Where has the week gone. No idea. Good Friday and i had to work.
Moved cows off the top field so it can start growing for hay. So horses are now on the track which i finished putting up last weekend. No way i could keep them on rotation with the cows in the bottom field. Billy would have a field day chasing new born lambs. He got loose last week and instead of running up the field to me as i was calling him. He came so far up, saw the rams and took off chasing them. Fortunately they ducked under the single strand of electric fence out of his way. He is such a sod ith the sheep. They are a game to him.
Finished lambing yesterday. Was 3 weeks, not the 2 i thought is was going to be but even so its all over for another year. No stray june lambings to deal with this year. 20 lambs in total so percentage is a little bit down. A predominance of males too. Was the same last year. But i suppose its evenning up, after a number of years of having more girls.
Today i have just taken delivery of a bull on hire. Would have like one before so we could go back to Autumn calving but there seems to be a shortage of hire bulls currently. Calves are being dehorned on Sunday and next Friday the vet is coming to castrate the two little boys born last December. So all go.
Moved cows off the top field so it can start growing for hay. So horses are now on the track which i finished putting up last weekend. No way i could keep them on rotation with the cows in the bottom field. Billy would have a field day chasing new born lambs. He got loose last week and instead of running up the field to me as i was calling him. He came so far up, saw the rams and took off chasing them. Fortunately they ducked under the single strand of electric fence out of his way. He is such a sod ith the sheep. They are a game to him.
Finished lambing yesterday. Was 3 weeks, not the 2 i thought is was going to be but even so its all over for another year. No stray june lambings to deal with this year. 20 lambs in total so percentage is a little bit down. A predominance of males too. Was the same last year. But i suppose its evenning up, after a number of years of having more girls.
Today i have just taken delivery of a bull on hire. Would have like one before so we could go back to Autumn calving but there seems to be a shortage of hire bulls currently. Calves are being dehorned on Sunday and next Friday the vet is coming to castrate the two little boys born last December. So all go.