77Herford Farm Zoo Journal Moving

[77Herford]

Maybe you should take your helpers to visit Clove and show them how sad she is that her baby is gone. You know just to help drive the point in just a little more about how unsafe it is to feed other peoples animals.

She is in an outside horse run connected to a stall in the barn, they are cleaning out. Once the kids were in the barn, Clove must of caught their scent outside because she came charging into her stall and kicked at the gate repeatedly trying to get to the kids and spitting. I had the remove the kids and then put Clove back into the run and close the door to the stall, so the kids could continue their work having just started. Those kids may of ruined Clove to strangers but helped me in a way as she is even more protective now.

 

[jodief100]

Maybe you should take your helpers to visit Clove and show them how sad she is that her baby is gone. You know just to help drive the point in just a little more about how unsafe it is to feed other peoples animals.

She is in an outside horse run connected to a stall in the barn, they are cleaning out. Once the kids were in the barn, Clove must of caught their scent outside because she came charging into her stall and kicked at the gate repeatedly trying to get to the kids and spitting. I had the remove the kids and then put Clove back into the run and close the door to the stall, so the kids could continue their work having just started. Those kids may of ruined Clove to strangers but helped me in a way as she is even more protective now.

I do not know much about llamas but is it possible she recognized thier scent as the ones who hurt her and her baby?

I hope they got the message. Big animal very mad at BAD kids!

 

[77Herford]

I don't know much about Llama's either but she was put out.
Those kids were exhausted by the end of their work. I'm wondering how many hours to work them as some have more activities than others. It wouldn't be fair to work one kid more hours than the others. I guess I'll email the parents.

 

[77Herford]

Just got done with emailing fiasco of the five kids parents. Starting to think this isn't worth the trouble, but my wife keeps telling me they deserve it and its free labor.
Well sounds like saturdays are going to suck big time for awhile for those kids, lol. I get them from 6 am to 6 pm as long as I give them lunch and breaks which is more than fair and lawful. I mentioned to the parents to have them properly dressed like : work boots, old genes, old shirts, work gloves or garden gloves, etc.
Had to send one kid home as he showed up in flip flops, . I was thinking " you can't be serious". He came back in baggy shorts, sneakers and one of those armless shirts, I laughed quietly to myself as he walked up the drive.
He was pretty filthy for the drive home, I even agreed to hose off his legs and arms.

 

[elevan]

Flip Flops, really? I allowed a farm visit from some friends and their kids this past summer...one of the kids had flip flops on and I made him stay in the backyard - not allowed in the field at all. His mom asked me why...get some good common sense people!

 

[77Herford]

Got some rain a couple of days ago, which was ok for rinsing away any other poison's in the grass in front forty. I moved all my ewes to the front and they were happy little sheep. They are doing great, no problems. I put in Brutis today with the ladies as some aren't bred.
Augustus is coming today along with four Dorper ewes.

Pretty windy today, the horses love it. I put them all in my largest pasture which is roughly 80 acres, with two ponds and a few smooth hills. Basically the horses get to gallop in this pen and do what horses were ment to do. They will be in the big pasture until we get heavy snowfall, along with my Premium 20 Hereford cows.

Clove is MUCH improved today so I put her in with the sheep. She likes the sheep and I think she thinks a few of the brown ewes are baby llamas, lol. She nuzzles them and sticks close by, which is good.

 

[77Herford]

Got the kids mucking out the isolation pens.

 

[jodief100]

Got the kids mucking out the isolation pens.

Sounds like Clove is doing well. It will do her some good to have babies to love on.

 

[daisychick]

Picturing Clove and the ewes hanging out. I think it will make her happy to be with the sheep.

 

[77Herford]

Yes, she seemed to be herself by evening, but I really don't know he that well yet. Some of the ewes seem fat, which is fine, of course we know about ten to fifteen of them could have lambs in a week or so.