The glorious spring weather has made life much easier and it's lovely to have all the barn doors wide open with the warm sunshine flooding in. The girls have been spending a lot of time out in their field enjoying the sunshine and even our two new girls, Lara and Zenobia, were also spotted testing out the electric fence!
David has been busy getting the front field ready for sowing new grass seed. You may remember he ploughed it .. well, the next stage of preparing the ground is with a power harrow - this breaks up the big clods of earth left by the plough and leaves a lovely fine soil which is then rolled before the seed is drilled in.
As with all boys' toys, a power harrow is a big bit of machinery that fits on the back of the tractor ..
The plough turned the soil and left the field very rough ..
And it's interesting to see where the worms have been hard at work in the newly turned soil .. Their casts show up as darker soil where they bring everything back up to the surface .. We like our worms!
The power harrow breaks up the soil and you can see the difference here ..
In between arrivals this afternoon, I had a ride in the tractor with him, just to enjoy the view and watch what was going on.
This is all so important for us - getting everything right now means that we will have great forage for the goats to eat and that means we will have lots of lovely milk!
Anyway, enough about fields ... We want pictures of baby goats!!
So, here's a quick selection of new arrivals for you to enjoy ..
Many more to come yet!
If you use Twitter, keep an eye open for our postings on the new arrivals (when we have a mobile signal!!) @elliesdairy
So, that's it for tonight .. I'm back off to my little caravan at the side of the goat barn .. Another night of listening and waiting ... Night all!
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