Author Topic: A happy post- the grass is growing and the orphan crew are out in the field (Read 2191 times)

twizzel · « **on:** April 23, 2013, 09:14:49 am »

happy days- our orphan flock went out into the field last week. Within 10 minutes they had escaped

but fingers crossed no more escapees since we blocked off the bottom of the gates (they were going under!)
Cut down to 1 feed of creep per day now owing to dr. green being in abundance... the hard work is done now, they need to learn to be lambs now and distance a bit from me. Some of them are really getting quite big now!

Rosemary · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2013, 10:41:23 am »

Ooh, that's a lot of grass

Ours is coming, slowly. If I could get the bl00dy fertiliser on, that would help.

twizzel · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2013, 11:07:45 am »

The last 2 weeks it's really shot up. This field had dung spread on it after Christmas though which would have helped the growth. They have 8 acres of it! Now just got to persuade OH to let me get some ewes and start my own mini flock...

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2013, 11:16:44 am »

Lucky lambs! I too am very envious of that grass.

Oh of course you need some ewes - 8 acres of that sort of grass can carry up to 40 sheep, can't it?

twizzel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 23, 2013, 11:22:10 am »

I tried to sweeten the deal with choosing Texels as that's what breed OH prefers- a lot of our orphans this year are texel x and have a super shape. No chance getting 40... think 5 or 6 is more reasonable but he's still saying no $:-\$