Finally, a Quieter Day

Sherry with her little girl. The splints helped and she is now out of the jacket too. Her twin brothers and she give her mother quite a handful to look after.

I went to Vermillion to pick up a pregnant Tunis sheep this morning from my friend Betty. The Tunis ewe does not fit her program because all the other lambs are two months old, so she was obviously caught on the last day the ram could have bred the ewes. Tunis sheep, originally the red fat tailed sheep from Tunisia, were imported to North America long ago and bred with American sheep to create the North American Tunis, which is quite different from the Tunisian Tunis. The most noticeable difference is that they no longer have fat tails, and they are only slightly reddish now, not the terra cotta of the original sheep. 

There were no more births today, so the chores got done and so did the dishes. I must go out and close up the chickens, ducks and geese in their pens for the night, though the ducks have figured out how to go through the fence and as soon as I put them in, they scamper back out. There are three geese setting on nests and one of the turkeys. The tom turkey is sick. I gave him garlic and honey for two days, but he is not eating, so today he got a shot of antibiotics. Walter, the Cotswold is sick too, and tomorrow I will go back to the vet's to get him another medicine. He has already been on several and is not responding and he is skin and bones. Poor Walter. 

Other than that, I am finally getting around to vacuuming. I can hardly believe it myself! Finally, a quieter day is a good day.

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