Today has been seriously, seriously busy. It has also been a fabulously warm and sunny day, as was yesterday, and so we decided that spring has indeed sprung and as such the animals can now be moved into their spring/summer fields. The ground has dried really well in the last 48 hours and the grass is now growing a-pace!!
So, in order of events...

• Remaining sheep (i.e. those yet to lamb) and all five alpacas moved to top 3-acre field to join ewes that have lambed. A ‘fun’ time was had as lambs met alpacas and slightly freaked out before realizing that they were just like their mums but a tad taller and with longer necks…Normal service was eventually resumed!!
• Cows let out into a now empty 4-acre field with a view that they WON’T need to go back into the Cow Pad – hooray for Jack who now won’t need to spend 1 ½ hours a day mucking them out! We have put a line of electric fencing wire to stop them coming in to the area of the field by the gate and field shelter as it is a tad squidgy there. Once the whole field is a little drier and the grass really growing well, we will then start to strip graze!!
• Cow Pad given good sorting, cleaning and raking and left ready(ish) for the first calving, (around 7th April)

• Onion gives birth around 2pm and amazingly it is another set of triplets although all BOYS!! The last one was covered a little in meconium which is usually a sign that there has been a bit of stress. Onion certainly had to push quite hard to get this last one out (usual for the last one born) and she was obviously uncomfortable but out he came and all seemed well. Onion’s udder was HUGE, probably uncomfortably so and so having three mouths to feed will be a good thing. She was a little tender to begin with when they first started but with a little help and encouragement, all three got the hang of it and Onion herself became the model patient mum.