It is now October and we have survived the summer and the rain has started again for the winter.  Thank god for a nice september.  Thankfully everything was harvested including hay and silage so we should be fine for the winter.

The lambs grew and we are selling them at the moment to Good Herdsmen though we are more than happy to sell them to the public as half a lamb or a whole lamb. 

We have just had a couple of litters of piglets which are doing very well - there is even a nice spotty one which my daughter calls a dalmation.  When I have finished off our shed for the pigs we will be housing some of them, we will start with the weaners as they seem to be digging up the field the most.

We have bought a new boar, whom Bec (our current wwoofer) has suggested calling Morris.  Poor old Borris, who has been of great service, will be going off to the factory.  We hope the new boy will be as good.

We will be housing the cattle in the next couple of days - feeding silage in the field is not the best when the ground is getting very soggy.  We will start weaning the calves off the cows when they come into the shed;  the calves will be able to go into a different section on their own to get away from the cows where they will be fed a bit of meal.