Insights, guides, and stories from the Skyler-Fel highlands.
June 14, 2025
Keeping our flock healthy starts with strong pastures. We introduced a careful rotational grazing system that gives our sheep fresh grass, improves soil health, and allows our paddocks to recover naturally throughout the seasons.
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May 28, 2025
Getting lambs to peak weaning weight in the shortest possible time is both an art and a science. We share the exact creep feed formula and schedule we use on our Dorper lambs.
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May 10, 2025
This season we sent samples to two different wool testing labs. The differences in results and what they mean for how you price your wool were eye-opening.
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April 22, 2025
Peste des Petits Ruminants remains one of the biggest killers of sheep in Kenya. Here's the vaccination calendar and biosecurity measures that have kept our flock clean for six years.
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April 5, 2025
The first three months of sheep farming are the most critical and most farmers get the basics wrong. A breakdown of the curriculum from our smallholder mentorship programme.
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March 18, 2025
Water scarcity is the single biggest threat to highland farming in Kenya. We share our full water harvesting setup from gutters to underground tanks to livestock troughs.
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