No more exams!

My exams have finally finished, and I now have eleven weeks off before going back to school for A-levels in September. I plan to spend the summer training my sheep dog, Nan and trying to get my sheep ready for showing that I'm planning to take part in in September.
I will be taking Nan to Nursery Trials this year, if anyone has done this before and know of any good ones to go to please comment below and let me know.
There will also be shearing taking place soon for all of the sheep, hopefully next week. Shearing will be followed by hay making, with general day to day farm work in between all of that.
Between all of these events I will be blogging a series of posts on, as yet, an undecided topic. Please leave ideas in the comments section or on twitter etc and I will choose the best idea and begin as soon as possible.
Today was the NSA sheep South West event, sadly I couldn't make it due to my exam this morning but if anybody did go I would love to hear about it and see how the day went so please get in touch if you went along to that.
As sheep farmers we will all be on the lookout for fly-strike at this time of year, especially with the recent warm weather. This time of year is crucial to the sheep, just before shearing for most people and yet the weather is hot and the flies that cause it are common. It can also be hard to treat and medicate the sheep correctly if you are planning on selling the fleeces after shearing.
The British Wool Marketing Board has predicted that wool prices will rise once again this year, and most will stay above £1 a kilogram. This is a great improvement on previous years and will affect many sheep farmers in a positive way. If you are interesting in spinning/crafting with sheep wool and would like to buy some privately please get in touch as we may have Jacob as well as Oxford Down wool for sale, both of which are high quality fleeces great for crafts.
I hope you're all looking forward to a great summer, if you would like to see anything else on my blog or have any ideas for a 'future friday' post, or have any questions about anything I post on here please leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Instagram and Summer

I now have a new instagram page, wiltshireshepherdess. Please if you have instagram go and follow my page for regular photo updates of everything you see on here.
Please use the comments section below, twitter, email or instagram to get hold of me and let me know what you would like to see covered on this blog. Anything farm related I will try my best to cover either in one post or a series of posts.
The next big thing for the sheep will be shearing now that summer is here, I will cover that on here and will also post anything else people want me to about summer or sheep in general.
Summer is finally here and my exams finish tomorrow so there will be much more regular posts on here for you to enjoy as well as some new series of posts that have been requested.