Karola got the sheep into the Island paddock in preparation for crutching this morning. She also decided to combine the pregnant ewes and the 6 ewe lambs intended as replacements.

Gill’s Ben arrived back from his European trip mid morning, exhausted, as expected. Gill is very happy (to have him back).
Carl arrived at 9:30am then had to go away again to change mobile shearing trucks. He and his wife returned shortly. They crutched the older ewes, belly crutched the two-tooths who hadn’t been shorn for a while, and dagged the 6 ewe lambs.

The two-tooths were also given a shot of 5-in-1 vaccine as, unlie the rest of the ewes, they’d not had it before. All the ewes will need a shot about two weeks before lambing – it prevents a whole list (well, at least five) common fatal illnesses in their lambs.

After Carl, his missus, and the truck had departed we had lunch then Karola and I put Magnum (anti-flystrike, anti-lice) on all 38 sheep. (Magnum – withholding for meat of zero days).

Karola put up electric fence on part of the lawn, along the to of the ha-ha. She then cleared away the blackberry that I’d chopped out of the orange tree and let her sheep in.

After dinner it was another evening of Wimbledon tennis.

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