Getting to be big boys and girls

On Sunday we weighted all the lambs and gave them all some medicine for intestinal worms and I thought you would like to see how big the lambs are getting. The one with his head in the bowl is one of the bigger ones and is around 100lbs and the one walking away is little brown nose, he is one of the triplets that we bottle feed because his mum had mastius and could not feed them herself.
 He is the smallest of the triplets at 54lbs.

 His is the hay scrummage, there is plenty to go round but like all sheep the lambs want to eat what his neighbor is eating.

This is the cool place to hang out, the shade of the trees even and 8am is the best place to be.

 

 Taking a walk though the field we seeded this spring and the out look is optimistic IF we can keep getting some rain.
Part of the field looks like this, which is not good but it is still hanging in and with a bit more rain it my produce some hay and or grazing.

 This part of the field looks a lot better, still not ready for hay or sheep but is a lot healthier and it is helping us keep our spirits up even though we know we are going to have to buy quite a bit of expensive hay from somewhere.

The chicks that where born on the 4th July are on their first excursion in the big chicken run. We lost 3 of the chick to a predator when they where only 2 days old, but now at nearly 3wks we decided to put them in with the old chickens that like to stay in the winter quarters.
We put them in early Sunday morning so they would be use to the run before night time, at 8pm we went to catch them and fasten them in the chicken house for the night and we found our old cockerel with a very bloody face.

We think he has been defending his girls and babies, part of his comb on his head is missing and his eye is partly closed. We gave him a close inspection and while he looks quite battered all of his injuries look to be superficial and best of all  know one else was hurt so he did a good job. Dave is now patroling the chicken run at dusk and dawn to see if he can find the critter that is harming our chucks.