Christmas has been and gone, with plenty of food and a little bit of drink, and an awful lot of cold weather. Its just getting colder and colder now and it makes life on the farm more difficult as most of the water troughs are frozen up and any grass there was is under snow or frozen solid. It is safe to say the ewes are currently eating us out of house and home! Each day over 100 gallons of water have to be carried by bucket to the cows and to the various fields of sheep.
The first batch of sheep were scanned on 28th December, and 14 are carrying triplets, so these have been separated to be given extra feed. Pixie, one of our older ewes and Rachel's favourite, was not in lamb so she has been chucked back in with Jarvis and if it works this time this will be lambs in June.
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