut for hay. However one of the things that we have noticed is that all of the oak trees are full of acorns,

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  • Sheep all Sheered

    Sheep all Sheered

    Well it has been a busy few weeks as we have been occupied with sheering all of our sheep and Moss the Alpaca. Normally we get a professional sheerer in to do everyone, except Moss, and it is all over in a morning. Unfortunately our Sheerer became unavailable so we had to step upto the

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