With the snow and frost disappearing this week I have been rounding up the different groups of sheep and checking them over. They all seem to have come through the bad weather pretty well, although I hope we don't return to the quantities of snow we have had over the past couple of months.
In a 'normal' winter I would expect to find some of them maintain and even gain condition allowing us to have a few shearlings to sell through the early spring but this year like last is proving to be a little more challenging. I am hopeful weather permitting that there will be a one or two available through February. The rest are absolutely fine but will require a week or two of spring grass to fatten them up.

The cattle and ponies meantime are happily munching away on their grazing sites. Being larger animals they are much more capable of digging through the snow to the feed buried beneath.