Rams on the Rampage

Tuesday, 8:48 PM, 2 March 2010
Temperature: 44 F, raining

A fairly quiet day all in all. Still no new lambs; the boy and girl lamb are quite rambunctious, with the ram lamb (marked with the white blaze on his forehead) and his sister both enjoying trying to play king of the hill on top of their mother, who is far more patient with them than anyone might imagine. One of the geese shows signs of nesting, but if she's laid eggs she's hidden them quite well.

Came home this afternoon from errands and found Hercules had jumped the fence. It was raining quite hard and he was standing out there staring intently at the shelter but clearly at a loss for how to get back into his pasture; fortunately, once the gate was pegged open with the rain pinning the rest of the sheep in that pasture under the shelter, it was easy to nudge him in the right direction by just walking after him. He spotted the open gate and trotted in to the shelter of his own accord with no harm done except for a soaked farmer and ram.

We got the special prescription diet food for Wimsey today, and so far he shows signs of willingly eating it, with relish, even. A thorough plus. Little else was done of a farming nature today as the weather really didn't let up.

This weekend at the farm store it is 'chick weekend'; they will have over 1500 chicks on sale for that weekend only. As we will be picking up our first batch of trees we won't be planless, but we do intend to try to get there and take a look at what they've got.