Yesterday was awesome - sunshine really does lift the spirits. The Mums & Bubs were all enjoying the sun, and munching on the hay. Old Goatie had the urge to join them, down on their level ...so to speak. Risking life & limb (and my hair) I sat down in the hay to get a goat's eye view of their 'world' ...
Must explain ...we sheared goats Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. A Sheep Graziers Alert was issued for Thursday & Friday ~ Warning of stock losses from very cold strong winds & heavy rain. Naked goats are most at risk in these weather extremes. Very Scary Stuff when you have about 670 nek-kid animals to keep out of the weather.
The rain was needed, we have a mixed farming operation, besides the Angora goats we run Merino sheep and grow wheat, barley, oats which are due for harvest late in November ..had we not gotten around an inch of rain out of this weather event ...there would be no harvest & the sheeps would have had lots of tucker. (sheeps - yeah - I like to think of them as individuals so refer to them in the 'plural')
Australia is a land of extremes and this Weather Event was awesome. There was snow in areas where just one week earlier there were Bush Fires. People ...we are half way through Spring and snow is not the norm at this time of year. Luckily we didn't get snow but we had temps in the 30's (celcius) or about 82 degrees F in the other measure only a day before this weather hit & we went down to 4 degrees C or 40 degrees F with a wind chill factor that made it feel like freezing.
Well, enough of the boring stuff... time to get down and dirty...
and....hey, that hay smelt sooo sweet...
Catch ya all, next time.... 'Old Goatie'
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