Bringing up the ewes and lambs
Lambing is closely followed by docking the new lambs. This means literally docking the tails, to protect against flystrike, earmarking and paint branding to indicate ownership, castrating to make management easier and to create better meat quality, vaccinating to protect health, and a look at each and every lamb for problems to address. It makes for long days, but also adds camaraderie and teamwork to our hard-working crew! A good lunch is sure to appear. No one has trouble sleeping at the end of the day
docking crew at Cherry Grove
end of the line, Dinkum Docker, Maeve branding
Pepe and Renee tailing and branding
Pepe, Renee, Siobhan
dances in dust
Eamon tossing lamb
Juan catching lamb
Siobhan and Bubba, docking
ewes and lambs, mothering up
Ladder Ranch
