Daily Archives: 2007-01-30

Over 800 staples driven home; 140 battens stapled, all 7 wires up, and the 110m of boundary between the Scott’s fence and the new gateway into the orchard is finished.

After that Karola and I put up temporary fence across from the gateway to the Island paddock and blocked up the opening (soon to have a gate and rails) at the Scott’s end so we could let the ram lambs and Nelson have that strip of grass from the Island paddock up to the boundary with the peaches.

Then we drafted the sheep into males and females, merging the females with the 10 new Romney ewes in the Front paddock and letting Nelson and his mates back into the (now extended) Middle paddock. This is officially “weaning” and we expected a noisy night but there was much less fuss than we expected; the ram lambs were diverted by having a bit of fresh pasture; the ewe mothers were busy making aquaintance with the 10 new ewes.

Three ewes had footrot: #209 (left front this time), #212 (getting a bit better), and #215 (red tag, erk, maggots a plenty). All repeats.

Hawkes Bay Weather: 6°C—24°C; no rain [79.9]