Before eating they took the goats ( with Jeremy supervising) for a walk on their leads.

Although I haven’t seen him feeding I know he has because he has had what’s called a ‘colostrum poo!’ This shows he has taken the first, rich colostrum milk from his mother’s udder and then the first evacuation from the lamb leaves a yellow-coloured mark on his tail and backside. I’m sorry if that’s ’too much information’ but it makes this strange smallholder very happy to see.

Here’s a photograph – please excuse the scary eyes courtesy of the flash light on the iPhone

And an hour or so of barrowing wood chip to the larger rhubarb patch to suppress the weeds

One rhubarb patch is covered in wool and one in wood chip. Which will work better as a weed suppressant ?

They were just in time to help bottle feed the lambs

Then the vets arrived to give the lambs anti worming drench

Then they took a look at Juno who has some bare patches on his legs. They took blood and hair samples to see if it’s nutritional deficiency ( unlikely) or a parasite or tick

Meanwhile Nigel was tucking into his latest trophy – pigeon pie

He believes that you should eat what you kill