Many Hands make Light Work!

A long weekend...plenty of extra hands on deck.....

Time to muster up the merino lambs...

Lucky I am home to help!

Pen by pen, lamb by lamb we catch them all..

 and perform the operations.

Needles, earmarks, 

 and the extra operation for the boys!

Dad says I am very handy now, I make the jobs alot easier and just a bit faster.

My job is to put the ring on the applicator for the boys....

and wash up the ear markers to make sure they are clean for the next lamb. 

They keep me very busy, they go very fast.

I love helping on the farm.

Mum says I will sleep really well tonight because I have worked really HARD all day!

YEEE'HAAA!

Calf marking, time to round 'em up!

All the cows and calves are mustered up, bought to the yards and drafted up.

The cows are getting a needle while they are in the yards, to help protect them from some nasty diseases, the vet thinks this will stop them dying.....fingers crossed! They all had a needle about 4 months ago, but they need a booster!

The calves need to have a couple of operations done. They get an earmark just like the baby lambs. All the animals on our farm have the same earmark in their ear. So if they get lost on another farm, the farmer will know where they came from. They also get a needle, to protect them from diseases, they will need another needle when they get a little older. The boy calves have one extra operation to stop them growing into big bulls!

It is a very noisy job, cows are calling for their calves and calves are calling for their mums. When they are all back together it is quiet again, thank goodness.....they were giving me a headache!

There are only a couple of cows left to calve, we will have to do them next time they come to the yards.

OH....and I nearly forgot...there are five more at home we are feeding!