It's that time of year!
I stepped out of the back door this morning on my way to work and heard the sound of a lamb calling to its mom. My wife texted me saying the ewe had not delivered her second lamb yet; so the cries I ...
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the storm started as rain yesterday on top of melting snow. We had lots of runoff through our farm and down our 1/4 mile long drive. The temps dropped and we got 11" of snow on top of the runoff. Our drive is snow on top of 3" of slush all of which will freeze when the temps drop to close to 0F overnight.
Yesterday the water seaped through the stone foundation of our barn making one of our large lambing areas very wet. I had to dig out the manure soup and wet hay and put down dry bedding. Later today I dug out my car (at end of the drive) shoveling the snow and 3" of slush (no point using the snow blower). This was on top of the daily lambing chores. I'm beat!
The snow would be fun if I didn't have to go out and work in it.
Yesterday the water seaped through the stone foundation of our barn making one of our large lambing areas very wet. I had to dig out the manure soup and wet hay and put down dry bedding. Later today I dug out my car (at end of the drive) shoveling the snow and 3" of slush (no point using the snow blower). This was on top of the daily lambing chores. I'm beat!
The snow would be fun if I didn't have to go out and work in it.
