Sheepdonotsendemails: The journey started today.

At 2pm this Friday, 7 November 2025, we welcomed our Lacaune and Romney mix ewe lambs to Whitehouse Farm Oast. These lovely sheep, bred by Joanna and Rob of Kaiapoi Farm in Hertfordshire are the founding mothers of our new milk and cheese making venture, and we anticipate an exciting future together! Our local farmer, William Clark, delivered them and had them doing the hop, skip, jump out to their new home in no time.

Who are you?

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Let's go

Lots of new fencing, heavy duty machines and rain has left a bit of mud bath in the Hop Field Meadow, so we encouraged the lambs round to Lower Birches Field. Amazingly they seemed to know where to go and my nightmare visions of chasing them down Sham Farm Road towards the A26 happily did not come true today at least!

Hope the grass looks greener on the other side?

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Relaxing at last and having a well earned ruminate

The ewe lambs are only 8 months old right now, so they have a year at their new home before we start breeding them. Time for us all to get to know each other.

Lottie, our beloved terrier cross will have to come to terms with the new members of the family. For the time being she can rest assured there is still plenty time for her daily walks in the woods.