As planned Mark and I loaded up the seven 2022 wether lambs into the big trailer with stock crate attached. We didn’t get there until 11:00am though I was aiming for 10:30am which was the advertised starting time. In fact the saleyards were almost deserted but my paperwork was accepted and we offloaded the wethers without a hitch. Our yard assistant did notice they were not really prime lambs and should be in the Wednesday store lamb sale. I was worrying that they were so close to being a year old that as store lambs there’d be no time to fatten them but even the biggest of them was still some way off becoming a “two-tooth”.

Mark also caught yet another possum.

Marcus Ormond and his eldest daughter turned up just before lunch and had a look at the triplets, charming little things, and their sick mother. Marcus suggested he could drop in the following day and give the ewe a penicillin shot – though without much hope of a good result. I asked Marcus about how little pasture we had left but he thought, while not being abundant, there was plenty.

Bangle, Karola, and I went into Hastings to pick up the metal stand for the generator. As we were there we picked up coffees and a sandwich for lunch plus, from Farmlands, 20kg of feed wheat, 10kg of milk powder (in case we ended up feeding the triplets), and three teats. Picked up the stand from SteelWorx then went to the park for our walk.

Marcus TXTed that he’d found someone to raise the triplets and he suggested he take them away and dispatch the sick ewe. Soon afterwards he came round with his two eldest daughters. It’s the younger of these that wants to feed the lambs. I gave them the milk powder and teats and said goodbye to the triplets. I planned Mark would dispatch the ewe tomorrow and take the meat for his dogs and cats.

Oak Avenue Weather:2.3℃—12.1℃ no rain [?] TdP eggs=2 Mark=4