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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2014, 11:16:34 pm »
Sudanpan, we work on 5 small bales per sheep per winter and that has always been enough.  So you would need 30.  You might not need them all, but best to be prepared  :sheep:


Thank you all for your lovely replies.  They have helped to cheer me up, because the very next day I collapsed at our local agricultural show - managed to finish all my judging before I keeled over.  It gave the First Aiders something to do  ;D  I thought I was ok today, but still having problems, and so much to do but not able to do it  :(
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2014, 04:39:59 am »
 :unwell: :hug:

I guess the heat doesn't help.  Not that any of us want to grumble about it!  :sunshine:

Take care of yourself, hope things come right quickly  :hug: :-*
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Brucklay

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Perthshire
    • Brucklay Pygmy Goats
    • Facebook
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2014, 09:42:01 am »
Take care Fleecewife - it's very easy to get carried away when there's so much to do and the weather is good, I'm the worst for that but we all want you to be well.  :hug:
Pygmy Goats, Shetland Sheep, Zip & Indie the Border Collies, BeeBee the cat and a wreak of a building to renovate!!

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2014, 01:25:32 pm »

Thank you Sally and Claire.  Still rubbish today  ::) but nothing like as bad as at the show.  We were going to bring in the ewes and lambs today but will just have to put it off.
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2014, 10:44:35 pm »
Oh, FW, try to take it easy - for a while at least. Your health is more important than anything else.

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2014, 08:09:29 pm »
FW thanks for the tip re the bales for the sheep  :)


Take care of yourself - working in the heat is never fun!  :bouquet:

goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
  • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2014, 10:44:29 pm »
...sorry to hear that Fleece, relax, the sheep can wait.  I seem to regularly knock my pan in for a few days and then don't have the energy to lift my fork to my mouth at tea time or even have a conversation with the kids.  Take it easy and stop and smell the roses  :hug:
registered soay, castlemilk moorit  and north ronaldsay sheep, pygmy goats, steinbacher geese, muscovy ducks, various hens, lots of visiting mallards, a naughty border collie, a puss and a couple of guinea pigs

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Isn't it great....update with pics
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2014, 01:25:49 am »

Aw thank you everyone  :wave:   I'm back to my usual self this evening, and freezing endless beans.  We've checked the ewes and lambs by sight, and there's just one little chap who needs to be looked at as he seems a bit scrawny so he will get a dose of wormer.  We put them on the hay aftermath so we can see them clearly - their other paddocks are so deep with grass that we can barely see the sheep  :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

 

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