Welcome to GLYNELWYN - a smallholding in South West Wales

Glynelwyn - Photos

 

Summer 2014

 

      

The lane still full of colour

 

      

 

             

Garden in bloom too

 

      

Middle White piglets weaned

 

      

Surprise Gotland/GFD lamb born in field

 

      

Brought inside and all safe and sound

 

Hay field looking good

 

      

Berkshire piglets have foung a new mate!

 

             

This robins nest with young tucked away at top of cupboard in workshop

 

             

 

      

 

      

Tour round part of the garden

 

      

Rhubarb doing well

 

      

Foxgloves now flowering in the lane

 

             

 

      

 

Our last fledgling robin

 

      

New arrival, 'Fern' a Berkshire gilt

 

      

Fieldmouse come to visit!

 

             

 

Beautiful crab salad dinner in the garden

 

             

Colourful grass seeds and incredible perfumed wild rose

 

      

Tash having a rest

 

             

 

             

Shearing being done at last!

 

      

Evening moon rising

 

             

Newly shorn sheep enjoying the sun

 

      

 

     

The rams prefer resting in the shade

 

             

Young fledgling Swallow joins pegs on the washing line!

 

      

 

      

First field cut

 

      

Happy shorn sheep with lambs

 

             

         Zwartble/Texel cross                                       Zwartble                                                     Gotland

 

Heather one of our Berkshire sows soon to farrow

 

      

Zwartble/Cross lambs

 

The goats go out to enjoy the sunshine

 

      

 

 

             

These goat kids having fun

 

             

Horses taking it easy in between grazing

 

      

Berkshire sow and piglet                                Middle White piglets 

 

             

First bales of hay come in

 

Tash admiring the view (of sheep!!)

 

             

A wonderful bake-off!

 

      

Garden blooms

 

 

             

Heather giving birth to her litter

 

      

First field baled and stacked

 

Fitz helping out on the internet

 

Zwartble ewe waiting to go out

 

New ducks have arrived

 

      

Berkshire litter looking cosy

 

             

                                       Group of Gotlands                                                               Greyface Dartmoor ram

 

             

 

             

 

Polytunnel now providing our veg.

 

New Anglo-Nubian goat

 

Spot the odd one out!

 

      

 

      

 

More garden blooms

 

             

 

Gooseberry Pie

 

Wild strawberries on breakfast cereal

 

      

Chicken and leek pie with home grown chicken

 

      

Greyface Dartmoor fleece

 

             

Glynelwyn from the lane

 

             

Garden colour

 

Anglo-Nubian goat kid

 

Berkshire piglets

 

      

New arrival - Zwartble ram

 

      

and more new additions to Zwartble flock

 

      

Unusual coloured Greyface Dartmoor lamb

 

      

 

      

Anglo-Nubian kid out with Mum for the first time

 

             

 

             

 

      

More garden colour .

 

Acrobatic crabs?!!

 

             

Cutting next hay field

 

.... and first turning

 

             

 

 

Baling and wrapping

 

      

 

      

Haylage and hay being stacked safely in the shed

 

Cardigan Show 2014

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Greyface Dartmoors at Cardigan Show

 

 

      

Home produced sausage and bacon                      Home reared Roast Pork      

 

Greyface Dartmoor ewe and lamb

 

      

Greyface Dartmoor/Ryeland lambs

 

'Thumbelina' Ryeland shearling

 

      

Zwartble ewe

 

      

 

      

Assorted sheep enjoying the sun

 

      

Zwartble and Greyface Dartmoor rams

 

Free range Sasso Meat Birds

 

             

 

      

Red Kite soaring overhead

 

             

 

             

 

             

Berkshire piglets out to play

 

             

Cloudy views

 

      

 

      

'Dylan' Greyface Dartmoor ram lamb

 

      

Greyface Dartmoor rams sheltering in the shade

 

      

Greyface Dartmoor youngsters and unusual coloured variety

 

      

 

      

 

      

More Greyface Dartmoor sheep

 

Zwartble rams

 

      

Anglo-Nubian goats out browsing

 

      

Colour in the garden

 

'Holly' our elderly Lab/Collie cross

 

Robin checking out our sign

 

At the duck pond

 

Lampeter Show 2014

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Greyface Dartmoors at Lampeter Show

 

 

      

Sunsets back this evening

 

      

Last field cut and first turn

 

      

Rowing up

 

Pembrokeshire Show 2014

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Greyface Dartmoors at Pembrokeshire Show

 

 

             

.... and baling the last field

 

      

All safely stacked

 

      

 

      

Goats having a feast on chopped branches

 

Time to start preparing winter fuel

 

      

Colour on the Preseli Hills

 

             

 

      

Our new Berkshire sow, 'Fern', has her first litter

 

             

This should be the last Swallow fledglings till next year

 

Masses of rosehips this year

 

      

             Dorset Downs                                    Gotland and Gotland Cross