Well we finished the ram shelter just as the rain was starting. It was touch and go, frenetic, tiring and, when it was over, satisfying. And pretty impressive seeing as we were using a minimum of bought-in lumber - using things to hand instead like old railway sleepers (cut down for the four corner posts) leftover joists, lathes and old slates from ( Read more... )

Terrible news for rams. The moment we erected our new fence to separate the sheep, the weather changed. We went from cold and dry to monsoon. Harmon, our ram, has taken it personally. A week ago he shared a stone cottage with a group of woolly temptresses, now he has his own field ... and no shelter. We'd planned to build a shelter the day after we ( Read more... )

Well, fencing time is upon us - not the pointy sword variety but the sharpened stakes and lots of work variety. Currently we're splitting our sheep field in two to make a ram enclosure. We tried an electric fence but Harmon - our ram - has broken through it two years running now. Which is why we're lambing three weeks earlier than planned ( Read more... )