All was well on Sunday morning, 3 new lambs were born, a single and a set of twins. Dad was on the early morning shift with Amber, Abbie and Aila so plenty hands to help sort them all out. I went down with the team, minus Dad.  All was well but the pens were full so we needed to free …

My first morning off, Dad, Abbie and Amber did the early shift. There were three new lambs a set of twins and a single. All were fine and taken out of the big pen and put in individual pens. We went down a little later Abbie, Aila, Tilly and myself. Aila has a new found braveness and enjoys walking through …

The first morning in the Big Green Shed! I had some extra help this morning, not least of all from Aila and Tilly but also Abbie, Alisha and a friend up from Edinburgh, Amber. We tentatively walked into the shed and spotted a lamb. As soon as we went all the ewes were up and looking to be fed so …

Today was a big day for Sand Farm. My brother has finished building an agricultural shed and today was the day we put the ewes into it. This is the first time in 49 years that there has been an indoor lambing and the first, ever, indoor lambing for Dad in his 70 odd years of farming. We had a …

After a year off last year to have our 3rd child Rory, I’m back West for another lambing season. I’m not sure quite what the draw is but I do enjoy helping Dad at lambing and if it means Dad is able to keep the sheep for a couple of more years it makes it all the more worthwhile. It …