A Very Wet Weekend

A week since the last post and quite a lot has happened.

We had a bit of a scare at the beginning of the week when our black lamb who to date had been the most boisterous and greedy went off his food and cowered at the back of the shelter. Some research pointed to bloat, a condition often fatal to young lambs. The most common remedy seemed to be 40ml of cooking oil which surprisingly he seemed to enjoy and also seemed to fix him!

The rain continued through the week and the field became extremely muddy resulting in the car getting stuck on Friday (thank you to the RAC for towing out) and a lake forming outside the field.

Saturday saw more wind and rain but a few things needed attending to despite the weather. We moved the bigger lambs shelter and trough out into the main field and closed off their smaller paddock to let it recover ready for the little ones moving in.


We also took the decision to decrease milk for the small ones to once a day so extended their pen a little so they have plenty of grass to feed on. We did also notice another bloated lamb - the one that took over as most greedy after the black one!) but some cooking oil seemed to do the trick again. Finally, I had the fairly grim job of mucking out the little ones shed - they did look much happier with dry, warm and clean straw.

This week sees us cutting right back to one milk feed a day for the little ones, worming for the big ones and hopefully finishing up some fencing to give the big lambs a much bigger space to roam in.

There is also talk of more lambs......

Some recent photos and a video below.