This morning we rescued another lamb from hubbies workplace and, I’m delighted to say, so far all is well.  Hubby spotted her newly born this morning and noticed the mother had not licked her and was generally disinterested.  After 2 hours we made the decision to bring her home.  She had been slow to get on her feet and I was concerned there could be problems but, after a little goat colostrum and Ketol, she was soon up and almost running.

This time it is our younger dog that has taken on the mothering role.. and a very proud and protective mum she is.

Lambie wandered over to the fence to meet our donkey & miniature horse. They are such nosy animals.

There have been more chicks hatch here too.  Some Pekin bantams:

And Brandy, my lovely bearded Silkie, has some Silkie babies and a couple of Wyandottes.

Today we had the paddocks Limed. The local (& very helpful) horse supply shop suggested it would sweeten our ground after all the manure the animals add & help the grass grow so lets hope the $170 investment was worthwhile.  Really hoping for some rain tomorrow to wash it in.

We also went out to purchase a special new apple tree to plant on ZhaZha & came home with 4! Winter Banana, Hetlina, Dayton & Sir Prize. They are heritage varieties & supposed to be disease resistant.  We’ll whip out & replace the 4 Jazz trees we’d grown as grafts 2 years ago because we discovered they are very prone to black spot.. not good when we prefer to spray as little as possible.