Mrs Downs Dairy, October 13

John has kept back a number of gimmers from this year's lambs as flock replacements. H does not want to run the gimmers with the main flock, in case the same tup that fathered them accidentally serves them.

For this reason we went off to market with high hopes of buying a young tup who would not only serve the gimmers, but, once he had worked out his apprenticeship, supports the other tups serving the main flock.