Behind the scenes there is a lot of activity going on to produce lovely bespoke items for sale from our Smeafield Coloured Ryeland wool.  The range will include jewellery which we are branding Ewellery.  The majority of our flock are females hence ‘Ewe’llery as our brand. The chunky socks are also being hand-knitted as well […]

Really pleased for Michele Varmen of #Snelsoncolouredryelands for winning the huge Ewe Lamb Class at Masham Sheep Fair with Roxy. It was Roxys very first show so even more great. We at #smeafieldcolouredryelands are extra proud as our Twinnie is related! Roxy and Twinnie share the same wonderful sire Yorvik Viking. I actually agreed the […]

This is one of our black North Country Cheviot ram lambs. Of course the Coloured Ryelands are my favourites but I do love these rare Black North Country Cheviot sheep too.  They are so different from the Coloured Ryelands, they are opposite in almost every way. I love their fleeces, with short shiny & silky […]

So we have just received our very last 3 bought in sheep on to the farm.  This now means we have all the sheep on site that we want, and will not be buying anymore in until we need new ram bloodlines in 2 or so years time. Our Coloured Ryeland rams – Greenfield Pendragon, […]

The genetics of our flock is strengthened by its diversity of bloodlines from different regions of the UK. Our original ewes Barbara, Gale & Titch we bought from the Maesgwyn flock in Cardigan in Wales.  We then returned to Wales a few months later to buy Fudge, Marble & Dotty from the Y Fenni flock […]

In showing classes yesterday Georgie & Smeafield Xindel (Twix) & me with Smeafield Xowie (Gizmo). HUGE classes for Any Other British Breed…..the row of competitors just went on….and on.  Gizmo was pulled in in top 6 so really pleased.  There were some very big and quality sheep there, lovely day at a really nice show.  […]

On Friday 11th of Aug we administered the Toxoplasmosis and Enzootic abortion vaccines.  I know many sheep owners don’t but after the heartache we went through last year it was a definite and without doubt action this year for us.  It must be said that the administering of this vaccine is not for the dithering, […]

On Thursday 10th Aug was Okehampton Show.  This was our first show and our sheep’s first show. On the Monday to Wednesday Georgie and I had a go at trimming.  This consisted of looking at photos on internet then going out and trimming bits off, then looking at more photos and repeating the process.  We […]

Really pleased to have been granted approval for on farm isolation facility.  This means that we can now show our sheep without having to go on total 6 day standstill. Under normal circumstances when livestock comes on to the farm we are then on standstill for 6 days meaning no livestock can move off the […]