The laggards are lame with scald. The bane of all shepherds
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2020-05-23

Scald the bane of all shepherds, as it can turn a sound sheep into a cripple in only hours. Slowly I’m breeding those blood lines out of my flock, that show a weakness towards getting scald. In the beginning as a rare breed this was hard to do. Now most of my flock are hardy against scald. So only a few old ladies now get it.


Zwartbles Ireland is a small company run from a farm in County Kilkenny in Ireland. We sell, Zwartbles sheep, Zwartbles blankets and yarn made from the sheep, and calendars featuring the Cats Shepherd Bodacious and Inca the World's Smallest Sheepdog.