As promised, this is our current ‘To Do’ list – some of these are long term and will take us well into the winter months...
(Pic is of Onion waiting for her supper - it's unusual in that her mouth is closed and she is silent!!)

• Sort abattoir for lambs
• Finish last faecal egg count checks of year, including fluke
• Email Rachel at vets with cow tests and plan what they now need
• Get cow crush into collecting area and all set up
• Get hay racks up in collecting area field shelters
• Sort rain collection in collecting area field shelters
• Sort cows field shelter including ‘mucking out’ system
• Continue to sort barn store, setting up for winter management and lambing/kidding in the spring
• Tidy ‘lean-to’
• Use scaffolding for goat climbing frame or ‘chuck’
• Sort water collection/ diversion from workshop/ potting shed roofs
• Add reporting feature to Smallholding database
• Set up a fourth stall in barn once hay/straw reduced
• Sort freezers ready for poultry/ lamb
• Set up growing areas x2 in garden ready for the spring (plots already chosen)
• Clean greenhouse
• Prepare for arrival of fruit trees