The Poultry Keeper

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

this is the list for today
i've feed 4 lambs ,bottles and weaning
now off to farmers market to deliver duck eggs (while i'm there nip into the butcher shop)
get back feed goats ,milk, water goats
feed chickens
clean out duck shed
go and take fencing down at tunga(electic)
got to pot up aubergines ,pepers and more tomatoes
muck out goatshed Evil or Very Mad

after letting goats out probably take all day Rolling Eyes

,its the thick winter deep bed Twisted Evil

pick up straw from crofters
feed again goats ,hens, ducks
and the lambs are on 3 bottles per day each
i'm not sure if everything will get done
its really hot ,i've had to make a pair of shorts
and eldest daughter is going beach fishing with 2 freinds,on a deserted beach and going to try to catch dinner Wink

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

mended the electric fence ,done all the usual stuff
dagged the sheep ,
gone to pick nonie up ,and helped move 2 cows one who had just calved
calf was still wet ,helped give it it's first feed ,it's got lovely bambi eyes Embarassed

debcat · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

put fred and carly to the common grazing, after getting phoned up to remove them from the new neighbours newly planted garden yesterday morning
left them there at 11.30am, just been to shut the hens up and they are back Shocked

the 2 of them curled up in the field with the other lambs

I haven't a clue what to do with him now apart from send him to the first sales - thats if the neighbours haven't strung him up before then
going to try yet another field tomorrow but not holding out much hope, he might wander but he's always home at bedtime Confused

Next year I am NOT bottle feeding
(suz remind me I said that)

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

yeh right

,i'm putting my eletric up so mine don't end up in the garden at the back of the feild ,they really don't like sheep Rolling Eyes

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1843 Location: norfolk

For goodness sake! How can you live there and not like sheep?!! It's a bit like moving to Heathrow and complaining about aircraft noise!

Seriously, it must be really difficult to keep on good terms with neighbours like that - suppose you've tried the lamb chops for their freezer thing?

debcat · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject:

if she put a gate on the drive they wouldn't be able to get in Confused

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1843 Location: norfolk

The law says that if you make no effort to keep livestock out it's your fault if they get in - learnt that one the hard way when a dozen bullocks got in my garden when the postman left the gate open........

debcat · Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

there's 2 people with nice gardens near me, neither of them has a gate Evil or Very Mad

and fred has visited both Rolling Eyes

going to try him in yet another field after we've finished the shearing tonight

kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1843 Location: norfolk

Stick a label to him saying "if I'm in your garden it's your fault!"

Best of luck with the new field.

debcat · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject:

guess where he's been today Twisted Evil

he's now on a long tether in the field and I'm praying his partner in crime who follows him everywhere will stay put

mcleod-girls · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2478 Location: South Cumbria

He sounds like a real character ! surely they should have closed gates Sad

debcat · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

there is a gate, they just don't shut it Twisted Evil

character is a good description, the boss has kept sheep for 50+ years and says he has never met one like him

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7154 Location: isle of lewis

posh gardens here =no gates Rolling Eyes

,or sometimes as my sheep escaped into a posh garden no fence Evil or Very Mad

,some children cut the fence on my croft ,since the sheep have been fenced there are loads of speeding drivers ,as they don't expect to met sheep on the road like they used to ,lost count of the amount of cars picked out of the ditch by us ,purely driving to fast and loosing the car Rolling Eyes

debcat · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject:

guess where freds partner in crime was first thing this morning Twisted Evil

OH put her in his feild as I was in town, she has shredded her ear trying to jump over the fence Confused

she is now next to fred
the first sales they are both going, although I can see them jumping out of the pens and arriving back home Confused