Wednesday 23 March 2011

Last night after finishing 'blogging' I returned to the lambing shed to find a ewe had had a dead lamb, she just needed a little help, this morning her lambs coat was removed and placed on Daves rejected lamb and placed with this new mum in the hope the ewe would bond, but no she did not like 'Little Dave' either.

Lambing shed been really quite today giving time to clean out old straw and disinfect the individual bonding pens, this is done regularly to keep infection at bay the same as a hospital. This afternoon a researcher came from Wadebridge a research institute in Surrey to find some ticks on the open moorland to investigate if they were carrying a disease called Louping Ill, a nasty infection which effects the nervous system of animals and kills them, Here we lost 25 young breeding sheep (called hogs or 2 tooths) in 2 days a couple of years ago.
ticks collected(the black spots)



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