Home Farm Brayton is a working sheep farm and our lambing time is from the beginning of April. We have no cattle and so have no silage or manure smells to spoil your holiday. We also do not keep any stock inside during the winter so you won't need wellies round the farm!
There are currently four horses on the farm and we drive two dutch friesians in a pair which we compete with at various events.
The Golf course, fishing pond and the Lakeside Inn are all within 5 mins walk of the farmhouse or you can take your car on our private road.
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Easy-Care Sheep!
ASPATRIA farming partnership Barrie and Harry Ward have discovered the ultimate in labour-saving - sheep that “shear" themselves.
The father and son have the only flock of Easy Care sheep in Cumbria and say the results so far are fantastic.
Easy Care sheep have been around for 40 years, developed by a north Wales farmer, but never made it to Cumbria until now.
The Wards, who farm at Brayton, have 417 sheep. Instead of wool, the sheep have a fine hair and rather than being shorn, they moult and get rid of their unwanted coat in summer.
Because they are born with hair, newborn lambs are protected at birth so the death rate is a lot lower than among other sheep.
They do not need dipping either.
Harry said the crossbreed offered excellent meat yields and lambing ratios, but at a fraction of the effort.
The sheep are a cross between a Welsh Mountain and a Wiltshire Horn sheep.
“They don't have horns and they lose their own wool. They are a non-maintenance flock,” he said.
“We have the only flock in Cumbria but interest is growing .”
While this seems to be a breakthrough in technology, it appears that Easy Care sheep are a case of farmers getting back to basics.
Centuries ago, sheep did not naturally have huge fleeces, merely a winter coat which was shed in springtime. But farmers later began to breed sheep for wool because of its value.
In recent times, Harry said, wool had fallen to rock bottom prices as its production was uneconomical, but the demand for meat had risen.
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