Sunday 3 July 2011

Day 2 of a busy weekend

With shearing out of the way, today it was getting the hay in from the top of second field.  The weather was perfect and we now have a barn stocked with 235 lovely smelling bales of fresh hay - just 10 acres to do and we will be finished!
The SAME was a pleasure to drive, the bailer did not have a single tantrum - after we had sorted out the twine, and Sam and I worked as a perfect team on bale gathering and stacking.  We made an elevator out of a ladder which helped enormously.
So, here we are packing up, job done!
No more babies yet.  Bert is the next on the list - any time now would be okay, except the longer she hangs on the better due to the bottle feeding involved!  She is still very scaly with scabby places but I was surprised when we sheared her that there is some re growth of hair on her tummy - in fact quite a lot seems to have grown back on her legs as well.  We used lots of different things on her but I think the last thing we used - Filta Bak - seems to be the one that has made the real difference.  It has taken a long time to grow through and we haven't applied more since last year but it must have been a help as nothing else made much difference.

3 comments:

  1. Phew...always good to get some hay in the barn...just another 10 acres!!

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  2. Looks like the haymaking is going well! What is Filta Bak...can't find it on the Net at all and we have a skin problem with our little Button at the moment.

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  3. As you say - just another 10 acres!!
    I'll get the details of the cream and email them to you tomorrow, Judi.

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