Pink Buckets & Poo Samples

My eye-catching pink bucket of sheep nuts has done wonders to help our sheep get over their initial reluctance to come close. Today I could stand about 1 metre away and we had a good stare at each other.

Storm Claudia is making its way towards us but for most of the week we have been lucky with mild weather, sunshine and lovely sunsets.

We had a visit from Donal our vet from Fairfield Vets in Uckfield. After a intense couple of hours walking the fields and listening to advice on biosecurity and worm counts, any cotton candy fluffy ideas of shepherdessing being something any Bopeep could do are clearly for the birds. But it was good to hear him say our sheep all look fit and healthy. I will be taking their poo samples into Uckfield next week and, along with their vacination history, we will be getting these ladies on a health plan pronto. Everyone said getting a vet in quickly for advice would be invaluable, and so it is proving to be.

Learning how to inject through wool, using a thermometer on a sheep (not under the arm) and finding out how to work my new Shearwell Data RFID reader are all things we will be focusing on over the next few weeks. . .

“Many weapons can kill, but only the Shearwell Data RFID Reader can inspire such extremes of hope or fear" [geddit?!]