Shepherds' work in Peeblesshire.
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Original Track ID
SA1969.188.A2
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Summary
Shepherds' work in Peeblesshire.
Andrew Gibson walked 12-15 miles a day as a herd if he had a fair-sized hirsel [flock] of about thirty score sheep. He went round them twice: the sheep lay on the high ground, where it was drier, at night, and were moved to low ground during the day, so that they didn't graze the same area all the time.
The fat stock were bought by individual butchers, as well as by the large meat buyers who came to Biggar and Symington. At the start of his herding life, in 1906, Andrew met two herds with a flock of 600 wether lambs that they had driven on foot from Heriot over Blackhope to Eddleston Station, and he took them over the Meldons and up Lyne Water and put them onto rape at Wester Happrew. After five or six weeks, those that were ready were walked fifteen miles to market at Symington.
Item Subject/Person
Gibson, Andrew
Item Location
County - Peeblesshire
Village/Place - Pentland Hills
Language
Scots
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Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good