February - Cullimores Farm News

Cold and windy weather continued to dominate through February, with lots of cold dry days and one particular day of horrendous snow storms, which caused chaos on the roads for making deliveries.

February is traditionally the month when we look towards housing our sheep in anticipation of lambing time, they are all pregnancy scanned to tell us how many lambs each ewe is carrying. This is a vital management tool for us, so that we can feed the correct amount of cake to each ewe and avoid the lambs being very large or very small. When they are scanned they are then separated into pens according to how many lambs they are carrying and housed indoors until they give birth. The ewes scanned and around 190% which is exceptional.

Meanwhile the cows continue to calve with minimal assistance, but it is vital that there is someone on hand to assist if necessary. We have had up to date one of the best calving periods ever – with the calves being very strong and healthy right from the word go, and we have had 3 sets of twins which is very rare.

Farmers markets continue to be very busy and trade is brisk. Our beef and lamb burgers continue to be as popular as ever on the cross on Fridays. Stroud farmers market has also gone from strength to strength with Maggie continuing to strengthen sales and fulfilling all of our customers needs.