Bringing our Wildlife to you!
Over the past two days we have had lots of new photographs emailed to us. It may take a while for them to be put on the Photo page, but all will be. Today’s start from number one. Sorry Lynne, I somehow forgot to put your name to your photographs. Picture 1 is of Marley […]
The land that we rented when we first move to Somerset, before we had purchased Denbury was to small for the amount of Sheep that I had purchased. If I remember correctly it was 117 Ewes that I had purchased all together. There would be ample grass through the Summer, but as soon as the […]
Although the Sheep are penned up, the Lambs are able to get through the bars of the pen, to be able to wander where ever they want. They don’t go to far from the Ewes, but far enough to be out of site from the Ewes, who call out endlessly until the Lambs return. Now […]
Of course I did take the Sheep comment as a joke, unfortunately you wouldn’t have realised how appropriate it was. Or you may well have jinxed me. Just as we were finishing feeding the sheep this morning, down the farm lane came the next door neighbours Land Rover. I knew exactly what he was going […]
I would not profess to being a Sheep farmer, I can trim their feet and do general sheep husbandry, all the other jobs like sheering etc, I leave to the professionals, who we pay. I only keep sheep to improve the pasture after the Horses have grazed the fields and paddocks. Horses are fussy eaters, […]
We have twelve lambs now, there are more due looking at the udders of the Ewes. I should think most of them will have their lambs within a couple of weeks. Three of the Texel Ewes have five lambs between them, they seem to be staying very close to each other. Today is the first […]
The honking Geese leaving the lake woke us early this morning, and what a morning they woke us too. The sun was shining and the birds singing, what a change from the past two days, the worst this year. The fields are sodden and the wind was so fierce last night, that the main badger […]
We have 24 sheep on the farm, we only keep them to eat of the grass that the horses leave, and of course their droppings fertilise the fields and our holiday visitors and their children love to see them and their lambs. They are free range, touch wood they don’t stray to far, although they […]