Dogs in Snow!!!

WorkingGSD said:
It is Joe. He always manages to pull faces that make him look 90% wolf! Not lambing until the 14th April although we have had one or two early ones. Thankfully most of the livestock seem to have coped really well. We were worried because rather than the amount of actual snow it was the blowing and drifting and there were some drifts 40ft deep but having had a rough count so far all seems ok. There are some drifts we won't be able to check until a real thaw but fingers crossed it is not looking like a disaster.
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Friends of ours in Co Durham are having an awful time. They only took on the farm last year and have no money. The sheep come in to lamb but with only one barn they have to go out the next day. It has done nothing but rain and they have lost a few, apparently. Poor things.
 
Clodagh said:
Friends of ours in Co Durham are having an awful time. They only took on the farm last year and have no money. The sheep come in to lamb but with only one barn they have to go out the next day. It has done nothing but rain and they have lost a few, apparently. Poor things.
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Durham does seem to have had it really bad this year. We have snow again this morning and a few early lambs but don't start properly for a couple of weeks yet, so just hoping by then the weather has improved and there is at least a little grass. We will have to keep feeding everything though for a wee while yet.

Hubby spoke to a shepherd near Tyndrum yesterday and he says it is a total disaster this year. The lamb later than us but the amount of snow they have had, plus the tricky mountainous terrain has meant massive sheep and deer mortality this year.
 
WorkingGSD said:
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I finally got my OH in the room to look at your photos. He was most impressed with the tracks on your quad, and said this photo here needs to be your Christmas card next year, but not, perhaps, for your Scottish farming friends.
 
Clodagh said:
I finally got my OH in the room to look at your photos. He was most impressed with the tracks on your quad, and said this photo here needs to be your Christmas card next year, but not, perhaps, for your Scottish farming friends.
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The tracks really are fantastic! I will bear the Christmas card idea in mind :)
 
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