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It seems like spring has arrived – daffodils are out, hawthorn is about to come into leaf, there are lambs, calves and a plough on the ground and even some fresh snow on the back hills. Our 125 pure Texels started lambing yesterday, which come into the shed at night and can stay in if the weather is rough, however, once they have lambed they will need to go outside pretty sharp as they are quite tight – although there is a contingency plan if the weather doesn’t play ball. I get up once through the night to check them but we try just to supervise than assist. Last year 60% of them...

We gathered up ram lambs out of tupping groups a few days over their 17-day first cycle. These ewes joined up with some of the older stock rams, that were raddled to mark changeover and hopefully highlight any lates. With lambing so late outside, we don’t raddle rams the first cycle – just really looking for clarification on sires at the change-over and a check that everybody has been working. With so much mud around during tupping it has been easy to see that the rams have been jumping anyway. There are very few coloured bums around so far, which is a relief.