Kev's rescue mission

Kev had noticed that a tawny owl had been nesting in our bottom shed and on Thursday evening, he was working in the bottom yard when he noticed an owlet sat on the ground. A quick telephone call to a local sanctuary confirmed that it would most likely perish if not put back in the nest box - it had obviously tried to fly a little too soon!

All seems well and mum seems to have come back to the box too, so its just fingers crossed now.

The great escape

On a happier note, the six pet lambs were turned out last week having been weaned off milk, and they loved the freedom.

Jazz and her boys, however, have joined the larger group of sheep in the field across the road, so she is back with her other Jacob friends.

Sad news

After looking like she was going to come through all her various problems, sadly this morning little Splinty had died - it was sudden and unexpected, as she had not looked ill. However, Splinty was a victim of nature, as she was conceived during last year's terrible floods when all the sheep had to go in together, and Splinty was one of a couple of lambs that were in-bred due to the Mums running with their own father, Charlie the tup, for a few days. This was probably why she had her leg problems, and was most likely why something caused her to just die. It was a very sad moment, for me and for her mum Cassie. RIP Splinty.

An update on Splinty

Splinty has done really well and has been out in the back field with Rock and Roll and both Mums for a couple of weeks now. She wore the splints for about two and a half weeks, and when she first went outside we would shut her and Cassie in at night in a little corner that is fenced off so that she had to rest a little, and gradually her legs got stronger and straighter. As you can see from the photos, she looks super, as do Rock and Roll!

Samson

Sooty lambed on Tuesday evening - she has had a cracking little tup lamb and we have called him Samson. She is very proud of him and very protective when the bigger lambs try to have a closer look at him.

I survived!

Both the One Day Event and Lambing!

Lambing was completed (if you don't count Sooty who should be able to manage herself I hope) last Saturday - the final mule had to have a lot of help as the lamb was quite big and had twisted a little bit in its attempts to be born, but all's well that ends well.
Both horses were stars at the One Day Event, especially Fizz who had the best dressage score of the day. They both jumped double clear and were second in their respective classes. It wont be long before Rachel can ride again so she will be stealing him back I guess. Never mind, I get to take him out once more on Sunday at a pony club one day event.