[Remy]

Apart from yesterday when we got a brief respite it has rained non-stop for four days, all through the night as well.  So far the ewes and lambs who have the best field are coping fine, they don't have a purpose built shelter but do have a lot of hedges.  All the other sheep have access to a shelter (still waiting for one to lamb and I bet she chooses today, it is torrential!).

I've had to move the horses back into their winter field which I usually keep for haylage once they've moved off it, their summer paddock is under water  .

I know we needed some rain but I am heartily sick of it now 

[Victorian Farmer]

It looks bad next week end .

[Bramblecot]

It looks bad next week end .

That'll be on my days at home then 

[plumseverywhere]

Just feels really depressing now...gone on too long, routine tasks feel mountainous in the ankle deep mud. Animals look fed up too 

[suziequeue]

Yes - rain all day here aswell. We eventualy relented and brought the sheep in under cover - just for a bit of respite really. Everyone was standing around hunched over and not eating. DH picked up one of the lambs who was dithering and it was wringing wet 

On the up side it has meant that I have had to work in the workshop so I have filed all the paperwork and done some work on the chicken plucker and the motorised compost trommel

We've got the stove going and the kettle on..........

[deepinthewoods]

a motorised compost siever?? now that i do like the sound of!!

[TheCaptain]

never seen it as bad. We have an underground drainage ditch that runs from one side of our field to the other. This has now turned into a river that is a foot deep in some places!!!

[suziequeue]

a motorised compost siever?? now that i do like the sound of!!

Well - it's all been designed in my head so it might turn out to be a disaster but I am hoping that with the skills I pick up motorising the chicken plucker, I can put to good effect with the siever...........

ALl will be reported on here in due course (I hope) 

[YorkshireLass]

motorising the chicken plucker,

Is that you, Mrs Tweedy...? 

[Padge]

 

[dyedinthewool]

Torrential rain here all day until very late this evening.

Does anyone remember 'the Goodlife' when Barbara had to get the veggies in when Tom had a bad back...? and Margo helped...!! in her 'wet' gear slipping and sliding in the mud - well that was me today getting in and out of the piggies pen with a bucket of feed as they refused to come out of their shed... wellies getting stuck in the quagmire - I had to hold onto the fence as not only was it muddy but we had a howling gale as well -  incase a wellie got stuck and i had to pull it out (which it did, several times).

Piggie girls looking on from the dry of their shed...

Now raining yet again...