I spent another couple of hundred bucks on lucerne for the #alpacas & #lambs yesterday.
(The reason I left the house while still positive for #Covid - a trip to the produce store, the chemist & Maccas for hot chocolate)
It’s been raining overnight & is still pouring down.
Their paddock is slowly getting greener with the rain these last few weeks.
Fingers crossed I’ll be able to start spending less on feed in a month or 2.
Waiting for our local produce store to deliver more lucerne for the #alpacas & #lambs.
Hopefully the temperature will rise a bit while I wait.
I’m feeding the flock with lots of smaller lucerne bricks instead of throwing out half bales at a time since I’ve had the dizzies recently.
Nothing worse than going to throw half a bale, getting dizzy, losing control of the throw & ending up looking like a lucerne snow man.
The #lambs & #alpacas were fed around lunchtime.
The sun was shining but strong winds & rain were coming down on me.
The winds have been howling since the storms last night.
I’m waiting on my #Woolies delivery.
(What a different order it would be if I knew when I placed it that Covid had arrived here!)
#Dinner tonight #roastPork potatoes & vegies in a thick sauce.
A post Covid awareness delivery is coming tomorrow morning - lots of liquids, juices, throat soothers, tests etc.
Their mothers have all been sheared this evening, Lemmy, Perdita, and Harry are not impressed.
This morning, as I was heading off to the doctors, 2 women walking #Malamutes saw me hopping into the car & asked if their dogs could get a closer look at the #alpacas & #lambs.
They were on our driveway & the dogs kept looking at our animals & we’re doing lots of head tilting, looking confused.
I said “sure” & we drove off.
The alpacas & lambs had been still eating lucerne & in the rear vision mirror we saw Ozzie move to the gate to put himself between the visitors & his “herd”.
Took a while to get the chubby #ewes out of the paddock & into the yards for preg scanning tomorrow. I wonder how many lambs are on the way?
#SheepOfMastodon #lambs #sheep #Defaidodon
Oh no.
I've just found out that LambCare Australia is looking for foster carers for baby lambs that need bottle feeding and cuddling during winter.
And last but not least for this morning, as breakfast is almost gone…
The black sheep. Also seen yesterday.
I love how these lambs wag their tails while drinking.
Another truckload of #lucerne arrived this morning.
#Lambs & #alpacas are loving it.
This morning I fed them some #lucerne & #poppedlupins.
Just now I gave the #MudBrothers some more carrots (the huge, long ones #Woolies sell as #TheOddBunch. I slice lengthwise & each big carrot becomes 4.) & another bale of lucerne.
Chaser pictured, eating something like his 12th carrot of the day. So far. (He’s ignoring the newest bale of lucerne & hoping for more #carrots.)