CharcoalWally
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- Location
- West of Scotland
The hills are just as hard to shepherd if not harder on Springs like this.Sometimes l envy those hill men, old blackie ewes out on big hill, a few blocks, just check them once a day, and take what you get, If one aborted you wouldn't know. These big x ewes in fields and sheds are just a nightmare. And take a fortune in cake to Keep them up. Sometimes l wonder?????
I drove over to Stirling from Balloch last Wednesday to sell cattle in UA.
Driving from Drymen to Ballat Station I looked around the hills. Every one a snow white out on March 7th, 4 -6 weeks off a lot of hill lambings starting.
That was the Perthshire hills, the Ochils and the Campsies . I bet these hill men would have swapped you for your ewes in a shed.
'Herding the hills is no easy option.