The cows favorite day!! Monthly Hay and Straw delivery

My Dad helping me move this months Hay and Straw delivery from Ironside and Sons

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The Barn unloaded in the light of the next day plus snow

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Rafters

Doors and tubes

 Plus six large crates of fixtures and fittings. That's what £16,000 gets you!!!

At Last the barn appears

Unloading the barn off Robinsons lorry



Me and Dad checking the bits

 

 

Finally the barn from Robinsons has been delivered, its taken nearly two years for this!!! Have the road in, the site levelled and now the barn so all I need is it putting up!!! that will have to wait a bit longer as the man picked to erect the barn has recently had surgery on his neck. Hopefully it will be up for lambing in April.

 

 

(these pics were taken by A Ingram of Islandcrofters.blogspot.com fame)

Moving the Cocks in

Cuckoo and Cuckoo/Red Cockerels

White and Cuckoo Cockerels

 

 

 

Moving the Scots Dumpie cockerels in to their winter cages. To give them and the hens a rest before the breeding season. Will have fertile eggs for sale once I have hatched some for my self, if anyone is interested?

The vet's check up for Ruby

 The vet introducing himself to Ruby

The Check up

Pregnancy test



Don't now what the fuss is about !!!!

Ruby had her check up from the vet today. Robert (the vet) gave her the once over and she feels fine and is about four months pregnant. The calf feels normal. So all good.

Alls well with Ruby

Ruby enjoying a back rub

Enjoying the sun and some breakfast

Giving Ruby a check up after her ditch dive

Enjoying being in the cattle shed

Ruby and her sister Rosanna seem to have settled in to life in the cattle shed. Ruby looks non the worst for the time in the ditch or the dragging out of the ditch by the digger. Am going to get the vet out next week to check her over and check her unborn calf. She enjoyed her breakfast and the hay so I doubt there is anything wrong!!

One heck of a lucky escape for Ruby

Well what a day at 15.40 this afternoon we had a visit from John Angus Campbell to tell me one of my cows had been pushed by Eric the bull into a ten foot deep ditch. On arriving on the seen I managed to turn her round, but the force and temperature of the water made it impossible for her to climb out, so after much pushing and coaxing on my part, with me waist deep in ice cold water, it was decided to call for help. With a huge sigh of relief a man with a digger arrived and we managed to lift her out.A big thank you to Angus MacKay and sons who sent out a digger  and driver. With more help from Jack Cox and Murdo MicIver after my Range Rover refused to start, we got her into a trailer and back home into a well strawed cattle shed at 18.30 in the pitch blackness of a Lewis nite. Hopefully no Pneumonia for either of us!!!!