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Working Dog pups looking for farm lives / loving homes. Border collie. DOB 20/3/25. Microchipped, vaccinated, wormed, health checked.

It's been wet here.

Lambing is underway. All lambs are adorable, but English leicester lambs win the cuteness prize ⭐️

Fay Gwendolyn and Pep settling in for the night...

I wish they could open gates ...

It's been a long day. Fencing. Feeding stock. Moving lick feeders around. Gathering Merino lambs and cull ewes for transport tomorrow ⭐️First lambs born today. A set of twins⭐️

On the eve of lambing. Three mobs of crossbred ewes out of containment paddocks and onto pasture. This paddock, the Briars, is a multi-species perennial pasture and hasn't been grazed for 7 months.

It actually rained. 17mls in 24 hrs. Doesn't change much in terms of the daily grind of supplementary feeding, but it may help put us in a better position for some spring growth when things warm up. Psychologically uplifted anyway !

A day of wigging and drenching wethers...

Gathered the wethers this afternoon. They're yarded, ready for a drench and a wig tomorrow. Brought one weak fella home. Took a bit to squish him into the Buggy.

Hmm, yesterday's gale force winds destroyed this shed. Sections of the roof, tin and beams, were carried as far as 60m away, across the yards, and into another paddock.

After several unsuccessful attempts to find the 6 stragglers, came across them yesterday whilst at Wilsons to give the wethers a feed of hay. The ewes look fine. I think I'll leave them here to lamb. More tucker here than at home.

It's been a long day, but a good one. At least all the stock have full bellies. Now I can fill mine...

This is why I am not a shearer....

What an incredible display last night.

900 crossbred ewes back from the bush today, apart from a few stragglers...