By EWEN CAMPBELL, SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre research farms manager
AUTUMN is a busy time of the year for all farms, with the harvest taking place on the lower land and store lambs and calves being gathered off the hills and uplands to go for sale. At Kirkton and Auchtertyre, we have been gathering and weaning our lambs and checking the ewes to see if they are fit to use for breeding for another year.
The lambs from our research flock at Kirkton have been weighed and wormed, with the tup lambs in our PARK system utilising the grass before going into the shed to be fattened and the tup lambs in our HILL system going straight into the shed after weaning.