It has been a long time since I have been released from the lambing barn. Now the lambs have shot up and some are nearly as big as their mothers. It has been a difficult summer as after the blazing hot spell in late spring (what a distant memory that is now) the weather has been very unsettled. All farmers have found it hard and frustrating one moment to see their crops withering with drought and the next being unable to start harvesting because it keeps on raining - anyway the long and short of it is we were unable to make our hay and for the first time are experimenting with Haylage. 
This involved getting an amenable Contractor in to tackle our small acreage with his HUGE machines and having cut the grass, he allowed it to dry for a day, then spun it around to dry it a little more, (but not too much as it still had to be a little green)and lastly they arrived to bale it. Once it was baled then an amazing machine came in and picked a bale at a time and turned it round wrapping it up in a material like heavyweight clingfilm. These airtight bales will now ferment a little and the result (we hope) will be delicius sweet smelling winter feed.
And now we have a whole new field to put our growing lambs in.
