Out and About in the Afternoon

As soon as I start walking around with a camera out in the paddock.. in the middle of the afternoon.... EVERYBODY wants to know what I'm doing!!

Doubled the size of my suri herd on Sunday with the addition of Hannah and her cria Harriet.

Also joining the team is Tina, who is a blue eyed white and appears to be deaf.  She has had no issues raising her crias who are not similarly afflicted.

Even the sheep want to know what's going on!

And Sunday Rose likes hanging with the big kids so much that when they ran up to greet me, she forgot everything Sherrie told her, and came too!!

Ody and his half brother Rhys (left) and full brother Ody (right) all starting to gel as a team in the Ng paddock.

Such a handsome boy:

Chaska (centre) and Kantu (right) have completely settled in now, here being expertly photo-bombed by Mareebah!

More Spring Colour in the Garden and Alpacas on the Move

A few more patches of colour in my garden :)

Yesterday I took Farquhar to join his friends Jack Sparrow and Pierre at Canowindra.  

Once they had worked out that it was their friend Farquhar joining them, they made it pretty clear my presence was no longer required!!

Driving there was very scenic with lush green paddocks full of new lambs and calves and all the canola in bloom.

Little Miss Mouthie and Sunday Rose

Little Miss Mouthie is thriving.  She is putting on approximately 115g per day, and now weighs 6.31kg.  After lunch she goes out into the driveway paddock for some exercise.

She usually manages to draw quite a crowd!!

Meantime at 2 1/2 weeks of age Sunday Rose has decided she's old enough to play with the big kids, she leaves mum Sherrie far behind and hangs close with her older 'cool' friends.

Spring in the Garden

Its been a good wet winter, and I was expecting (? hoping?) for a lot more flowers in the garden, but there are a few bright spots of colour.... and a lot of weeds!!  Time to get to work!!

New Lamb

On Saturday evening, my neighbours from down the road arrived with a little (well BIG really) ewe lamb, whose mother had walked away as soon as she was born.  She was found in the shallows of the dam!!

She gave me a bit of worry at the start but is looking much better now.  They had named her Maggie (as in Maggie Simpson) because of how well she latched onto the bottle.  They live about 10 kms south of us, and Maggie has the biggest voice I've ever heard on a lamb, so I call her 'The Mouth from the South', or Mouthie!!  She weighed 5.38kg this morning, which is pretty impressive for 4 days old.

She is 6 days younger than Sunday Rose, and they are both out of Merino mothers, by Dorset rams, hopefully they will be good pals a bit later on :)