I’ve a friend who is setting up a smallholding in West Wales.
We’d been planning that she would buy a few small, well-handled Shetland and similar size sheep from me to get her started. However, now we’ve looked into the journey, it’s an insane distance journey to put them through.
So I’m wondering if there’s anyone out that way with Shetlands or similar size sheep, nice and tame, nice fleeces for spinning, which would suit her? She’s not wanting them until the autumn, when she will be at her holding full time and will have fences sorted etc.
Local sheep, acclimatised to the local tick-borne diseases and so on, and with a local person for backup, would make so much more sense for her. She’s a novice with sheep herself, but does have people nearby who can help and advise her, and she’s highly motivated to give them an excellent standard of care.