Ever had three days running where you just didn't seem able to get things to calm down a bit..?
Tuesday one of our young ewes that we bought a week ago had a difficult birthing with a lamb that was just too big..,even the vet said he hasn't seen such a huge lamb in a long time...
The lamb didn't make it,but the ewe is just fine today.
A bit graphic, but with animals it isn't always moonshine and roses....
This morning we had a bloated ewe and another lamb with a bad case of diarree..
The vet put the pipe down her throat and thrust the end under Cules' nose..I thought he was going to faint ,the smell was so bad!
I love it when the vet pulls a fast one on Cules and catches him unawares!
Before she was drenched the vet unbloated her with a needle..it looked darned sore but she didn't even flinch when he inserted the needle...
There was vile looking and smelling stuff splattering out the needle!
The little lamb was injected and treated after the vet took a sample of dung and checked it under the micro scope..
Back home this is what my lawn looks like..
We are having to put in a whole new sewerage system as the house had a septic tank right by the back door and finally I said "NO MORE!!"
Whatever did the previous owners think when they built it there???
We now have to redo all the plumbing for three new toilets...the bathrooms are badly in need of revamping..
I now understand why they call it a "manhole" only enough room in there for one person to dig and it has to be as deep as a person stretching a spade above his head....
We are having one of those plastic ones installed...apparently guaranteed not to smell...
We are having a plumbing company do this for us...it would be one bad mess if we had to try this ourselves...
Then these people arrived to come and put up some security lights and an outside alarm system,they also fixed some of the lights inside the house.
At one stage it all got a little too much and I ran outside to have a conversation with my ducks under my favourite tree..
Of the fifteen baby ducks only one died and all the rest are going strong and are almost as big as Mom and Dad!
The sheep ewes provided me with some comic relief as I watched the big camp clean out after the rains we have had...to them a big plastic bag means food...
...there were a lot of big plastic bags coming and going throughout the morning,they ran hither and dither after the bags..
.....They had a real good workout...!!
This is what had to be moved out!
This is what they do before the plastic bags arrive...
This is what they do when the bags are seen!
A lot of baaing and jostling...
and for nothing.....
Lunch time is a bit later girls!!
