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[Rosemary]

Well done - that's a huge number of ewes. Enjoy your holiday - I hear New Zealand is nice...

[woollyval]

Quick get a break.....silage will be starting soon

[dixie]

1700 ewes!   and I heaved a sigh of relief after my 4 lambed!!

[woollyval]

1700 ewes!   and I heaved a sigh of relief after my 4 lambed!!

A while ago.....fair while....bout 20 years.....I worked as shepherd for lambing with a flock of 2000 kerry hills and mules.
At one point I had sooooo many spare lambs in a huge pen with an ad lib feeder that I could hardly keep up with fostering them ...........we still ended up with about 30 odds n sods that were too small, too dim, too ill etc to be fostered..........did I sigh with relief when we got the last trailer full out to the fields so I know why Pentre needs a holiday....without the sight of a sheep