Shearer came visiting this morning ...

Today is not a full shearing but crutching meaning shaving around the old fellas and "Fannies"and tummies, and maybe a little around their faces. Trimming hooves if needed.

Drenching ... a squirt of worming medicine in their mouths and waiting for them to swallow it all down. Then a jab with a vacine in the front leg. And in the case of the little ram below a spray with fly stuff on his sores.

I mentioned when the lambs were born last year they put tight little rubber bands on their tails, it restricts the flow of blood to the tail and it falls off after a few weeks. Some people consider it cruel but here is why that process is needed. It's only a very mild case , I would not want to make you feel sick. Our little ram was fly blown, the little green flies bite them, lay eggs which develop into maggots. Which inturn can spread (crawl) right up their backs and down the sides eventually eating them alive. Wonderful!! Shaving their bums keep them dry and if they got runny tummies , keeps the wool from getting messed on.The hummid weather does not help much.



See that sore on his left backleg! Poor boy that's not the best look is it?

Opps We got told off for not having lick blocks again, I keep forgetting to replace them. Gee we are learning so much about sheep. Shearer agrees Miss Lashes and Bella's Mum are looking a little pregnant.They should be if Nelson has done his job right. They the only ones I let in with him.

Until nexttime

Rina