May time jobs

May is one of the most beautiful times of the year to visit Orkney, with the summer weather at its best!

May is also lambing time, so why not join us and give us a hand with the new born lambs (you can help lamb, feed the orphan lambs or just be a shepherd for the day.) .

Daffy, Garath and Indi are 3 very tame ducks that live near the cottage, all the other ducks, and chickens live on the croft, they laze around their pond most of the day, they will wander down to the cottage to see if you have any scraps of food for them.Eggs are always in the incubator, some hatching some just ready to hatch come and watch us candle the eggs, we do this to check that the babies inside are growing.

Well worth a look, this is something that many people never get the chance to see,Domino is the ferret who lazes around his cage keeping an eye on whats going on. Come and meet our little pet North Ronaldsay lambs and sheep, they like to eat seaweed.May and Ernie are our little pet lambs who love lots of cuddles and last but not least

Puzzle the very small round shetland pony,along with her friends Diamond the black shetland pony and her baby Bertie Basset a lovely little colt foal who likes to greet everyone who comes to stay at the cottage.

We welcome people to come on the morning or evening rounds of feeding and checking all the animals and collecting eggs that have been freshly laid.