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The Relaxed Farming Sheep: Why keep sheep...
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Why keep sheep
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Relaxed FarmingWhy keep sheep... (as answered by Mrs White). Sheep and smallholdings go together like... chips and tomato ketchup, kids and their mobile phones, lamb and mint sauce (whoops, should I have said that?). And why? Smallholdings have grass and we LOVE grass.

  • Grass is good for us: Read more

  • We keep things tidy and help prevent erosion: Read more

  • Spring lamb is one of your favourite meats: Read more

  • Every year we produce a fabulous woolly fleece: we need our fleece in the winter but in the summer you are welcome to it and it is such a relief when we get sheared and are cool again.

    Our fleeces can get made into wool which you then turn into loads of different things such as socks, jumpers, hats, coats, blankets, carpets, even nappies.

    When our lambs go off for meat their whole skin is then used to make beautiful rugs for your floors and furniture. A sheepskin rug in a pram will keep human babies beautifully warm...

  • We don't need much additional feeding: Read more

  • We are easy to handle: Read more

  • We also make great pets: Read more

 Mrs Brown's fleece fresh from shearing...
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A sheepskin rug from last year's flock.
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