Topic: Crofts & Small Farms
Keeping children safe during lambing
Lambing is an exciting time seeing new-born lambs either in their pens or lambing outside and taking their first steps. Equally exciting is how young…
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Future Crofting: Don’t fear the new gear
Don’t fear the new gear. This meeting looked at two different technologies for livestock which were available under the Scottish Agricultural Capital Grant Scheme. Sheep…
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Letting a Croft
In this short video we explain why and how to let a croft, which differs from sublets and assignations. Owner occupier crofters, and landlords, might…
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Sheep management in coastal areas
Sheep and Grassland Specialist Poppy Frater talks to Richard Briggs of Briggs Shetland Lamb – a company which sells Shetland lamb across the country from…
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VLOG – Road to Market
The culmination of a year’s hard work, the sheep sales in the autumn are an exciting time. But they are not the only option for…
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VLOG – Tagging and Vaccinating
Autumn tasks include tagging your lambs and vaccinating them against clostridial diseases. Watch Aoife, Jake, and their team of helpers work together to carry this…
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VLOG – First Time On The Quad
A quad bike has become a ubiquitous part of crofting and farming life. However, in the wrong hands can be a danger to yourself and…
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VLOG – Crofting Improvements
Taking on a new croft, one of the first jobs will be to assess what the ground is like, what it is capable of, and…
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