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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Nothe Fort Weymouth. Sue.

Weymouth sea front viewed from the pier. Sue.

Portland Bill lighthouse Sue.

Monument on Portland Bill. Sue

View from Portland Bill. Sue

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page Starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page. Starting from the sixth one.

The first one is from Maddi who is trying to get me sued for copyright infringement. The reason I have put it up is that I have been known to do the same to people, from both Horses and Sheep. They don’t always think that it is funny.

One of the Portland Ewes has a very full udder. By the look of the udder it could well be in the next twenty four hours. Don’t hold you breath though, just in case I am wrong. I will leave the camera on and check on the Ewe before I turn in for the night.

Hello Mr Farmer, I hope you can use these photos, my brother took them last summer, the great tit flying to the bird box was in my mum

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There are five new photographs n the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs n the Photo page starting from the fourth one.

The first one is one of three sent in by Julia.

This is our favourite place Dartmouth in Devon. We have been going to South Devon for years. I can’t get enough of the place. Elsie.

Two more of the Moose from Maddie.

The picture of the Kingfisher was sent in by both Maddi and Elaine. I hope I don’t get done for copyright infringement.

I have not been showing the Sheep today, as the Lamb is not very well and we don’t expect that it will live. When I last went to check on the Sheep at about 10pm it was fine, but this morning it was very weak and laid out on its side. We had thought that it has been feeding properly. It is getting milk from the Ewe, but because it has a deformed mouth it is not getting as much as it should. I only noticed the Lambs mouth this morning when I was bottle feeding it. It perked up a bit after the bottle feed, but it is not looking good. There of course is a chance that as its mouth is deformed it has other problems.

It has only been the Portland’s that we have had problems with. All the other Sheep have been alright. Even the Portland Crosses that we have bred have been OK. We sent a few of the older Portland Ewes to Market last year and the remainder will go when they have Lambed. I would like to have ten Ewes on the Farm. I will make the numbers up with Jacobs. We have had a few of those before. They were very hardy and although they are worth very little, I do like the look of them.

We let Emmi and Gypsy out into the main Horse field early this afternoon. We put Emmi on a head collar to lead her out, and let Gypsy follow on her own. Gypsy stuck to Emmi like glue, no way was she going to loose sight of her. I was sure that she would have followed Emmi, but I didn’t want to put Gypsy on a lead as the only time Gypsy has had a head collar on was when she was loaded and unloaded onto the Horse Box, when she came to Denbury, she wasn’t very keen on it, and it wouldn’t have been a good experience for her, so we are taking every thing we do with Gypsy, very carefully. She is getting friendly with us and we don’t wont to frighten her. It didn’t take them long to decide hooray we are free once we had got them into the field, they stuck together racing, kicking out and bucking around the field. I hope some of you managed to see them on the webcam. We will try to let Arnie out with them tomorrow when we let them out.

I doesn’t look as if we are have a lot of luck with the Vaseline and Cayenne Pepper that we are putting on Lady’s udder, to stop Willow from getting milk. A couple of times last night before we stopped watching her we could see that she would not feed, but looking at the recording that we did through the night, she did take a couple of feeds. The taste of the concoction must wear off after a while. It is also possible that she had a feed about 6.30pm tonight, only a couple of hours after we put the concoction on again on Lady’s teats. If she did we are going to have to look at other ways of stopping her feeding.

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There is a new posting on the Ghost cam page…

There is a new posting on the Ghost cam page.

Today you may have seen three of the Portland sheep on camera two fighting. Two of them are Ram lambs that were born last year, they are being a bit brave with the flock Ram, trying to take over, but he is a bit to cute and strong, even with two of them trying it on. They are bit to young at the moment. The older ram is getting a bit old now, he is what is known as broken mouthed, meaning that he is loosing a few teeth, as time goes on he will not be able to eat as well as he should, he will then start to loose a little condition, that is when the younger Rams will have their chance.

A new lamb was born last night, to one of the cross breed sheep. It was a bit of a surprise, as it was brown and the Ewe is white, the father, is the white Portland Ram, so the colour is a throw back from the Ewes cross breeding.

The farm next to ours have their Ewes and lambs out in the fields, it is good size flock that would need a lot of work throughout the year. It looks like most of the Ewes have twin lambs. As the lambs get older they tend to to get into little groups, playing and chasing around the field, good to watch.

A couple of days ago an entry from the US, on the forum said that that one of the Badger was still limping. As I am writing this entry I am changing between camera one and two, there are ten Badgers feeding, six on camera one and four on two, but I have not seen the one who is limping, they all seem fine.

When we went on our walk down the valley today, with Tass and Ky, we went further than the cameras view, disturbing the three deer that have been feeding on the valley camera of a nighttime. Looking at their hoof prints, there is a lot of activity. Because of the distance we would need to run the electricity wire, it would be very difficult to get a camera set up, but it would be an interesting site, I will look into it tomorrow.

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The twin lambs are doing very well today The Ewe…

The twin lambs are doing very well today, The Ewe is eating the grass and is looking a lot brighter, even calling out for the lambs, when she cant see them. The Ewe lamb has been getting a little milk from the Ewe with one lamb, she will creep up to the Ewe whilst her lamb is feeding, attaching herself onto the spare teat. It does not take the Ewe to long to realise what is going on, and she butts the lamb away, but a least it has been getting a little feed that otherwise she would not have got.

When ever we take Tass and Ky for a walk down the valley, we inevitably come in view of the sheep, more often on the other side of a stream and hedgerow and as far as 300m to 400m away. Without fail, in fear they will run to make a tight flock. It was caused last year, a little while after we got the sheep, when a friend rode through the farm on her horse, she always had in tow three or four dogs. She did not realise one of her dogs had not followed her off the farm and was attacking the sheep, fortunately I had the valley camera on, in a flash across the camera monitor I could see the dog was chasing one of the Portland sheep, I was lucky to have seen it. It took several minute to get to were the attack was happening, seeing me the dog ran off. One of the sheep was just getting up after the attack and ran back to the flock, a Portland was lying as if dead, as I got to it, it got up and ran off in panic to the wood, with blood on its fleece. It took us four hours to find it, it had tucked itself under a fallen tree in the wood, we were taking it back to the farm to treat the wounds when we saw another injured Ewe in the hedgerow, she had obviously been there for the four hours and was in a sorry state.

We had to treat the Ewes for many weeks, but unfortunately the Portland died, the crossbreed lived, she is a very friendly Ewe, but it has taken many months for her to get back to her old self. What I cant understand is that our German Shepperd’s look very fox like, the sheep will sit chewing the cud, spread over a large area in the middle of the night, with Fox walking within feet of them, and they don’t take a blind bit of notice. They see the dogs and they panic.

The annual frog mating period is just about finishing, for the past few nights our drive, that is about 300m long has been full of many hundreds of frogs making their way to the lake to spawn, there are so many on the drive, that to get in our out of the farm we have to walk in front of the car moving the frogs to the side, it can take as long as ten minutes for a minute journey. How many are in the area making the pilgrimage I cant imagine. For the amount of frogs going to the lake, we get very few tadpoles.