ozcountryquiltingmum

What's happening on the farm?

...the rain has abated and left only large 'lakes' -unfortunately they were once cropping paddocks! C'est la Vie....
I'm still organizing my photos from the holiday (managed to whittle them down to 215 at least!) so I will share some lamb marking pictures instead.

Lamb marking is my kids' favourite thing so they were well involved. My grown up nephews also assisted as they need a few 1000 done as well.

Lamb marking involves putting a ring on tails (and another pair of bits that are not required!) and giving the lambs an ear tag so that they remain traceable at all points along the chain. They also get a drench, an injection, that was performed by little old vet me, that covers them for 6 diseases including such gems as black leg (sounds more like a pirate) and pulpy kidney (self-explanatory!) It is all done in a beautifully pain free way and the tails just drop off after a few weeks. This is a much happier result than leaving the tails on and having the poor sheep invaded by flies in their nether regions in the summer.

DD surveying the Mums waiting very noisily for their babies to come back, nice and foggy as well.....

Couple of old farmer's surveying their surrounds......

This little cutie is too small to fit in the marking cradle so gets personalized attention, farmer version of private health care........ Notice her superb addition of costume jewelry, all the best dressed Australian lamb is wearing it this season!

Ahhh, the stirrups, an unfortunate memory for many...not just the lambs!

No, I wont talk, you can't make me.........

DD learning the ropes on a smaller lamb, very proud of her efforts, while her brother just kept chasing them in...-and requesting, in no uncertain terms that his mother stop taking pictures and get on with the work!

Preparing for the unknown, reminds me a little of Babe! Excepting of course, that they are not pigs!




Are you my kid (or was that lamb??)

Back outside and the great match up begins. The lambs may not be quite so keen to see their mothers when they catch sight of that trendy body piercing!

And speaking of wool, I retaught myself to crochet (after a 20 year hiatus) when on the way to Melbourne, here are the prototypes that may one day be something, Ds suggested the one with the green bubble in the middle looked like a Barbie sombrero and DD thought the red could be a 'hair thing!' Works for me!