Lambing Disasters!

Lambing is nearly finished. Dad and PopPop have certainly had alot of headaches.

It seems the ewes wanted to do nothing but DIE.

In the beginning the ewes had lambing sickness and quite a few died. 

It seemed nothing they did worked. Eventually this problem solved itself and THEN..

WORMS and a bad one, called Barbers Pole...it takes all the blood from the sheep and then they die!

"Its OK girl...we will look after your baby. I am afraid you are too sick and you might die!"

 Only one way to fix it with medicine. 

It is difficult to drench the ewes with medicine while they are still lambing, Dad had to make yards in the paddock so the ewes did not have to walk far and they could get straight back with their lambs.

Maybe the ewes are missing me, last year Mum and I checked them everyday. 

This year I have to be at school. 

Each day when I come home on the bus I wonder whether Dad will have a surprise for me.....a baby lamb?

SO FAR Dad has had 6 surprises for me! 

WOW!

Wiggly Worms

Have you seen our worm farm?

For animals so small they sure do eat alot!

On the menu today......from the kitchen...

green lettuce leaves... I have to tear it all up for them.

Look at them all, healthy looking creatures.



The worms give me fertiliser for my vegetable patch.

Sometimes I get buckets and buckets.



The worms have to share the kitchen scraps with the chooks, sometimes there is barely enough to go around.

Because I never leave much on my dinner plate!

I have 5 new chooks, 4 Silver Laced Wyandottes and one Gold Laced.

Four of them look alike so it was very hard to name them.

So we have called them Silky 1, Silky 2, Silky 3, Silky 4 and Rose, she is the gold laced one.

We are not getting any eggs because all the old chooks are loosing their feathers and the young ones have not started laying yet.

It will be springtime before the egg supply really picks up again!



OHhhh POO!

WARNING! WARNING!

The merino lambs have dirty bottoms......what does this mean?

The lambs are living in a lovely paddock of grass, but they are not really looking as good as they should. A few have dirty bottoms, maybe just maybe they have worms...they were all given medicine about 2 months ago, but maybe the worms are BACK! Alot of worms in the lambs will stop them growing well and if they get heaps they can kill them.

Mum and Dad have collected poo samples from the lambs. They muster the lambs into a group and wait for them to poo, then they collect 10 samples.

The samples are bottled and bagged up. We will take them the post office, then the mailman will take them to a science lab where they will look through a microscope to see if and what worm eggs are in the poo.

Maybe they will need more medicine. We will have to wait and see?

We have had more rain, so the grass is still green.The weatherman says there will be rain everyday this week.

Last night after I had gone to bed Dad saw the prettiest pink sky at sunset.

I wish I was up to see it!