Lambing is due to start on Thursday, so there are very few to be affected by the weather as yet, but the cows have well and truly started. Six new ones overnight yesterday morning, so hopefully they are all surviving. Calves do not cope with the wet and cold as well as lambs, so even though there is shelter for them all (providing Mum decides she will give birth in it) their larger body mass means they get hypothermia faster. Fingers crossed for sunshine as predicted for tomorrow, and that the "Boss" is not too grumpy when he comes in from his daily check today. He is picking up 2 or 3 cast ewes daily at the moment.
The "Boss" is also wondering why we have quite a few white faced calves in the Spur mob. We put orange dot tags into the ears of the cows that we put to the Hereford bull ( and these are not on the Spur), which are put into separate mobs for calving and mating, and we know the 2 Hereford bulls we put out did not go a wandering at the beginning of mating (they were quite happy with their own 35 cows each thank you). Soooo it must have been the neighbour's Hereford jumping the fence for a little extra sport just before we mustered the cows and calves off the Spur prior to calf marking and we hadn't realised he had been in - sneaky!
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