The show lambs are back home again now – they were supposed to be in isolation for a few days but they managed to squeeze through the gate! The boys are sorting out their pecking order again – it looks worse than it is & they have all settled down again now🐏🐏🐏🐏🙂
And here are the results! 1 first, 3 seconds, a third and a fourth. Really pleased as we were up against one of the biggest local flocks & the judge commented that he’d been hard pressed to choose between us!🥇🥈🥉🐏
Congratulations!
Yay well done x
Well done
Wow Brilliant achievement- well done guys n' girls 🥂👌🥰
What a brilliant achievement, well done 👏 x
Fantastic- just as I expected! Xx
Thankyou everyone – we've had a good day!😃
Congratulations 🥳👏
Congratulations 👏
Congratulations 👏
Lovely meeting you today … looking forward to being in touch again soon … (Schoeman family from Lamberhurst) 😉
The four show lambs have arrived at the showground & seem to have settled in. We’ve done all the preparation we can for tonight so fingers crossed for the judging tomorrow!🤞🐏🐏🐏🐏🤞
Good luck, look forward to seeing all your rosettes tomorrow! 🏆🏅🏵
Looking good😁🐏
Good luck for today 🏅
Good luck for the show, they're looking great.
And today one of our ram lambs (George) went off to his new home! Really pleased for him 🙂
He does look splendid, glad they are going to good homes x
What a handsome chap, I am sure he’ll be a hit with the girls!
Today our lovely shearling ram affectionately known as BB or Barney’s Baby, left us for his new home – he’s off to a RBST (rare breed survival trust) farm www.churchfarmstowbardolph.co.uk – where he should have a great time helping to promote and protect the Jacob breed.🐏🐏
He comes from such good stock, he will do you proud.
& here he is with his new Norfolk Horn bestie!
We have a very strange phenomenon in one of fields today after all the rain yesterday! Think water bed!🌧⛈🌧💦💧💦🛏🌧🙂
Happy August!
Wow
How odd. Dig you delve any deeper?
Look who we found in the field this morning! Calf no.2 – another little boy – arrived very early today without any help at all. Well done mum!🐂🐂
Well done mummy 👏👏👏👏 what gorgeous baby ❤❤
96 bales – hooray! Hopefully what we may have lost in quality due to the rain we have made up for in quantity!
The team are off trying to finish all their other hay before the rain so stacking will have to wait a while but we are just pleased it’s safely harvested.🚜🌾🌾🙂
At last – the hay is finally baled & wrapped! The wrapper is actually still working at this very moment – it may be after midnight but rain is forecast for the weekend so it has to be done!
Phew! Well done
Glad you were finally able to get the job done xx
I am also relieved for you!
It’s raining again….⛈⛈⛈⛈⚡️⚡️ Baler was on his way. Back to square one, turning again tomorrow. Lucky we make wrapped haylage rather than hay
Oh no, had hoped It missed you
Noooo still none in Tonbridge! Whyyyyy
Back to turning the hay again today – the forecast does show possible thunderstorms this afternoon 🤞 they miss us this time.
Well, today didn’t quite go to plan! The hay had been turned, dried and rowed & was all set for baling this evening when this happened. We had checked several forecasts and the chance of rain varied from 2% to 20% & just a bit of cloud. It went from steaming hot & hazy sun to thunder & lightening in about 5 minutes! Hey Ho, back to drying & turning again – the forecast (ha ha) is hot! hot! hot! so we will just have to try again!🤞☀️☀️☀️🌾🚜
I thought of you today and the hay. It was something, wasn't it?! Reassured still that the met office can't predict everything, but hope that you get to dry your hay xxx
Really unlucky, no rain in Sevenoaks apparently !
Oh no, 🤞for the next few days x
Could’ve done with that rain in Tonbridge – my garden is parched!
No rain here either!
Noooo how frustrating
Oh bad luck! Looks like we dodged it here in sunny Tenterden 🌞
Hooray! At last the hay has been cut and is drying beautifully in the sun. (we were getting a bit worried that it would never happen with all the rain we’ve had lately!) and it looks like a great crop which is really needed after only getting about half our usual yield last year. Atm the forecast is for a weather window long enough to turn it a few times and bale & wrap🤞🤞🤞 ☀️☀️☀️🌾🌾
Well done 🤞x
Well done! Has the ground dried up ok? Ours is still very ‘soft’ !
The sheep are now back & enjoying the amazing grass that has grown while they have been away!🐏🌾☘️🐏🐑🐏🌧🌧🌾🌾After a successful few weeks of grazing, the sheep have left Cinderhill!
They have made a great dent in the heathland, and we look forward to see what will be done in the next grazing season.
We want to thank everyone for their patience and consideration during the grazing period, and confirm that the heathland enclosure is now open again!
Look like they have full bellies 🙂
Our new calf is growing well & getting more confident every day! P.S. it’s a boy!🐂🐮
oooh..beef!
Hes beautiful 😍
Good picture
Ahh. Not Jackie then. Auntie Jackie will be disappointed… 😁
Giles Milner