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Posted: Sunday 2 October, 2011

by Rosemary at 8:58am in Sheep 1 comment Comments closed

We brought the tup lambs, tup and wether home this morning from Barry Mill, where they've been grazing for a month. They're now in what will be the poultry runs and orchard, grazing it down.

The tup lambs will be going off to slaughter in a couple of weeks and, of course, Leo will be going in with the ewes at the end of the month. Dickie will go and "uncle" the ewe lambs then.

Leo is smelling quite "tuppy" now. I'm planning to put him in a small and, hopefully, secure area in sight and smell of the ewes from the middle of the month, to bring them into season. This year, we had a nice compact lambing over two weeks - if I can get that next spring too, it will be great.

And so the cycle continues smiley

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SallyintNorth

Wednesday 5 October, 2011 at 1:41pm

I love this time of year - the anticipation of next year's lambing starts now!

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