Sheep Husbandry, Sheep Care, Show Preparation for sheep

Champion Coloured Ryeland Burwarton showOur lambing courses were a great success and we had a fun bunch of people attending and fantastic feedback from them.

The time of year is around the corner for those interested in purchasing sheep so need to learn more about the intricacices of choosing your sheep as well as looking afer them.  Our courses will cover this and be made bespoke to  your requirements.

Show Preparation of sheep - the summer show scene will soon be upon us and if you want to learn how to choose the prizewinners, prepare them to look their best for the show ring, how to show and ring etiquette, etc.  

If any of these tick your box, please get in touch to book a course.  Please get in touch if you have any questions or wish to book a slot.   dsg.oakberrow@gmail.com  or 07971675162

Ryeland National Champion

LAMBING COURSES 2022 - DATES ANNOUNCED

Student doing first lambing

Delighted to announce, that our LAMBING COURSES are back, obviously dependent on COVID Regulations.

The girls and boys have done us proud with 31 set of twins, 15 singles and one set of triplets due from end of January.  We are lambing the following breeds - Ryelands, Coloured Ryelands, Blue Texels and Greyface Dartmoor.

It is an exciting time when the lambs are born.

The LAMBING COURSES will commence from 4 February until the end of the month.  We do have a few late lambers which are due in March.

For the courses we limit the number of attendees to a maximum of 4 per day and the cost includes lunch, refreshments and a pack to take home with you.  Cost £95 per person.  We are happy to make the course bespoke to your requirements.  

If interested, please book as soon as possible - dsg.oakberrow@gmail.com or 07971675162.  Any questions, feel free to contact us.

WHAT A BRILLIANT LAMBING WE HAD 2021

selection of lambs

We were really pleased with the lambs that were born at Oakberrow this year -

Ryelands, Coloured Ryelands, Greyface Dartmoors and our new breed the Blue Texels.

As such it has been difficult to choose those that we are going to run on and those for sale.  So after much deliberation we have for sale some excellent breed type Ryeland Ram lambs and ewe lambs, 3 coloured ewe lambs and 1 well grown ram lamb.  Sorry all Greyface Dartmoor lambs are sold, but we do have two shearling rams for sale.

Blue Texels - we were delighted with our first ever Blue Texel Lambs to be born at Oakberrow and have a small selection of quality ram lambs available.

If interested in learning more about these, please get in touch - dsg.oakberrow@gmail.com

LOOKING FORWARD TO 2021 EXCITING TIMES WITH PUPS AND LAMBS

SloaneJanuary is going to be a very busy time for us here at Oakberrow.  Our sheep start lambing 18 January and also our beautiful Hungarian Wirehaired Vizsla bitch, Sloane will be having her first litter on 21 January. UPDATE 25 JAN. ALL PUPPIES SPOKEN FOR.

NEW to Oakberrow are our flock of Blue Texels which Steve and I are very excited about.  The girls will start lambing February/March time to our handsome ram Buckenhill Denzel who has excellent breeding with Sams and Boys breeding.  Our ewes have been purchased from some of the top flocks - Misereden, Morridge, Littlebrook and Betws Blues.

The Ryeland girls are in lamb to Cagedale Windfall, Dolwen Yohan and also Strata ZigZag.  The Coloured Ryelands have gone to Bachebrook Willy Wonka, Rimini Yoda, Brambles Zebedee.  

The Greyface Dartmoors have gone to our handsome Swallows 1 who produced quality lambs last year.

So fingers crossed for all to go well and definitely something to look forward to in these uncertain times.  Take care and keep safe.  

If anyone requires more information, then do get in touch with either Steve or myself.

GUNDOG TRAINING AT OAKBERROW

Myself and Steve have trained dogs, in particular gundogs, for over 40 years and have great experience in this field.  

All the dogs at Oakberrow work out in the shooting field in the season picking up.  

This is a great time of year to get that training done before the shooting season, or if you just want to have an obedient dog so you can enjoy taking them walks, then come along to Oakberrow.

So we would cover walking on a lead (without pulling), basic obedience and then if you did want to learn about training your dog for the shooting field we can cover that as well.  As we have mostly HPR breeds here then covering all the skills that tthese dogs have can be taught here.  

Basically we would be teaching you.  If interested, please do get in touch - 07971675162 or email dsg.oakberrow@gmail.com