I made it up to the sheep barn today just in time to see the last lamb of the morning being tagged. French bureaucrats make one hell of a meal (no pun intended) out of lamb traceability and every year the requirements become more stringent. Tagging the lambs means a good dose of disinfectant, state of the art [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Playing tag
Posted in Farming, lamb and lambing, Wild Things, tagged border collie, Farming, France, French Alps, lamb, lambing, sheepdog on 26 February, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Hitting the bottle
Posted in Farming, lamb and lambing, Uncategorized, Wild Things, tagged Alps, Dogs, Farming, France, lamb, lambing, sheep on 24 February, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I abandoned my dearly beloved for a week to visit my sister, but it was business as usual in the sheep barn. Lambs were born and bottle fed when necessary.. ..and any leftovers always went to the most hardworking mutt. As usual. Wait a minute. Since when did hanging out with the lambs mean preferential [...]
Too much snow?
Posted in a glimpse of France.., Family Stuff, the Alps, tagged Alps, children, French Alps, Mountain, snow on 8 February, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Living in the Alps means that we have a fair bit of snow and I suppose that by now everyone should be used to it. But when we had almost 30 inches in 24 hours even the dogs were at a loss. Then the unimaginable happened. Roads coudn’t be cleared fast enough, barn roofs collapsed (not ours) [...]
The co-star of the sheep barn
Posted in Counting Sheep, Farming, lamb and lambing on 5 February, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A farm, like all firms needs a good manager. Someone who’s not afraid to take charge. Someone dependable, who is passionate about their work. Someone who has eyes everywhere and doesn’t mind the over-time. Someone who’s not afraid of responsability and who gets on well with the personnel. Meet Elfie, second-in-command and queen of the sheep barn.
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