The Cottage Flock of Vendeen Sheep

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2011 Commercial Lambing:

The commercial lambing season was in total contrast to the pedigrees. The weather was dry and warm and allowed the ewes and lambs to go to grass quickly and get off to a great start. This year we had a few very busy lambing days which highlighted our need for more lambing pens. Only the weather was so kind, there would have been losses. Some lambs were going out at less than 12 hours old.

There was a good crop and minimal losses at lambing. The yearling ewes dragged on a bit later than we would have liked because of the severe weather in November/December. We left the rams out a bit longer than usual. The lambing did not finish until 8^th May.

2011 Pedigree Lambing:

The 2011 lambing season began in the frosty days before Christmas 2010. The lambs survived the weather conditions better than the shepherds! Breaking ice, ferrying water, gritting yards, de-icing spectacles all among the chores every day for 4 weeks. The New Year welcomed the lambs from the AI and milder weather.

The Cottage Flock is the proud winner of the Irish Vendeen Sheep Society Show Flock of the Year for 2010

The Show flock of the year is based on points from each breeders' 8 best shows from the society's list. For a class to be eligible it must have 3 or more entries from 2 or more breeders.

News from Irish Vendeen Sheep Society:

The Society launched their first website on 26th February 2008. This will be a source of information from and about the Vendeen breed of sheep. Events, such as sales and shows will be listed there. Sale catalogues, news and photographs will be uploaded as they become available. So to log on click here and see for yourself what is there.

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