Busy!

Afternoon! Been a busy few days - the boys finally finished sorting out the white fluffys and Farmer Head was showing his age by complaining about muscles he had forgotten he had! The egg numbers are steadily rising - 40 the other day! Last night one of our beautiful Hereford Cows unfortunately appeared to be calving rather early and having gone out a couple of times during the night to check she is ok, we brought her in this morning and she has lost her calf which is a great shame. She is fine now, after a bit of tlc. Although pelting rain does not help cheer anyone up, nevermind the poor cows! Digby doesn't mind though....all the more mud for him to get covered in on our walks! This afternoon's project is moving the cattle handling down the road so that we can PD (pregnancy diagnose) the cows (ie to see if Eddy the bull is earning his keep!!) which is first thing tomorrow morning. For those of you who don't know what cattle handling equipment is - for us it is a lot of heavy metal high sided pieces of fence, with gates and a thing called a cattle crush - which is not as bad as it sounds - it just encloses the cow in a small gated section so that they can't hurt themselves while we look after them.

Today I had the pleasure of the traditional farmhouse kitchen experience - a fellow farming friend turned up for a cup of tea (putting off feeding his cows in the glorious rain!) and we put the world to rights. Marvellous! Contrary to popular belief - this is a rare treat not an everyday occurrence! Unfortunately there was no cake - that had been demolished at breakfast....!