[Brucklay]

I try and keep my muck heap relatively tidy so as not to spread to much, making great effort to heap to the top - all a waste of time.


I moved the ewe's with their lambs down yesterday and spent a day clipping rear ends (yuck), vaccinating the lambs followed by the goats so they could use the same vaccine bottle - Lambivac day. What a day I was pretty done in but on my last look out the lambs had found the muck heap which is a lot of waste hay from the goats to not too dirty and were having great fun spreading it as far as they could - did make me laugh though watching the smallest ones making it higher than the big boys!!

[lachlanandmarcus]

Fantastic photo! How much fun are they having!

[ZaktheLad]

My lambs love the muck heap too and every evening without fail they group together and shoot up and down it leaping and bounding and racing each other from one end to the other.   It's great fun to watch and they are having a great time whilst doing it!  There is nothing so time consuming as watching lambs playing 

[Marlboro]

I'm going to be a bit of a spoiljoy here, having spent the last two days putting ours through the footbath due to an increase in scald I fear dancing on the muckheap may not be good for their feet . Perhaps I'm getting overly cautious. Mine have been dancing on the heap of spoiled hayledge(how the hell do you spell that ) that we cleared from around the cratch spots., Did realise not a good idea, they have also been sharing a large barn with their mothers so don't really know which to blame. They are not in that field anymore.

[SheepCrazy!]

Gorgeous lambs 

[Marches Farmer]

I love seeing lambs having fun and playing King of the Castle, but I wouldn't permit them to do it on the muck heap, any more than I would my children.  Heap, yes, muck, no.