[OhLaLa]

The other day a neighbouring farmers sheep looked like any other flock, but this morning they are positively glowing and bright white, from a distance I thought they had been sheared.

He's been dipping?? (I'd ask but I never see him).

    

[daddymatty82]

not allowed to dip are they?

[OhLaLa]

I'm a newbie shepherd so I haven't a clue daddymatty82. He could have just dipped them in Persil for all I know - 'whiter than white'.   

I'm just baffled as to why 30 + sheep are soooo clean.

To quote Toyah - it's a mystery.   

 

[ellisr]

we need to know his secret as mine are scruffy with the wet weather

[Pony-n-trap]

Could it be that 'bloom' stuff they dip or spray them in to sell?

We noticed some in the field in front of our steading were........bright yellow!!  They had just been bought in.

[VSS]

not allowed to dip are they?

Yes

[jinglejoys]

If they are truely glowing maybe he got them from N.wales or Cumbria!

[Hardfeather]

If they are truely glowing maybe he got them from N.wales or Cumbria!

Or Scotland!

Remember we had restrictions put on some of our hill farms after Chernobyl too. In fact I think there are still farms with restrictions on them.

I was doing a hill lambing in Glenlochay that year, and it rained the whole time. It was so bad that we eventually stopped going to the hill as the risk of lambs being swept away in the torrential hill burns was too great. So we left the ewes to it in the hope that they wouldn't move around too much with young lambs.

The farmhouse water supply was straight off the hill and, after sifting out the frogs and debris, we ate our breakfast and drank our tea while we listened to the breaking news about Chernobyl on the radio. The farm I was on, and the neighbouring farms all had restrictions placed on them thereafter. The lambings were disastrous, due more to the rain than the fall-out.

I'll never forget being constantly soaked, and the roar of the water coming off the hill and down the glen.