Upper Kirkton Farm

29/03/2026

Lambing for this last batch kicked off last week and, I’ll be honest, it didn’t get off to the best start. That’s farming for you. Thankfully things have picked up, and now when you walk into the polytunnel you’re greeted by a full choir of hungry voices. The lambs give you their high‑pitched bleets, the ewes 🐑answer with their deeper “maaaas”, and everyone demands food like they haven’t eaten in weeks. The silence afterwards is absolute bliss.
Mostly twins so far, and then one of the Cheviots decided to show off and produced triplets — and big ones at that. Been a bit hectic the last few days with lambs coming thick and fast, and the shepherd is certainly feeling it. Sleep 😴has been more of a rumour than a reality — they always seem to prefer making their entrance in the small hours — and the nights have started to blur into one long round of checks, feeds, and straw‑topping. But when dawn breaks and you’re looking at a row of healthy lambs tucked in beside their mums, it somehow feels worth every bleary‑eyed hour. There is a picture of where some of the lambs now prefer to sleep with Mum watching over.

I also wanted to share a little moment with Miss Muscovy. She was born here on the farm — her mum was Mrs Muscovy and her dad was Elvis — and she’s the last Muscovy we have. She’s always been fiercely independent, flying in and out of the pen whenever it suited her, but always home for bedtime. Then one day the hens attacked her very badly around the eye (hens can be terrible bullies when they’re sorting out their “pecking order”), and suddenly she decided humans weren’t so bad after all and let me take care of her. Now she’ll even eat out of my hand… but only when she feels like it. I keep telling her to stand up for herself, but she just waddles away like a little old lady who’s had enough of everyone’s nonsense.

And here’s your fun fact of the day: Muscovy ducks don’t quack. The males make a low hissing sound, and the females do a soft little trill. When they’re happy or excited, they wag their tails just like dogs. And, surprisingly, they’re actually more closely related to geese than to the mallard‑type ducks most people know.

Life on the farm — never dull, always noisy, and full of characters.

08/03/2026

It’s been a wee wile since we’ve posted – turns out lambing season doesn’t run itself! We’ve finally wrapped up the first two batches and the last two ewes clearly wanted to end with a flourish – both produced triplets. 🐑🐑🐑 There have been ups and downs as we have lost some of the newborn lambs and some of the ewes; sadly all part of farming, though it never stops the shepherd muttering at the sky as if it might take requests.
All the pedigree girls are done and the commercials are up next. The shepherd might even get a tiny break to remember what sleep feels like. 😴

The weather has finally decided to behave, ☀️ so the ewes and lambs are getting out during the day, though they’re still tucked in at night – still a bit nippy for the wee ones.

And after snow, rain and fields that were starting to look more like paddy fields, we’ve finally managed to start ploughing. Progress at last. Yet another job added to the shepherd’s ever-growing collection of hats – at this rate he’ll need a walk-in wardrobe just for them.

Here’s a wee piece I read recently and thought I’d pass on: “white hens are better at food conversion than brown hens, therefore white eggs are technically greener for the environment – who knew. Just when you think you’ve got farming sussed, the hens throw in a plot twist. 🐔

11/01/2026

Lambing 2026 has started. 🐑
We had our first lamb sienna a Suffolk born on 23rd December.

We have been busy clearing snow, feeding sheep, lambing and defrosting taps constantly it seems 😂. Oh and of course going inside for a warm up.
Pictures below of the sheep following the tractor for feed, their not silly and follow the tracks.
Pic 2 - Sienna and her mum Stella.
Some of the blue du maine lambs and motherly love.

The snow was beautiful to look at but so glad it is finally thawing as just makes every job 10 times harder or longer to do.

Have you had snow with you? ⛄️ Show us your favourite photos of the snow, we'd love to see them 😊

26/12/2025

Merry Christmas to all, we hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

We are open as usual, so if you need eggs please pop in.

19/12/2025

Not had a chance to visit santa yet?
Need to head to the supermarket and get your weekly shop or some last minute presents. 🛍
Be sure to visit Asda Dyce this weekend for your shopping and to see santa 🎅
He will be there from 10am to 4pm Saturday 20th & sunday 21st!

It’s not time for Santa to put his feet up yet.
He is spending his time on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st at ASDA Dyce from 10.00 to 16.00 each day.
He will have his sleigh with him and will happily pose for photographs.
Why not pop along and meet him?

18/12/2025

If you live in dyce, be sure to look out for Santa this evening. Check the original post to see what streets he will be visiting 🎅

Another fantastic night in Dyce. Thanks to all who came out to see Santa last night. He was delighted to see you all.
One more night round the streets starting at Glenhome Avenue then on to Glen Drive, Avenue, Road, Gardens, Netherview Road then on to the Princess area.

26/10/2025

Although we have not posted in a while, life on the farm has still been busy. Jobs including selecting sheep for sale, taking the tups out from their lady sheep. Thankfully this year when we were taking the tups out it was a dry day unlike last year.
Other jobs have been ploughing and sowing winter wheat.
Drying barley
Loading hay and straw which we supply to Shetland.

Remember 8 months ago we were in full swing with the lambing, well one of the lambs born was named Sully, see video below of Sully now, he has fair grown and is some size. He greets the shepherd every morning this way.

07/09/2025

HARVEST 2025 ✅

Thankfully due to the nice weather continuing, Harvest 2025 is now complete but where has this nice weather gone to as it is now raining.

See Barley out checking the quality of bales and also enjoying walks around the fields.

Other jobs on the farm this week have consisted of worming sheep, it seems this was an eventful task due to the sheep not going where they should have. Everyone was frantically chasing after them. All sheep wormed and now back outside, this time they headed straight back to their field with no escapees.

On another note, if you visit us to buy eggs etc, we currently also have potatoes for sale. 🥔

17/08/2025

We've had wonderful weather over the last 2 weeks. 🌞

Last Saturday we attended Keith Show, ending the show season on a high winning any other breed champion with his shearling standinstones zulu, all sheep placed and came home with a prize!

On the Sunday, the shepherd shorn the rest of his sheep, tough work in this heat & that was just sitting watching 😂 mum was hard at working rolling the wool.

During the week the shepherd had a few days off (not sure he'd class it as that) but off he went to Lockerbie for the national show & sale of bleu du maine's. Catching up with fellow breeders, selling his stock and purchasing new for breeding. 🐑

But quickly back up the road to start the harvest with the boss which is going well 🙂

03/08/2025

You may wonder why we were closed for a few days. 🤔

The video below may give you a hint!

Both farmers were off the farm and we were all over in Ireland celebrating with the newly weds! 🇮🇪🍻 I think we all scrub up no bad!

Some of them are still in Ireland partying on while the main boss & mum are back on Scottish soil! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We are back open tomorrow Monday 4th August.

We do not own the rights for the music

01/08/2025

❗️Just a reminded we are Closed this weekend!❗️

Closed today Friday 1st August til Sunday 3rd August. We will reopen on Monday 4th August.

Sorry for any inconvenience.