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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Crofter on December 25, 2011, 11:34:24 am

Title: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Crofter on December 25, 2011, 11:34:24 am
Hope you all have a lovely day.  :wave: We've got a force 12 hurricane today (again) so feeding was a challenge!
Animals all fed and watered, now to feed the humans.

Dave
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Rosemary on December 25, 2011, 12:39:01 pm
Windy here too! Merry Christmas and hope you have a lovely day  :xmas:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Fronhaul on December 25, 2011, 12:41:38 pm
Merry Christmas!

Just been on a mammoth feeding round here in pouring rain and a foul cold wind.  Everyone had extra hay and a good helping of hard feed where needed, the in lamb ewes who aren't due yet got a trailer of fodder beet in each field.  And everyone who like gingernuts got at least one so it took over 3 hours.  Spent not enough time talking to my Christmas presents.  Lambing starts any time from 1st January so those ewes have free access to the barn at the moment and clearly have no intention of going anywhere cold and wet unless it is to taunt the rams on the other side of the track who lack a nice cosy barn. 

Now sitting here with a nice warm glow happy in the knowledge all the animals have enough food and thinking I wouldn't swap this for a conventional Christmas for anything.
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: jaykay on December 25, 2011, 02:31:01 pm
Horizontal rain here too, goats and chooks all crowded in the byre on top of each other.
Hope everyone has a great day  :reindeer:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Daisys Mum on December 25, 2011, 02:39:13 pm

Merry Christmas to all.
Very quiet here, sheep all went to market,1 horse sold, 1 pony out on loan, pigs in the freezer,geese in ovens just left with a few ducks and about 30 hens so I am having an easy time and I HATE IT, really missing the animals, I was looking forward to getting my Galloways in the spring but have heard that SEPA are going to stop allowing grazing along the river banks and as the river runs through my best field I am in trouble,
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: shep53 on December 25, 2011, 03:16:55 pm
Merry christmas  everyone!                                                                                                                                                            Rain and windy here too AGAIN :merryxmas: :santariding:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Mel on December 25, 2011, 07:33:35 pm
Merry Christmas everyone,hope it has been a great day for all.

The sun was shining and was very mild here although a little gusty,Girls went on strike for the day 8 eggs out of 60!-strange that,we had 30 yesterday!All tucked up in bed now.

 :xmaswindow:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Cinderhills on December 26, 2011, 10:12:37 am
Merry Christmas.  :wave:
Title: Re: Merry Christmas!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 27, 2011, 12:51:50 am
 :merryxmas: to all.  Very mild here in Shropshire and all the way up to Liverpool where we spent the day.