Lambing season has kicked off, a little earlier this year with 250 ewes due over the next 2 weeks. Sheep are very accurate in their gestation period, with pregnancy lasting 147 days with only a couple of days variation,...
We never like to tempt fate by mentioning our new arrivals too soon, but I think we can now say that Zola has 4 healthy pups, two dogs and two bitches. They arrived last Monday night without any problems...
The darkest times of the sheep farming year are surely the weeks around Christmas when the wind and rain turns the daily feeing rounds into the battle of the mud. In recent years we’ve been fortunate to have freezing...
The weeks before Christmas weren’t good ones for Jake, as he spent 3 nights in the vets! Jake is now over ten years old and at that age dogs tend to start feeling their age, but it was still...
If you came to our displays over the summer months you may have met my new young sheepdog ‘Sweep.’ He’s one of Fly’s pup’s, born a year ago, and for the past six months he’s been undergoing his first...
For the past few years I’ve been crossing the Borough Farm Romney ewes with a Blue Faced Leicester ram. The reason is simple, our Romney ewes are great at looking after themselves on our poor and windy coastal grazing,...
The summer months are busy for us at Borough Farm, and competing at Sheepdog trials had to take second place to all of the commitments on the farm, but last Saturday I made it to the Brentor trial on...
The toughest job of the year by far, for my sheepdogs is the first gather of the new seasons lambs. It’s the first time that lambs are moved as a flock, up until this point they just follow their...
If you’ve read some of my blogs over the past 18 months, you might have gathered that I’m hoping for great things from Zola. She’s now just over 2 years old and has been a constant companion for me...
As ever the last weeks of the lambing season has flown by. Although the icy east wind howled through the lambing barns almost daily, we have fared far better than sheep farmers in the North of the country. For...
