Author Archives: Neil

This year’s lambs are coming on well, all growing nicely with no health problems   All the ewes come to the bucket but Freya will feed from the hand, she’s not been bottle fed but has always been sociable and … Continue reading →

The garden is now in bloom – the evening light makes for a good photo opportunity

Another lamb to the flock this evening, Bambi has lambed – healthy looking and black. Nora is now in the byre with her 2 ewe lambs as they are looking fairly spindly and weak. Geese and goslings also closed up … Continue reading →

      Nora gave birth to twin lambs this morning both very small, we’ll have to get them in the byre overnight as it is still very cold and showery. Geraldine’s lamb, born 3 days ago, is looking very … Continue reading →

Day of horrendous weather – gale force winds and driving rain. Lost one gosling overnight and another later. Moved the geese from North Park to the salmon bin shelter on the rigs as they tried to cross the burn in … Continue reading →

Finally got the tatties in the ground today, ground still to wet to work extensively but dry enough to get the tatties in. They will still need to be mulched but that can be done over the next couple of … Continue reading →

         Our Faorese geese have hatched out 8 goslings who are now happily wandering around the park. Hopefully they’ll fare better than last year when they also hatched out 8 but only 3 made it to maturity … Continue reading →

Lambing is going reasonably well from our modest flock of Shetland sheep, we currently have 3 lambs from 3 ewes. Still have 5 more to lamb but as they were on the hill over winter not expecting them to lamb … Continue reading →

Sunday 8th Jan seemed to be the first dry, still day we’ve had for weeks and we managed to get out and take some photos and do some work The lambs are doing well and looking healthy, although they do … Continue reading →