Wet and wintery weather has returned
Posted in farm on March 9th, 2013 by JohnAfter the lovely warm sunshine and crisp clear nights its rather depressing to return to mud, flood and snow! All the sheep which lambed last week are back inside. Having been settled on some fresh grazing we decided in the early hours of the morning with the rain falling heavily and snow forecast to bring them all in. Although even lambs a few days old are fine if its just cold, the wet and cold together can chill them very quickly and if they get separated from the ewe and don’t feed regularly they soon get in trouble and if not found could easily die. We had a very busy night with two sets of twins born, with little assistance from us, and rounding up the 30 ewes and lambs from the meadow as the sun was coming up, and getting them settled back in the sheep shed. We divided the shed in half so those that haven’t lambed are easy to see at a glance, even when you half asleep at 3am. Its now late evening and snow has settled, well, settled everywhere that isn’t flooded. Next week we had planned to get the last of the fields ready for sowing sugar beet but that will now have to wait until we dry out again. In the meantime the sheep will be staying in until this weather clears and we can get on with the event present paperwork.