Early

Earlier start. No point being too early usually as we feed outside so being daylight and able to see who we are feeding is important. However today we were needing to be away early so the sun hadn't risen when I walked the dogs pre feeding. 2 walks today a short one with Pip on the lead. Once she was safely back indoors I took the rest for a longer one.

After feeding we headed to the farm where we manage the livestock to get the cattle in ready for their blood testing and to find out who is pregnant. We had a team of folk helping as husband still not good with this chest infection. So glad of the help. It's the same vet who did ours and spayed Pip yesterday. The pregnancy testing went well. We made a radical change last year and took out a large number of the main breeding cows as they seemed to be subfertile and it was passing on to their daughters. So with taking them out and bringing in new heifers there were 15 rather than 20 to the bull. All but one in calf whereas the year before we had 21 to the bull with only 14 in calf. Now the breeding herd can be built on fertile cattle and so calving percentages should continue to improve. All tired tonight especially as I was in charge of all the paperwork and recording!! 

Pip is doing fine so far thankfully. She hates not getting to come feeding with me though.

Feed wagon has just turned up with our next 4 tons for the feed bin. It gets blown into it. For those that haven't seen Fun video of its construction here. Going through 4 tons a month the animals are struggling with the wet winter and summer.

9c sunshine all day