Sunday’s banter, April 19th ’20. Hiccup strikes again.
Hiya Folks, your favourite ‘paca here to brighten your quiet day of confinement stuck in front of US cop show re-runs for the umpteenth time on tv or appallingly bad reality games shows that just boggle the mind……..people are paid ‘real money’ for this?…….you really do need to get out more, come and join us in the field, chill with our gang for a bit, you’ll love it.
Well as you can probably imagine we’re having our usual quiet time here, not much passing traffic to get excited over and certainly no visitors to hum to or investigate any goodies in their pockets! We have got some new young’uns arrived after Kiska’s ‘Elowen’ a few weeks ago………oh yeah, her legs have straightened out a treat now, look……….
She looks very white compared to young Falcon looking at her, lets say he’s just a typical boy…….grubby!
As I said before the mating season is with us now & unfortunately Sakura and I were walked up from our field to meet a couple of the boys up at the house barn …… I say ‘unfortunately’ because I for one am perfectly happy as I am, staying in our field with my mates, munching and chilling, I don’t want to meet with a ‘boy’……….noisy, grubby oiks!
Oh well, if we must……nice day for a ramble anyway…..
Oh No……….must you?!, how undignified……. and the other one is sniffing me!!… wot’s he doing here, he should be with Sakura!
HELP, MUM!……… get him off me……..I’M NOT HAPPY!!!!
I really hope that doesn’t happen again! I didn’t like that one bit………. I think I’ll talk about something else now…..following Elowen’s birth in March, Pip decided it was her time ten days ago so after breakfast………
Welcome to ‘Ashby’, very well camouflaged against the ground! Note that Pip just carries on eating……. well she’s an old hand at this birthing lark, Ashby is her 8th cria now, she’s a great mum.
Welcome young lady, fluffed up and running around in after a couple of hours, lovely.
No…………. that’s not Mum! Hello Terra, just saying ‘Hi’.
And then we had a surprise when first time mum Rohini birthed in the bergerie (shed) down in Park field 2 days later, trouble is Rohini didn’t understand what was happening so when done she followed everyone else out and went grazing down in the field leaving her cria in the bergerie, poor little tike. Luckily one of our carers came down a few hours later to see us and found him jammed in the hayrack! More dead than alive he was rushed back up to the house barn with mum in the van for some emergency care.
Although Rohini has plenty of milk for him he was too weak to stand up for long enough to feed and kept falling over. Also he was right down on his pasterns, that means not standing on his feet but down on his ankle bones, very uncomfortable & difficult to stand. Colostrom supplement, anti-biotic & vitamin injections & then powdered milk boosts every 4 hours or so to keep the little guy going.
A week on and he’s turned the corner or so it seems although it’s early days still but he’s feeding from mum now quite happily and running about a bit now and then. He looks much happier and more with it now, see below……..
So although I said earlier that it is all quiet here, it’s not really, there’s always some little dramas happening one day or another, don’t you just love it!
I couldn’t resist this pici of ‘Ooh la’ catching the sun, she just shines, lovely. Oh yes, I forgot to say that we should have started shearing this weekend with Ian & Tom arriving on Friday afternoon from the uk but obviously with the Covid problem that has been put on hold for now….. lets just hope it does not get too hot too soon! I’m glad we didn’t start today as it is raining really hard at the moment which would have been a problem, all of us shut in the barns since yesterday to keep us dry, no fun, lots of spitting probably! And just to finish today, how about Pip & Ashley bonding…………ta ta for now.
