December Update

Calves are weaned and we sold our two oldest cows through the auction mart in Dingwall for a price slightly less than what we paid for them as heifers …… this just shows how the price of beef has increased in the past few years. 

The hoggs are on the stubble turnip which is a much reduced crop this year due to goose damage.  Whilst we do our utmost to encourage all forms of birdlife and wildlife, it is very disheartening when we see our crop ravaged by greylag geese. The reduced turnip crop means that we have to supplement the hoggs with barley when we would have expected the stubble turnip crop to sustain them through to February.

Cows are being brought home from their autumn grazing and will be going onto silage for the winter.  The rams will be taken inside for a couple of months to give them a boost after their ‘hectic’ social season. The pregnant ewes have feed blocks available to them for minerals and vitamins essential for the wellbeing of themselves and their unborn lambs.