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Proud to be a single farm producer of British wool (Wool Marketing Board exemption certificate has been granted).
On our small holding we run two micro flocks. That has enabled me to home breed crosses to get better feet and lovely creamy white fleeces, and also keep pure bred Jacobs and a single pedigree Balwen... We keep some lambs for home grown meat and the pure bred Jacob lambs go to the Rare Breeds sale in Inverurie each autumn. All our animals are kept with consideration for their well being and probably cossetted a wee bit too much.
Please bear with me.. Our journey to this lifestyle has been an adventure and my head is full of possibilities and crazy schemes. Setting up this web site as a shop window for our produce has been a while in coming and this is still very much under construction.. it is just taking longer than hoped.
Blessings
Jenny
 Meet our girls Caitlin, our unregistered pedigree Balwen ewe and her Jacob cross twin girls April 2016. Is she the most northerly Balwen?? |
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 Domino, Caitlins 3:1 Balwen/Border Leicester daughter and her Border Leicester cross twins by our BL ram Caesar April 2016 |
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 Molly our Border Leicester cross Cheviot ewe (out of Bethanys pet ewe Maisie)had twins and the boy went bald at a week old, so I made him a quilted jacket to help him with the Orkney spring weather |
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 some of our pure bred Jacob lambs April 2015 |
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 2015 saw us wake on our wedding anniversary to a perfect set of Jacob triplets. Trip was a fiercely protective Mum, who has had a whopping single boy lamb this spring. Named Handsome, he has been kept to go to the Rare Breeds and Jacobs autumn sale next year as a shearling ram. 2017 spring Trip had triplets again, the boys are doing fine but little Jo struggled fromt eh off, she was caddie/bottle fed and after a couple of weeks we reintroduced her back to her mum full time, not just for at night. She did well, and Trip was allowing her to feed and had taken her back in the field but sadly last week ravens got her - maybe she was dozing in the sun too far from the others. |
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 Meet 'Tiny' born weighing less than half the weight of her big brother she soon showed her true colours and a complete tinker in her quilted jacket which she soon outgrew. She is still small for her age, but is set to join the flock of 'keepers' and this year her Mum has had girl boy twins who are doing fine. |
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