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midweek Scotland outdoors podcast I'm Mark stephen thanks very much for downloading this

this has been a long hard winter in Scotland we had quite bad snows and winds towards the end of the winter and that's

effectively delayed the spring now that's not pleasant for anybody but it's been

particularly difficult for Scotland's farmers recently I went down to visit Lorraine

Lucia now Lorraine farms in Dumfries in Galloway. And she works a system called hefted flocks.

She's a hill sheep farmer.

And when a flock is hefted, they're not kept behind fences.

The left to roam the hill free.

They know which part of the hillside is theirs,

and they tend to stick to it, hence the name hefted.

It is a very skilled type of farming, but it's also extremely labour intensive.

And it's not without its difficulties.

We started off in Lorraine's kitchen in front of a scene that will be familiar to many.

This is a twin lamb that was born probably yesterday or the day before.

Its mother could well be a giam or a first-time lamber.

Tom and I have spent the best part of this afternoon trying to find a mother to take it,

but it's very hungry, so we've just just brought it in it's sitting in front of

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