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Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
1) OK, for one, I am not going to say "I think so and so is in labor" until I actually see a baby sticking it's nose out! 
Nothing yet....
2) All our new fencing is WIPED OUT AGAIN!
Tim did a major rescue operation across the creek.
Last night after my report of bringing everybody up, well the barn was full of our guys and we went to bed. I checked on the preggies about 10:30. Then Tim got up about midnight to check. He came back in and said nobody was having babies but he was going to go check on the guys on the other side of the creek because the creek was up REALLY high. Of course it was still pouring hard at this point. I think I fell back to sleep. About an hour later he came back in, soaking wet and said he had to do a major rescue across the creek.! He had driven around to the neighbors and walked down to the other side of the paddock. Almost the entire paddock was filled with water! The shed had 2 feet in it. The horses were standing in water, and my Jacob wether Aidin was standing on top of a mound of dirt with water up to his belly!!!! He went into the water and grabbed Aidin by the horns and basically swam with him to the highest part and tied him to the fence. The horses were running around like crazy in the water all freaked out. The donkey was stranded and Tim grabbed him around the head and floated him back to the fence line. Then he went up in the neighbor's hayloft and brought down two bales of hay to lure the horses over. They came over and everybody started eating hay. There was about 12' of dry ground along the fence but it went the whole way down the fence line, so they had a place to stay that was not flooded.
So after about an hour, Tim decided he would get in the car and go back over and just stay there until the worst was over. But when he went over, it had stopped raining and the creek was already starting to recede. So this morning when I went out, I took a look down by the creek and saw the horses and the sheep and the donkey running around outside the paddock. So I figured the gate was down. So we went back down there and all the new fencing on both sides of the creek are wiped out. Jacob's beach is a wash but their shelter is still standing. The fence along there though is down. And the big round bales on both sides of the creek that we just put out are gone.
So we brought the solar charger down and put up electric tape so the horses can't get out again. Trying to use these floodplain paddocks is insane. But we have to use them because we have so many darned animals.
So that's the saga. Now I have to go back out and feed, because we haven't even done that yet. I can get the Finn sheep back on Finn Mountain and that will free up that stall. But the Jacob's won't be able to go anywhere for a while.
Nothing yet....2) All our new fencing is WIPED OUT AGAIN!
Tim did a major rescue operation across the creek.Last night after my report of bringing everybody up, well the barn was full of our guys and we went to bed. I checked on the preggies about 10:30. Then Tim got up about midnight to check. He came back in and said nobody was having babies but he was going to go check on the guys on the other side of the creek because the creek was up REALLY high. Of course it was still pouring hard at this point. I think I fell back to sleep. About an hour later he came back in, soaking wet and said he had to do a major rescue across the creek.! He had driven around to the neighbors and walked down to the other side of the paddock. Almost the entire paddock was filled with water! The shed had 2 feet in it. The horses were standing in water, and my Jacob wether Aidin was standing on top of a mound of dirt with water up to his belly!!!! He went into the water and grabbed Aidin by the horns and basically swam with him to the highest part and tied him to the fence. The horses were running around like crazy in the water all freaked out. The donkey was stranded and Tim grabbed him around the head and floated him back to the fence line. Then he went up in the neighbor's hayloft and brought down two bales of hay to lure the horses over. They came over and everybody started eating hay. There was about 12' of dry ground along the fence but it went the whole way down the fence line, so they had a place to stay that was not flooded.
So after about an hour, Tim decided he would get in the car and go back over and just stay there until the worst was over. But when he went over, it had stopped raining and the creek was already starting to recede. So this morning when I went out, I took a look down by the creek and saw the horses and the sheep and the donkey running around outside the paddock. So I figured the gate was down. So we went back down there and all the new fencing on both sides of the creek are wiped out. Jacob's beach is a wash but their shelter is still standing. The fence along there though is down. And the big round bales on both sides of the creek that we just put out are gone.
So we brought the solar charger down and put up electric tape so the horses can't get out again. Trying to use these floodplain paddocks is insane. But we have to use them because we have so many darned animals.
So that's the saga. Now I have to go back out and feed, because we haven't even done that yet. I can get the Finn sheep back on Finn Mountain and that will free up that stall. But the Jacob's won't be able to go anywhere for a while.
I went to my fiber mill field trip and when I came home Harriett had given birth to her single lambie. Yay! I think she was born right before we checked on here though because she was still a little wet. But she was nursing away! They are both doing GREAT! See my lambing thread for pics!
