Grooming

Not exactly grooming, more eating the hay off each other; Pixie likes burying her head in the hay bucket and doesn’t take it out until she’s ready, so her head ends up covered, Walter likes to be king of the castle so they often play there and pause to pick the bits off each other. Did the weekly collection of bales of straw and hay, the donkeys definitely prefer wheat to barley. No damage from the very high winds, the water butts are all tied to something, the two on the greenhouse are the most vulnerable but they were ok. Dodged the showers and poo picked the paddocks, tasty fish and chips from the van in Child Okeford.

Ouessants

The ewes are feeding their lambs several times a day, the enthusiastic approach seems a bit harsh and could continue until the lambs are four months old. Pixie is almost the same size as Nola. Digby is the youngest at 8 weeks old and is called to feed by mum Winnie, his horns are fully grown and have lots of ridges. He lies down and sleeps in the paddock quite often and is only just licking the feed bucket, he doesn’t eat the treats like the others. The day started with low cloud and light winds, by the end of the day the wind was gale force and buffeting the runner beans. A pint at the local pub and fish and chips from the van was delicious.

Nola and Pixie
Winnie and Digby