Eleven
I noticed last week that Eleven had a lump on her neck. I watched it for a day, it grew. It felt like an abscess so I called our wonderful […]
Category Archives: shepherding
Dave
This is Dave He is an Anglo-nubian buck who has already fathered a few kids. He is hopefully going to be the baby-daddy for next year’s kids and thus is […]
Simmering Sea-monsters
On Sunday afternoon, after a hugely busy nine days on the campsite cooking pizzas, running the Blue Rabbit Cafe and doing egg collection Alfie and I went for a swim. […]
Special K
We found a lump on Special K’s neck last week. It was huge – the size of my fist. I suspected it was an abscess. I phoned the vet and […]
Best Bacon Ever
Yesterday i the cafe I started selling bacon, sausage and egg buns made from our own free range eggs and our free-range, rare breed, super happy pigs. The first person […]
Fraggle
Fraggle, the little orphan lamb from last year who was accidentally tupped by Kenny the jumping ram, had her baby on Monday evening. It was not an easy labour. I […]
Being Born
Being born is quite tiring I imagine. Helping out with the being born bit is also tiring, especially if all the ewes decide that the time to give birth this […]
Nevruz 2018
A somewhat belated 2018 Nevruz celebration – there has been a lot going on here and the blog has fallen behind – I will try and catch up although the […]
Last Dance
Yesterday was a glorious day and the baby goats spent it outdoors playing on the climbing objects and dancing. This was good, because as fate would have it, it was […]
Good Friends Get It Sorted
I remembered two important things yesterday: dog metacam is good for inflammation and pain relief in goats, if you can’t get to a vet; positive encouragement from a friend can […]
