Almost New Arrivals!

This afternoon after Geoff finished work we drove to Lymington to check out our next 'soon to be' couple of residents for our place!  We actually have a choice of two. Either a three year old or a two year old . Both in calf and both with a heifer at foot. This one pictured is the two year old with her teeny tiny little calf to her left. They are Dexter cattle, an old Celtic breed. They are very popular over here. Mainly because they are tiny but great beef producers. This little thing is minute!!! Hopefully they will get delivered in the next couple of weeks. We hope so! The grass won't stop growing! So that's very exciting to see them. We are not sure how we will go with cows, neither of us ever having had one before. But we are firm believers in food conquers all, so we are confident in a few weeks she will come running at the sound of wheat rattling in a tin. Everyone else here does!!

The rest of the day l mowed! Like l said..the grass is growing! Lovely sunshine but still lots of rain. The Walnut tree is finally in full bloom and is quite glorious. When you see it from a distance its span is at least twice the width of the house. Looking forward to the long warm summer evenings outside under it! (l presume we WILL get some warm summer evenings this year?)

As l was around the place all day today l let the kiddies out to play in the big paddock. They had an absolute ball.They played on the rocks,ate blackberries (yay!!) galloped around like mad things ......................

 

and basked in the sunshine under the tree. l am sure they will be sleeping well tonight!

 Elle and her babies watched and slept carefully from a distance!

Here's a photo l meant to put on yesterday but it was in my other camera. Here is the first boy born probably only half an hour old. We had a yellow lamb last year. Its more common in twins and indicates a stressful birth. Its called Meconium staining and happens during the birthing process. Luckily for us it caused no problems and he quickly recovered. No idea if the second one was yellow too as we weren't there but its certainly a surprise first time you come across an egg yolk coloured lamb!

Luckily the yellow goes away very quickly. .............................imagine if it didn't??

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