Oh Man, Its Cold!!

Winter has arrived and dont we know it. The past couple of weeks has been simply shocking. Gale force winds, pelting rain, hail, snow. You name it, we've had it. And all the while, the ewes have been lambing. Poor buggers. Though I must say, there have only been a few losses which is really hard to believe. I am rearing only 3 lambs who were abandoned by their mothers. Though we still have about 400 ewes still to lamb including over 150 maiden ewes. The young ewes have been running with wiltshire, dorper and wiltipoll rams. It will be very interesting to see what their lambs are like and how they compare in weight at weaning to the merino/border leicester/poll dorset lambs.
We are half way through the milking season. The bulls have been running with the herd and are now back in their own paddocks. Things have been running smoothly except for when fellow work mates take holidays and relief milkers come in to fill in. Just a pain in the arse I reckon. Cant wait for my holidays which are still a while a way at Christmas, though I do have a month or more off. YAY!!
Nothing is happening with the dogs. Really dont have an appropriate area to train Josey, though she remains super keen to work. I am continually teaching her commands though, and luckily she is a quick learner. I feel that by leaving her until she was older has allowed her to develop into her own dog, and she is more willing to listen. And I must say she has such a completely different style of working to both Floss and Brynn. UK bloodlines showing through? Perhaps. I can see her out the office window, sitting in her pen, eyeing off the lambs that Im rearing. Oh wouldnt she love to get out and say hello!

Oh its winter isnt it.

Josey

Floss