Farm Day - May 2015

Where is Dona when you need her? As much as I like taking photos I don't take very many  on a Farm Day because I'm distracted. Seven Farm Club members were here this morning to help with some specific tasks. We accomplished those easily all the while enjoying each other's company. This is such a great group of friends First we caught all 76 lambs. We weighed all of them and vaccinated the older ones. We chose four ewe lambs and 4 ram lambs as the most likely options (narrowing it to 2 each later) for taking to Black Sheep Gathering next month. Because my flock lambs in March the lambs are still young and it's hard to think who I might want to take to the show in June. We also caught the 4 yearlings who did not lamb this year to choose which of them I'd take and also to replace their lamb ear tags with larger easier-to-read tags.  After we finished with the lambs I showed Gynna how to go about halter breaking lambs that she is going to take home with her in a few weeks.The birds were happy when we finished in the barn because then they had free access to their babies without worrying about all the people and dogs.

After lunch Kathleen, Gynna, and Peggy went to the barn and helped me change this pile into......this one. By sucking the air out of the bags with the shop vac we condensed that pile of wool into about half the space. That's a much easier job with more than one person.

 Ginny found an out-of-the-way place to sleep.Later this afternoon Dan put the mower on the tractor and I mowed the pasture behind the barn.

I've  been trying to clean out the freezer and I found a turkey the other day. It's in the oven now and I'm getting ready for turkey dinner (without all the trappings because that would take too much work).