The flock grows

So our initial flock of six had now grown to fifteen roaming across the field. Unfortunately one lamb died after getting hung up in a section of fencing - even checking the flock several times a day can't prevent every untoward thing from occurring.

As summer progressed our thoughts turned to next year's lambing and our plans to expand the flock further. Serendipitously the suppliers of our first sheep then advertised that they had a further group of shearlings for sale. We had been thinking of adding an additional six ewes but as they had seven available it seemed to be the right thing to take the group and we quickly agreed the purchase.

They were collected in late July and after a quarantine period and check for worms (the faecal egg counts had been zero in all our sheep) they went out in the field to join the rest of the flock in August.