Its taken a while to get round to doing this post. Lifes been really busy of late, which is good, but theres not a lot of time left for blogging!!
Last Sunday the Skipton branch of the Mule Sheep Association held an open day at the home of Ken and Lynne Throup. The sun shone down,it was a beauitiful day up on Silsden Moor and Kens sheep were a credit to him, as were his spotlessly clean buildings courtesy of Lynne and the pressure washer ( we wives have our uses!!). There was a good turn out of Mule sheep breeders there and over numerous cups of tea and mountains of cake the world was put to rights. Theres much anticipation of the forth coming lamb sales as trade is very buoyant at the moment, long may it continue!!!
The pictures show a pen of Mule Gimmer ( female) lambs . one of several classes put out to judge. Even I had a go!!. There were classes for 4 lambs, 4pens of 4 lambs, Mule ewes, Swaledale ewes and fat lambs. Incredibly I managed 50 out of 50 in the fat lamb class and ended up with an overall score of 221 points. It was way short of the winner but I was quite pleased! The top picture is Mr David Brown from Agglethorpe who acted as Master Judge for the event and Jeff Throup Chairman of the Skipton branch.
Today Chris has mown grass to make some hay, the forecast is good and hopefully it will bale in a few days.
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