Baa aaa ry (just kidding - BARRY) our first lamb at 4 days old. That's his mum, Abigail, just behind him, with 3 aunties getting in the act on the right
In the meantime, between all the rainy days, we have had fence posts dug in (five weeks ago - and it's still too wet to ram them in firmly) all around our house recreation/orchard area. We have managed to get up one small section of rails, with another big stack of palings ready and waiting (in the rain) for the weather to clear so we can use the skilsaw outside and slosh through the mud to nail on another section of house boundary fence.We have been lucky in that we ended up with 58 big bales of baleage, and we have sold all but 3, so that profit has been channelled back into fencing the house section off so we can get started late planting our orchard trees.
Bonnie and Bella, our two Dexter cows, are doing well. They are getting good break feed tucker on firm ground (sort of firm) determined by electric fencing. Bella is starting to show signs of being well in calf, but Bonnie is showing little at this stage. They continue to remain skittish and are also fed baleage every night - depending on how much green tucker they have been allowed that day.Sorry we've been a bit tardy of late in keeping the blog up to date. I have heaps more chapters to come - it just seems a little difficult to get time to get to the computer - all sorts of livestock problems keep urgently cropping up, but we promise to make much more of an effort.
Madge and Tansy sure don't mind the rain and cold and aren't complaining ...
