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What Sheep Farmers Want You to Know

September 6, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

If you want to know about teaching, you would go and ask a teacher so if you want to know about farming, a farmer should be your first port of call to see what really happens. As sheep farmers ourselves, I think it is important to tell people what we do. I asked a group … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: farming, lamb, lambing, sheep, sheep farming

Best Ever Lamb Recipes

September 3, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

It’s all very well me harping on to you all about eating more British lamb for the sake of farming but what do you actually do with it when you get it? Well, I asked a group of bloggers to tell you what they do with it and the results will have you salivating at … [Read more…]

Posted in: Recipes Tagged: #lovelambweek, Britsh lamb, lamb, lamb recipes, sheep farming

Love Lamb Week

September 1, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

The next generation of sheep farmers is calling on the next generation of shoppers to put lamb back on plates across Britain through Love Lamb Week and let lamb hit you in the chops. According to the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB),over the past 15 years, fewer people have been regularly eating this very … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: lamb, Love Lamb Week, recipes, sheep, sheep farming

Shearing The Rams In April -Something New On The Farm

April 29, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy Leave a Comment

I am sure you are aware that April is not traditionally sheep shearing season. Some farmers shear the bottoms of their flocks (dagging) in Spring or before tupping (mating) but full shearing doesn’t usually happen until summer. There are some really woolly breeds however that really benefit from being shorn twice a year. Valais Black … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: family farm, rams, shearing, sheep farming, Sheep shearing

Lambing 2019 is Underway

April 5, 2019 by farmerswifeandmummy 1 Comment

We are well into lambing now and I think most people are aware of what happens. We are lambing inside this year so the farmer goes into the shed each morning to see if any have been born. If he is lucky, all the new lambs are with their mothers and he pens them up … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: farm life, lambing, lambing 2019, sheep, sheep farming

The 7 Stages of Lambing

April 13, 2018 by farmerswifeandmummy 6 Comments

Lambing is in full swing at the farm and, as I was sitting on my own one night as the children slept and the farmer saw to the new arrivals, I got thinking about lambing. It can go on for six to eight weeks which, on the face of it, doesn’t seem too bad. When … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: ewes, farming family, lambing, sheep, sheep farming

Are petting farms dumbing down the public’s view of farming?

February 9, 2016 by farmerswifeandmummy 8 Comments

As a farmer’s wife, you would thing I had see enough animals (never) and the last place I would visit would be a petting farm. As a parent though, when it’s raining and your friend rings you, inviting you to a dry petting farm, you go-if only to tire your children out. We have been … [Read more…]

Posted in: Farming Tagged: Addicted to Sheep, farming, lambing, sheep, sheep farming
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