The calves have had their last drink of milk and are now on muesli, cut with 25% grower pellets. This bag of muesli will transition them to grower pellets, which they will get for at least another three months. They are eating with enthusiasm now, they go to their feeders when they see me coming.
Moved the herd around again, Flora is now in with Annie, who was keen for adult cow company. The calves are still with her, leaving Jaffa and Sorcha and their babies in the far end paddock. The sheep are now in the loafing shed and will be moved into the shearing shed at first light to empty out for the shearer coming at lunchtime tomorrow. Then they will go into the sheep shelter paddock and Annie's gang will go into the cowmahal section. I am playing ruminant tetris.
The cider apple trees are flowering and the yucca by the chook house is too, it's a nice change to smell the scent of blossoms on the breeze. If the wind is right I can also smell the hay being cut around the area, lovely and sweet warm grass.
I picked up a heap of items off the clearance table at work, most notably a little bottle divided into three sections, vanilla sugar, caramel sugar and cinnamon sugar. A shaker for pancakes or french toast.
Another shot of the chard trees in the little greenhouse. Who knew they would just keep growing upwards ? The cows snuck into the back yard and found them this morning and there are shards of chard everywhere. We'll have to see if they regrow.
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