My Culture
"SHEEP FARMING IN DROMARA"
by Ruth (8)

My culture and traditions In the ice age the ice created the hills for the sheep to graze on, These hills around Dromara [Hill or ridge of heifers] are called the drumlins. As most people know N.I. is quite a cold country so it rains a lot. This provides us with plenty of grass to feed mainly sheep and cattle. The sheep get sheared in May and the fleeces are taken to Muckamore/ Antrim and are used for wooly jumpers,coats etc. Farmers drench/ dose the sheep to stop disease from spreading. The lambing time is from March to May and the lambs are born in ones ,twos or threes. The shepherd/farmers have a symbol of care. - a shepherd holding two lambs. Examples of what the sheep eat are meal grass etc. Sheep drink water and milk. A friendly person called Roland Lindsey has collected a very strange sheep's skull.