lovely new fences

April 12 2017

Our beautiful warm sunny autumn has been interrupted by storms last weekend. On Sunday it absolutely poured and ground water accumulated behind the goat sheds making gumboots essential.  It is only today that the whole area becomes navigatable again.  This is important because now all the goats are coming into season and we need to cross this area to get them to the buck.

I feel sorry for the goats.  Unlike us they cannot just put on winter clothes when the weather changes this suddenly.  I have put down lots of fresh straw for them to bed down in and made sure they have stomachs full of roughage to create internal warmth but there is not much else I can do.  They are not complaining and the sun is out again today which helps.

With better weather the fencers have returned and are now working on the new fence below the big dam.  We hope they will also have time to put in the posts for the fence at the bottom of the gravel pit paddock. Whilst we are fenceless we have had the horses shut in one of the small crofts, which they have churned up into mud.  We are desperate to get them onto the hill where they will have more space and shelter.

Stevo was due this week to put up the end wall of the goat shed but he has flu. At least this means we can concentrate on the fences first. Yesterday it was too wet for any workers, even us, so we drove down to Warragul to pick up a new motor for the milking machine. Our old one is on it’s last legs and we are afraid it will collapse and leave us hand milking all over Easter.