Signpost: Successful lambing, soil management, and feed strategies

Farmer Michael Forde from Corrandulla, Co Galway, puts some of the sheep into his purpose-built foot bath.  Picture: Ray Ryan

Since writing my first article a month ago, a lot has changed on farm. This spring is a completely different spring than that of 2025, that’s for sure.

Lambing has gone quite well here on the home farm. We had a total of 180 to lamb this spring. All 20 hoggets have lambed and there are just 20 ewes left to lamb out of the 160.