The Ox-Mountain Hill Sheep group held the launch of their sheep handling unit on Saturday last on Colm ODonnells farm in Monalea, Aclare, Co. Sligo. Colm is employed by Sligo LEADER Partnership under ...

IMAGINE this scenario. You have a 40-acre outfarm two miles from home with 200 ewes and lamb grazing on it. A good few of the lambs are lame, they are due a dose, a few ewes are hobbling and some are ...

Efficient use of a mobile sheep-handling yard can help reduce stress and fatigue, and lower fixed costs, benefiting sheep, dogs and staff. Grant funding has helped more UK farms benefit from the time ...

HILL sheep farming has never been the most popular of professions, but, bring in a new multi-purpose shed and an all singing, all dancing computerised sheep handling facility and the sector takes on a ...