Displaying 41 to 50 of 61 results for wool
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Birthdays / Planting / Clouties / Mucking out
Monday 16th April Dan has embarked on a tidying of the workshop. He may be some time. I visited a local primary school today to talk about wool (they’re doing a topic…
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Dickie is dead
Feeling a bit gutted this afternoon. Dickie, our Coloured Ryeland wether, died today. He was one of our first crop of lambs in 2009. He had a white streak of wool on his face…
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Meg / Bryn & Ceri / Snow / Straw / Weaners
Monday 9th January Took Meg to the vet and she’s been kept in overnight on fluids. Poor old girl. She’s in the best place. Hope to get her home tomorrow. Tuesday…
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A trip to the abattoir
We took the barren ewe and the tup to the abattoir on Wednesday. We were told to be there at 8am, and it's an hour and a half away so we decided to load them the night before. The…
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Strathearn Tour de Fleece
Let’s keep it simple - The idea is to spin every day that the Tour de France is on, recording what you spin – fibre, singles or plying etc – every day. Add up…
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Sunshine / Cows / Broken PTO
Monday 31st May First job this morning was to dose the lambs with white wormer to protect them against Nematodirus; the NADIS report said we were a red area. I rode Smokey.…
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Cattle and pigs away; mittens and yarn; possible orf
Monday 17th October So the pigs and the cattle are away. The pigs loaded a treat; we put them into our trailer when we fed them this morning then transferred them to the…
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Lambing prep / Fruit & veg gardens / Spring cleaning
Monday 19th March Spring’s back – although nor sure for how long, but we’ll enjoy it while it lasts. Bug has been breaching the electric fence, so that was…
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Officially Spring
So, weather-wise, it’s been a pretty good week. Yesterday (Sunday) was officially the first day of Spring or the Festival of Ostara or the vernal equinox – and that…
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Update w/e 16th August
Well, we've seen the end of an era here this week. Our old Rhode Island Red hen finally fell off the perch, literally. We bought her as part of a batch of eight point of lay…
