April

I love April because it’s the start of the Spring. The first leaves are on the trees, and the lovely yellow primroses are already out in bloom. Last week we saw the first Swallows arrive back from Africa, they’ve flown thousands of miles since they left Borough Farm last Autumn.
The lambing season is nearly over and we now have over 800 lambs on Borough farm. Last week we had a lamb born weighing 9kg. It’s so enormous that it was nearly as big as me. Another sheep had three lambs, called a ‘triplet’. One of them was as small as a Guinea pig! They looked really funny standing together.

Every morning the boss takes Jake, Fern and me to check on all of the ewes and lambs. We have to run miles around all of the fields, while the boss rides on his quod bike. He’s so lazy!
It was just as well that we looked carefully this morning. One ewe had her head stuck in the fence. She had pushed it through to eat the grass in the hedge behind, but she’d got so tightly stuck that the boss had to cut the fence to get it out. Worst of all it was the fourth morning in the row that she had done it! Sheep are so silly.

The oldest lambs are really big now, and in a few weeks time we will have to round them up and put them into the pens to have their worming medicine, it’s a really difficult job and very hard work. I’ll tell you how we get on next time.

See you soon!         Mist