Cleaning time again

Lucy, Janet and Harry (here for a week) clean out the pens yet again, there has been some rain therefore the pens get messy much quicker, wet and warm means fast breeding ground for disease.

New mums and babies watch as humans clean up

Hopefully this could be the last time for a thorough clean and disinfect as there are less than 40 sheep in the lambing shed left to lamb tonight 3 Whiteface Dartmoors and the rest Scotties. The Scottish Blackface ewes that live on the commons most of the year are lambing a pace in Chubb Tor fields, Mat and Janet go twice a day to check them (they do not like human interferance). Any problem mums are brought back to the lambing shed for assistance or forstering should they have had a stillborn lamb. This is the last bunch of ewes to lamb, the end is in sight  ''thank goodness'' we all echo. Everyone is very tired and tempers are short.