Evenings are getting darker and colder. It’s always a rush to check and feed everyone before it’s too late.
We go through quite a few feed bags every week. The feed is stored in the barn and it’s a long trip to the alpaca field. The worst part is that the silvernoses live in the wellfield. They love attention and are greedy. Every trip for a bag of feed is a wooly attack. There are 7 of them and several other old pet lambs or poorly sheep but it feels like about 40 of them. When they swarm around me I get swept along and I’m lucky to stay on my feet. They are cute though so they get away with it.
It has been surprisingly dry too so we are back to carrying water for the big alpaca field. That is a time consuming, but essential job.
The 3rd alpaca field was finished this week. We have 7 crias and they will need to be weaned in the next month or so, so there will be updates on that shortly.
Sheep love to escape and this week several of them decided to for a trip unfortunately. So even though one lot of fencing is finished we will need to work in other areas! They will always find a way 🤦♀️
This week I attended a Zoom session to help with my research around lambing experiences that we are considering offering in April if there is interest from the public.
Another egg-hideaway was discovered by Josh which is good news. It means more hens are laying. It’s pleasing that the hens are settling in enough to lay even through the Winter.
Storm Arwen came on Friday night and Saturday morning. There were lots of images on social media about damaged roofs and downed trees. We were grateful to find everything at Garth Hall where it should be and didn’t see any damage. As we were leaving, I noticed 2 workmen chopping up a fallen tree that had damaged one of the original dry stone boundary walls. Luckily no animals were hurt and we can keep them away until its repaired. The wall and fence can be repaired, just glad no-one was hurt.
Look out for more next week!
