Fencing, fencing, fencing...

One of the major jobs on the farm is to make the fences stock proof. We are slowly working our way around and getting this done. The Sifunda kids are being a great help with this and seem to be enjoying it. It is quite satisfying to see the long line of metres of fencing all looking neat and effective! The next big job to finish is putting in the water troughs so that once all the fields are fenced, each field has water.

Fences with holes in lead to wandering cattle and sheep! Early one morning this week, Andrew called me having only just left the house, to say we had some cattle on a road trip! So I nipped out and we put them back in their field. Couldn't see a hole in the fence. Mmmm? Later on that day, a lady very kindly called at the farm - our cows and Eddie the bull had broken out of their field again and wondered back down to the barn! Bless! So we put them in the field at the back of the barn and have had another look for a hole in the fence. We think we have found it now!! All good fun!

Last of the lambs...for now!

Well we have had a busy week. What fantastic weather! Followed by a bit of rain - all good grass growing ingredients! The stock are happy! We now only have a few ewes to left to lamb. We have a little group still in the shed who have feet issues and so we are keeping a close eye on them and they are doing well. As they lamb we give their feet a thorough check and bit of tlc just before we turn them out. We will do this again when we get them all in, in the near future. We have a couple of lambs who lost their mums and we are bottle feeding them 3 times a day. We did try and keep a few others, but they didn't all make it. I don't like that bit.

The ewes we put out to lamb outside have done really well and Mr and Mrs Fox have not been very successful which is good news for us! All the other older lambs are looking chubby and gorgeous and we just love to see them bounce about like nutcases, generally enjoying life!