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calf 12 hours old

beef Shorthorn calf

We’ve decided to call our new calf Fraser.

Bridgett's calf

Bridgett has had her calf. The bull calf was curled up in the straw when we went to check on them this morning.

He couldn’t have arrived on a colder day but both cow and calf are fine.

We spent the weekend administering medication to the lambs and ewes.

On Saturday  we used Vecoxan to prevent coccidiosis in the lambs. The youngest lamb is now 3 weeks old and because they are housed inside we treat against intestinal infection which can spread through the flock. It was a task to catch the lambs as they are extremely fit and difficult to catch.

Today we gave the lambs their 1st dose of Heptavac P. They will receive another injection in 4-6 weeks time. I think the  lambs  realised what was happening because they were even harder to catch today.

The Lleyn ewes who are due in March also received their Heptavac P injection to pass antibodies on to their lambs.

This is the picture on the front of a thank you card made by eight year old Georgia following her visit to the farm. She named a ewe lamb “Pepper”.

Faith nursing a lamb

We now have only 2 ewes left to lamb which means that the barn is packed with ewes and their lambs. I invited my work colleagues and their families over today to see the lambs.What a turn out we had; 14 adults and 8 children togged up in warm clothes and wellies to see the lambs. Martyn managed brilliantly answering questions from the children as well as the adults. It was lovely to share our hard work and let friends from work see for themselves the sheep that they hear me talking so much about.