Today dawned a beautiful sunny day.
Spring is turning on all it's charm & the temperatures are perfect for short sleeves. Since today is a public holiday the household is relaxed with no schedules to adhere to, no alarms to wake up to & no places to go to! The temperature cajoles you outside and we spent a lazy breakfast (after milking & lamb feeding & all the other jobs that mark our mornings) outside.
Since the day was so beautiful & since we've found some fly blown ewes already (it is rather early in the season for that) Dave decided some sheepwork was in order.
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| 2014 lambs to the left ~ all else to the right |
While I finished my after breakfast jobs, Dave & the children brought all of the sheep up to the yards. By the time I arrived, after taking a short detour to open up the hen house, they had already begun drafting the sheep.
We then spent the morning moving sheep, treating sheep with a fly preventative (if you've ever seen a sheep with fly strike you'll understand why this is a MUST out here), treating ewes with flies (YUCK!) & wrangling the few unmarked lambs (we had a few born after we marked the other lambs). Oh & treating the broken leg of a silly lamb that decided it was a kangaroo & tried to jump the fence ~ unfortunately it got one leg stuck & subsequently broken.
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| Photo by Jud in ute |
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| Photo by Jud in ute |
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| Photo by Jud in ute |
And if you're wondering about the cows in the background...well they had decided that the coolest place to sleep was under the shearing shed. By the end of the morning I would have happily joined them. I now have my first case of sunburn for the season, but it was worth knowing that job is now done for summer!
It's always fun to work together as a family!
How are you spending your day?
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