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In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'We're freeze-branding sheep in order to avert more thefts'

A couple of weeks ago we lambed our Leicesters and were in a busy period of calving, the sun was shining and it really felt like spring. Lambs were starting to fill the fields further down the valley.

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In your field: Thomas Carrick - 'We're freeze-branding sheep in order to avert more thefts'

A couple of weeks ago we lambed our Leicesters and were in a busy period of calving, the sun was shining and it really felt like spring. Lambs were starting to fill the fields further down the valley....

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