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.