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No-shear, forage-fed, low-input: EasyCare system delivers for Aberdeenshire shepherd

Amy Jo Reid runs two EasyCare flocks on low-input systems, one of which is her own and the other is managed on a contract arrangement

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No-shear, forage-fed, low-input: EasyCare system delivers for Aberdeenshire shepherd

Amy Jo Reid's own flock of 180 EasyCare ewes is kept on various short-term grass lets, while the contract flock grazes at home near Inverurie, where she has lived, since 2022, in the tied house that comes...

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