No photos this weekend, all that there is really to photograph is masses of mud, and pregnant ewes. After losing the lamb the other week, we decided to vacinate the lambs with 5-in-1. Since the protection is passed on to new lambs if the mother has been vaccinated within a month, we checked the ewes and wee going to hold out vaccinating them until they bag up and relax in the back quarters (see last years photos!). Two of the big ewes had already bagged up, the black faced girl was looking very "relaxed" and ready. We've moved them all into a paddock we've been keeping aside for lambing, hopefully this year we'll get 7 lambs, 2 from each of the big girls and 1 from devilspawn (who is pregnant to winston, she's also bagged up and is starting to look more ready. We intend putting the lambs and ewes into the newly sown paddock once things dry up a little bit, just to top the grass to make it grow a bit stronger. But before we do that, we're going to need to protect a few trees we planted this weekend. We've put in several scarlet oaks, down either side of the race to make a kind of avenue. also behind the large mound we plant some silver birch (which should shoot away pretty well). Next weekend, hoefully, we'll we planting some plane trees to offset the oaks, and and bunch of poplars to provide shelter.
Then we've got to build the goat proof tree protectors.
It now looks like my trip to the UK has been put off to the end of october, hopefully, things will warm up and dry out in time for me to sow the paddocks before I go.
Yesterday(Tuesday) we had some guys out trying to install broadband for us, we have to go with a satalite system, and it ended up having to go on the end of the barn, so that means 80m of cabling to be dug into the ground! So it's not there yet...
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