This morning I woke to the sound of Sam the Sheep dog barking, peering out of three windows I saw nothing unusual, but through the forth window I discovered a mother ewe licking her newborn lamb, now there is only three ewes left to lamb.
We have eight, each cade lamb will consume one bag of powered milk until weaned, costing around £70 per cade lamb (not including injections, vets fees etc). This is the main reason behind Charlie endeavouring to keep these wee lambs with their mother ewes! A lambs' life is always better placed with the mother ewe, they miss out on so much with intervention.
As February's snowdrops bow, other flowers appear to bloom within the farmhouse garden.I enjoyed clear sunlight this morning; after a down pour of rain enhanced contrast of aesthetic.
It is untrue to claim creates never miss if they are removed from what is taken from them, they know and feel, there inherent worth.
Disparity is disparity, there are no excuses inflicting deprivation onto sentient beings; these cade lambs would have otherwise died, not existed if they had not been subjected to intervention; but even then I have reservations about long term / multi-generational consequences.
Poly tunnel this afternoon, the lambs disconnected the Wifi extender, knocking out both IPCams. It's a bit crowded in there at the moment, but severe weather outside could kill these lambs.Scottish blackface sheep scratches against a postTeeswater Tup lamb.Teeswater Ewe lamb.Charollais / Herdwick Ewe lambMoon this evening.
The eight cade lambs are now drinking six bottles of powdered milk per sitting; I filled and presented five, then returned to the farmhouse to make another bottle, as we only have five bottles to go round. I staggered up the paddock verge to the ewe lambs on the hillside, they were treated to a bucket of ewe nuts, weather is wild on the hillside, with no run off this slippery ground is sopping wet with inches rain water. Fortifying these farm animals is the purpose of this, Charlie's breeding programme, although a little extra cash wouldn't go amiss.
This evening I purchased a mountain bike from Facebook Market place. We travelled to Stirtches to collect the bike, stopping briefly at Morrisons before returning to Woodburn.
We have eight, each cade lamb will consume one bag of powered milk until weaned, costing around £70 per cade lamb (not including injections, vets fees etc). This is the main reason behind Charlie endeavouring to keep these wee lambs with their mother ewes! A lambs' life is always better placed with the mother ewe, they miss out on so much with intervention.
It is untrue to claim creates never miss if they are removed from what is taken from them, they know and feel, there inherent worth.
Disparity is disparity, there are no excuses inflicting deprivation onto sentient beings; these cade lambs would have otherwise died, not existed if they had not been subjected to intervention; but even then I have reservations about long term / multi-generational consequences.
The eight cade lambs are now drinking six bottles of powdered milk per sitting; I filled and presented five, then returned to the farmhouse to make another bottle, as we only have five bottles to go round. I staggered up the paddock verge to the ewe lambs on the hillside, they were treated to a bucket of ewe nuts, weather is wild on the hillside, with no run off this slippery ground is sopping wet with inches rain water. Fortifying these farm animals is the purpose of this, Charlie's breeding programme, although a little extra cash wouldn't go amiss.
This evening I purchased a mountain bike from Facebook Market place. We travelled to Stirtches to collect the bike, stopping briefly at Morrisons before returning to Woodburn.
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