Greenfield Croft 

 

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Lambing is a wonderful time, with the young lambs being born around the middle to the end of April.  Orphan lambs have to be bottle fed four times a day until they are about three weeks old. 

When we have orphan lambs, everyone is invited to help feed them.  

Jess our new young croft collie, is very gentle with the wee lambs, and normally waits until they are a bit older, before she shows them who is boss.   


We cut and bale our own hay, sometime between the end of June and early August.  

The hay after cutting, is "turned" a couple of times to dry it off.

Here the hay is "doubled up" ready for the square baler coming in.

 Hay making time (7715 bytes)




Fraoch, sadly no longer with us, like any other dog, was never as happy as when she was involved in what's going on.  Here she was guarding the bales. She lived to nearly her sixteenth birthday. Her one love was working the sheep.

, We had an addition to the family, and now have a very boisterous young dog called Jess.  She's now all grown up but when she was only a few weeks old we took this picture........