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Sonny gets all the luck

29th December: This is lucky Sonny: Kay has found some extra grazing so can lamb in the spring - so 2 ewes came as a special Christmas present. Sonny was fairly pleased and indeed had his wicked with each of them several times before we had even finished the paperwork. They get to live together in the small (grass-less) paddock for 6 weeks, with extra hay and some shelter - rather welcome today as the wind is howling and roaring across the hillside. I was glad not to be a sheep today and as the forecast is so dreadful for the next few days we shall have to put off shearing until a bit later ...

Lovelorn rams

Sunday 11th December: Well, the fun is over for another year ... I put the rams back with their long-term wether (fine-wether?) friends and left the ewes in peace. This was less traumatic than I feared (sometimes there is resistance!) but having a few wethers around confuses rams usefully, and anyway there was food in buckets.

Then I swept the yard and generally tidied up for an hour or so, to the accompaniment of a sound similar to someone hammering in a fence post, but actually it is the sound of two ram foreheads meeting at speed. Result: slightly swollen and bruised foreheads but nothing to worry about ...