A Random Day

It starts with making up the milk for the lambs

 I make up 4lt for the day, 1lt per lamb, It's stored in milk containers and kept in the porch which is nice and cool, they are on cold milk 3 feeds a day, 8am 2pm and 8pm

Its so much easier having it made up ready to dish out.

After a feed the bottles are washed 

and soaked in a bucket of sterilising fluid until the next feed.

In the mornings on sunny days the greenhouse and poly tunnel are opened up

 Its always exciting to see what has germinated, the broccoli are up

Cosmos is up 

 cutting up milk containers to make some more plant labels, 

easy to use and plenty of space to write and there free, you can never have enough plant labels, these are easy to pierce as well to tie onto plants

 All the peppers, chilies, melons and tomatoes are now potted on

 The windowsill is full

The table under the grow light is full,

another few weeks and they can all move out to the poly tunnel.

A trip to the vet to pick up medication for the lambs, 3 have lamb scour (the runs ) the vet said probably because they are out on grass, a few jabs should sort them out
 Talking of Lambs

some-one has lost there tail.
Nice tidy little bottom now.
On the way to town posted of the Oca's

to those who ordered them, still have some more message me if you are interested.

In the goat field at feed time

 there is always some-one who needs to check the feed bucket is empty

I saw Thelma making use of this today

 Its a large yard broom that Martin fixed up for the goats to rub against it saves them using the fences.

I collected together some slate 

 and some long sticks

In readiness for a garden project I have in mind

The day ended with a sit down in the late afternoon sunshine with Sol

 Sticky malt loaf and a cuppa was much needed

 we watched the Alpacas in the field while listening to bird song, 

reflecting on the day,

then headed indoors as the sun beings to set closing up the greenhouse and poly tunnel on the way

only the chooks to shut in and one last feed for the lambs

fire to light 

bringing us back to were we started.