Freckles and Ryley are growing up so fast, not quite full grown yet, but they have almost lost their puppy look. They have definitely hit that teenage boy stage but show flashes of the brilliant dogs they are growing into. Freckles is the softer of the two, whereas Ryley is hard headed and independant but [...]
We have a few large piles of wood that are taking up pature space and breeding snakes, foxes and termites (making it no good for firewood either), so now that the fireban has been lifted and itswet enough not to be a risk for everything catching fire, its time to build some bonfires!
The property has seemed really empty since we sold our first lot of Dorper sheep at the end of last year due to the drought. It was lucky that we did as we certainly would not have had enough feed for them and the horses through summer, especially as we are still hand feeding with [...]
Well Baby Baa made it through the first night and pretty much never looked back. He recieved an antibiotic shot on day two, and very quickly got the hang of walking on three legs. It took a few adjustments but we managed to splint and bandage his leg from above the elbow to his fetlock [...]
Woke up this morning to find our first little snowflake in the paddock, our first Dorper baby. Only problem is he has a broken front leg. Initially he was up and following his mum, but with very little weight bearing on that leg. Mum was hesitant to let him feed and kept walking away, but eventually [...]
Today we collected our small flock of Dorper sheep. We chose Dorpers as they are self shearing, are excellent mothers, have a very lean meat (essential with G’s health) and require far less physical work compared to wool breeds like merino’s. Plus their little black faces make them so cute! Trinity is overjoyed at finally [...]
One of our neighbours bought over a few of his sheep to help eat our paddocks down to reduce the fire risk over summer. In this case, a “few” sheep is 650 merinos!