There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven
Most of you know i am a pushover for squirrels but my friend in Australia can go one better. She rescues orphan kangaroos. This is one of them with her dog Winston he is an Australian cattle dog. Red admiral butterfly in Pembrokeshire. Lynne.
A Llama with its baby. Yorkshire Show. Taken at Yorkshire Show, take notice of the size of the cattles horns. Sea Gulls sitting waiting at Portsmouth. Elsie.
We haven’t shown the Sheep for a few days as the cable we used to show them, is also the cable for our Holiday Cottages that have live webcam images relayed to them. We are putting in a new cable over the next couple of days so that we can show the Sheep as we did before.
As you will see today we have taken Willow away from Lady, we hope this time it will work. Willow has been out with Gypsy during the day and stabled with Lady of a night. Willow has been trying to suckle Lady. It has been a bit of battle between them. Lady sometimes throwing out her hind legs threatening to give Willow a kick. Willow keeps persevering and manages to get a little milk until Lady decides to stop her.
We have put Willow and Gypsy in the stable that we have enlarged for the Mares when they have Foaled. Lady is in the next stable to them, in what was Woody’s old stable, and Emmi is in Lady’s stable. When we first changed them over Willow was stressing out a little, but nothing like the first time. Lady wasn’t bothered at at. She seemed more concerned about keeping Gypsy away from the stables parting wall. Willow seems to have settled now. She keeps going over to Lady’s stable to make sure that she is still there. We will keep to these stable arrangements for a couple of weeks. We will then try to put Willow and Gypsy into the area in the barn next to the Sheep.
We have put Emmi in Lady’s Stable so that she can settle in the Foaling stable, as her udder has started to get larger, a sign that her Foal is not far away. She is a young Mare so her udder will not get over large as Lady’s and Woody’s did, so it is important that we check her every day. The Foal is due within two to three weeks. As you know Mares can Foal early, and very late as Lady did last year. I will change the cameras over so that you can see the Sheep, Gypsy and Willow and Emmi. If I see that the Foaling is imminent, I will put it on the Forum.