the new arrivals

First lambs. A Wiltshire Horn triplet born yesterday. One will be taken off today and fostered onto a single ewe.












The first Longhorn calf this year in Kings Walden park. The picture was taken when he was a few hours old, and before the regulation ear tags were inserted.

a cut and come again harvest

While we are on the subject of baking, this is turning out to be one of those 'cut and come again' harvests whereby the combine works for a few hours or a day on the wheat then it rains and everyone stops and then a bit later it starts all over again.

So far the most accurate weather forecasting has been from Norway.
Click here to see our weather forecast for the next 48 hours.

In the meantime we have had the first few lambs away at 6am today, 2 Wiltshire Horns and 5 Polled Dorset cross Wiltshire Horn. Anyone with orders for lamb boxes should hopefully hear from us within the next month.

Sheep safely grazing

Some of our Wiltshire Horn ewes in the park at Kings Walden. This permanent grazing is believed to date back as far as medieval times as a deer park.

See the new oak trees we planted as part of a large Higher Level Stewardship [HLS] scheme.

Our lambing is due to start in April and it is all done outside on an extensive system unlike BBC 2's lambing live, which is an intensive system but was brilliant television.