William, still a bit poorly after his flystrike
Sheepshearing time again. We were too tired on Tuesday night to try and get the sheep in the barn - Susie had just given her dance and yoga classes and I'd spent 2 days pick axing a 40m trench to the barn to lay the missing electrical cables. As Chystelle wasn't coming until the afternoon we left it until the morning.
As per usual our sheep sensed something was afoot and we ended up chasing them for 2 and a half hours before we finally got them in the barn (yesterday they went in no problem at all). Chrystelle did her usual excellent job. the wet spring means most of the brown ouessants are horribly felted so their wool is unuseable. The white fleeces and couple of brown are OK. After FCO last summer its not been a good 12 months for farming. On the up side William seems to be recovering from his fly-strike.
It takes a few days for the sheep to sniff and recognise each other again after shearing.
Today I've been mucking out the barn. the next few days are busy with architecture work for me, leading a 3 day dance workshop for Susie, then excavations behind the barn on Monday!
The last few weeks we have had an occasional visit from a large eagle, finally got a photo to identify him...its a short toed eagle.
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