9 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
Twiglet continues to be a bit of an annoying teenager …
Our little orphan is still doing great!
But still no sign of lambs from Torn Ear or Georgia:
11 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
Torn Ear has her twins! Both healthy.
13 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
After a couple of days in the pen the ewes are put out into a nursery field. Today when we visited the barn we found one ewe and two lambs out of the field and in the track. Shepherding one ewe and two lambs into a field isn’t that easy, the smaller the group, the more skittish they are, but on closer inspection it turned out to Torn Ear who was happy to follow us back into the field.
16 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
Today was just a day for scratching. Champion … itchy shoulder.
Baby Lamb. Itchy bum.
Introducing the salt lick to Twiglet. Not terribly impressed.
There are only a handful of ewes left to lamb in the main flock, Georgia is still keeping us waiting …
We do however have 3 orphans now who are being bottle fed.
Georgia takes a keen interest over the side of the pen.
And Torn Ear and her two lambs are doing great in the nursery field.
17 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
Arrived at the barn to find the cows in distress and as we walked around the barn, we discovered why, one of the calves had got out.
He was gently coaxed into a manageable spot and then picked up and carried back to the enclosure to be reunited with his mum.
The orphans looked snug tucked against the wall out of the wind.
20 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
4 ewes left to lamb and the orphans are moved to a field by the farmhouse.
22 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
The first real t-shirt day … spring feels a long time coming this year.
Still no lambs from Georgia.
28 April
🐑 🐑 🐑
Who knew a compost heap could be so much fun?
1 May
🐑 🐑 🐑
A visit to the main flock was very rewarding with lots of old friends coming over to say hi.
2 May
🐑 🐑 🐑
While feeding the Lsd flock we noticed a rabbit nest in the hay feeder, spot the eye!
Lovely to see the lambs from the main flock are so comfortable with us while mum just looks on.
3 May
🐑 🐑 🐑
Finally! Georgia has her twins.
They look fabulously healthy.
For more news from the farm, subscribe to the Stockwood Community Benefit Society newsletter here:
https://stockwoodcbs.org/news/
