Good morning from this little Ryeland Tup lamb, born at 3am. #lambjng nearly over, phew.
#smallholding #rural #farming #sheep #DumfriesandGalloway

Much of our current day / evenings are being spent in the barn with the sheep. #lambingtime #smallholding #rural #farming #livestock #sheep #dumfriesandgalloway

Our time now for a while is mainly taken up with watching sheep and ensuring that their lambs are all fine. #smallholding #farming #rural #lambing #sheep #ryeland

We have a mystery to solve. One of our ducks has been laying in a secret nest somewhere so we bought a fake, ceramic egg and placed it in a nest to encourage her to lay there. It was a nest made by our goose so a bit oversized for a duck but it was right next to an abandoned duck nest so 🤷 Now the ceramic egg has gone missing...
#RunnerDucks #Smallholding #Crofting

These are our #Ouessant ewes. No lambs for them this year, they're taking a year off.
#sheep #rural #smallholding #DumfriesandGalloway #lambing #landscape

Today I will be mostly taking down poultry runs. Time for a move to another pen for the birds.This keeps them healthy and reduces worms and other parasites. #Chickens #Poultry #SmallHolding

#sunset #silentsunday #landscape #smallholding #rural #calm

We built and fitted a new owl box in our barn a couple of months ago. Several pigeons had started to cheekily build their nest on top of it. Having cleared them away, I thought I'd better check that none of them had got inside. Found this beautiful owl instead!

#owl #rural #smallholding #wildlife #birds #biodiversity #farming