Gathering hebrideans

and a few blackfaced. Marking the lambs at the farm where we manage the livestock today if you look closely you can see clever Pip a huge distance from me pushing on those two straggler lambs. Ewes got a good sorting though to mark any that are too old or have bad udders or no teeth. They are to be this years cast. Then they all got a pour on for ticks and blowfly strike. Lambs got their lug marks (where we take a small section of ear that is a way of identifying the lamb to the specific farm and also in this case males and females get separate marks. Before tags this was one of the main ways to identify different farms sheep from each other. The males have been castrated and they all have had a pour on for ticks. They are in the hill park to mother up and will be off to the hill in the next couple of days.

We came home to find our yearling cattle in the yard, they had broken through the sheep to hill exit that we had made or maybe the sheep had itched on it and knocked it down either way they had escaped so we put them back up and have rebuilt it. Last ewe has also lambed today thank goodness. A bonny wee ewe lamb but mum isn't so keen on it. Had same problem last year with the last lamb. Silly sheep!! Right enough rambling its bath time I stink!!

13c overcast all day