Never seen so little snow this time of year!

 I’m putting these here so in other years where it gets a bit thin we can remember how much worse it could be!

Now there are two!

 I suppose they are eating worms, they have made a right old mess!

First Silkie Egg

First Silkie has laid an egg. I suspect it was the middle one of the white ones as she squats for the rooster (dark one on the left).

They are small chickens, so a diddy little egg.

She laid it in the mud at the edge of the run. I am hoping she will get the idea and lay the next one in the nest box. I added a few more fake eggs to give her the idea. One of them has been digging around in the nest boxes and throwing all the eggs out (there are 2 legbar in this run already laying) for a few days, so I have been wondering if one if them might be thinking about starting laying. So exciting!

More snow needed!

It’s been lovely sunny weather for a few days, and before that a lot of rain. Both of which have been hard on the snow cover. Pretty, but we need more snow!

Here is Poppy doing her best snow dance…

First Frost

 

Lots of joists

 The old joist are still very solid, except at the end where they went in to the wall

So sadly we ended up having to replace them all

Now on to laying the subfloor, sanding the beam and taking some plaster off the wall before moving on to the 2nd section of the 7 there are to do

New ram called Coco

 The previous ram is in the freezer as he was being mean to his ladies (and had a go at me too).

It’s hard because they get all fired up with hormones in breeding season. But butting the girls when they were heavily pregnant and in labour was the final straw. Hopefully Coco can be more of a gentleman.. 

It is late in the breeding season now, so it is possible that the ewes are all pregnant already. We will see as there is enough of a gap between the rams being with them for us to tell which is which.

White is quite rare for the Ouessants, so it will be interesting to see what colour the lambs come out…