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Posted: Wednesday 27 August, 2008
Well, a little bit of it is! It smells lovely, it's a glorious colour and I'm chuffed to bits with it. I'll be sending off more to be spun this week. Now that he's seen it spun, Dan's decided he'd like a sweater, too. So does his Dad! I can see I might get bed socks if I'm lucky!
Condition scoring (CS) is a way of assessing how thin or fat your sheep (or any other animal) are i.e. what condition th
From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, sheep were kept not for their meat but for their fleece.
Scanning ewes for pregnancy allows the shepherd to feed the pregnant sheep appropriately for the number of lambs she is
Hello, I'm Rosemary Champion, aka the Accidental Smallholder. I'm a smallholder in the east of Scotland and started this website to help other people who are interested in smallholding to find their way, and to share my experiences.
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