Saturday 31st October: Bright and sunny with a high of about 18 degrees. Steve has gone away for a week as doctor to the Tour of Southland bike race, so the boys and I are running the place!
Today I sawed up bits of wood for the fire and fixed a new roof on the henhouse, cooked a roast dinner, moved the electric fences, sorted out lightbulbs, but also spent a lot of time trying to feed Shirley and Felicity. It seems that the two of them have not fed from a bottle before, and were probably feeding from their mum until yesterday. Shirley finally learnt to suck after lunch and had two small feeds of milk, but nowhere near the litre a day she should be having, but hopefully now she has got the hang of it she'll be more interested tomorrow. Felicity has proved to be more tricky. In the end my friends Gael and Jeff walked round to help out and decided she was just being sulky! She made a couple of attempts to suck but then refused so really didn't have any milk today. Hopefully she'll feel hungry enough tomorrow to make some effort. In the meantime the two of them are skipping around their pen looking for a way out, and giving me plenty of exercise trying to catch them for milk. How come everyone else's lambs come up to the fence for their bottles and empty them in under a minute? I must have spent 3 hours altogether today with a warm rug on my lap and milk dribbling down my arm.
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