I recall making a worrying prediction about the lambing weather in early March. Well we largely dodged that snow bullet, with very little collateral damage. Very few mastitis cases – under 2%, and most of those out in the field, a couple of weeks after lambing. Apart from those “casualties”, lambing went remarkably smoothly. I
7th Feb 2017 I am afraid that I never seem to get round to updating you on what is happening with the Culland Lleyn. Best will in the world… do you know the problem? A quick summary of the autumn will be familiar to nearly everyone – stacks of grass but lamb growth rates way
I am aware of the rather large gap since the last update on here for which apologies. Looking back over the back end of the year, the last of the fat lambs went to Dunbia at the beginning of December. As you may know, we don’t feed any concentrates, all our fat lambs are off
July 2015 After an unusually cold May and early June, we eventually got a good first cut of haylage bailed. With grass now getting well ahead of the sheep we will no doubt land up with a surplus, which is where I like to be. During the summer we rigorously graze on a paddock system,
Lambing went well this year with very few problems. As usual about 90% lambed in the first cycle with one or two determined to drag it out to the last day. Our lambing percentage was a little down at about 1.75% (1.84% in 2014), which reflects the scanning numbers, which were also down. A number