Tigh Na Allt

Fabulous work with an amazing breed, we don’t have them here anymore (Maddie took ours on when we lost grazing) and we do miss them. However, folk like Maddie at Red Rock Flock are ensuring this breed is well supported and we don’t lose them completely.
North Ronaldsay Sheep Fellowship
Rare Breeds Survival Trust

What did we do today? Today we went Tup shopping! Meet Rowan……
Shearling Fawn Katmoget with a lovely nature, fabulous fleece and bucket trained (bonus!). We’ll collect him in a couple of weeks and he’ll meet the girls in November. It’s always exciting planning for how you want things to progress, even better when you can start implementing those plans.

Stuff from this week. The chicks are growing so quickly, the mum of the older four took herself back off to the main coop a couple of weeks ago so that’s them left to it 🤣 the other 13 still has their mumma hen and she’s showing no signs that she’s had enough yet.
We’ve got the lambs back at the house for weaning, Funzie seems to think he needs to be in the hen section 🙈 Tarran wants to know what’s going on with all the feathery things and the bees were happily buzzing about when the sun made an appearance ☺️🐝 and Anthony found a slow worm down the croft!

Another fabulous day of sheep, cattle, food, crafts, flowers, fleeces, trade stands of everything vaguely agri relevant, more food and catching up with folk. Lovely.

The less enjoyable part of looking after land for livestock, ragwort and bracken control 😩
This patch is an hour’s drive north us and as we haven’t been able to keep our own tup for a couple of years we haven’t used it since last year. Now that we have Benny we need to sort it out for him. We got most of it done before I stamped my feet and demanded a coffee from Flossie's Beach Store and some beach time, despite the rain! That corner can wait until next weekend 😏

Last Friday’s show raised funds for RSABI as well as being a fab wee day, fabulous effort from Assynt Young Crofters Club ☺️

A trip to a beautiful island AND a fabulous workshop ☺️

Just about recovered from Berneray week and in the midst of frantically harvesting plants I’m trying to organise another couple of natural dying sessions 🤯

When the husband pops along to see the neighbour and comes back with a new friend……🤦‍♀️🤭