Other animals

As well as all the hatching of ducks and chicks we of course keep an eye on the other animals. 

The sheep are up the top and think they need new grass - we keep telling them they should see what other peoples sheep have to put up with!

Speck, the tiny Ouessant lamb born quite a bit after the others is doing well, she is still very small but has grown a lot

What a cutie

Cleanish hoof, hard with all the mud ;)

The calves are growing big, but it is still over a year until we will send Dorne and Wellington to the abattoir, it takes a long time to grow beef!

Here is Nathalie (the white and brown one) and Dorne. We are keeping Nathalie (she is a Normande) and hope she may be big and mature enough to have artificially inseminated this year, though it may realistically be next year before she is. We like them to have the calves at the end of Spring, after the ski season ends but before the flies get too bad and she may not be ready on that timescale, so either a later calf or next year for insemination.

Poppy is as energetic as ever (well maybe slowing slightly). She is 8 now and should be a mature sensible dog, but fortunately isn’t!

The cat is still busy catching things. She needs to take on more moles and voles though as the moles make a mess everywhere and the voles keep eating veg in the potager!