Highland surrogates

6 highlands that are due to calf in the next week we’re walked up to the calving field yesterday. All carrying Lowline embryos. The field has been rested over what has been hopefully the worst of the winter. This field normally stocks cattle all year round with no...

Not long till lambing starts

The sheep and goats are getting ready to start lambing in about 10 days . We have had a couple of ewes with prolapses this week as they get near which isn’t ideal but David was able to get them cleaned and back into place.

Snow!

We got a reasonable dump of snow yesterday and then the strange conditions of  freezing rain overnight has left a thick ice layer over everything. David has been busy thawing our water lines to keep the water flowing and will be out as long as it takes in whatever...

Throwback Thursday…..to a proper winter

Apologies again for the lack of recent posts. Here is a picture from 3 years ago, when we had a proper winter instead of the horrible grey wet one we are having this year! Lowlines in the snow. They are true hardy animals that will happily live out all year with just...