LAMBS

This week looks drier, so hopefully a chance to catch-up with overdue bee jobs, but today was a day for helping with the sheep and lambs. Like most farms, lovely Penlan, home to the Quarry Bees, is an absolute mud bath right now.

The last period has seen two and a half times the normal rainfall batter already saturated fields. Ewes have had to have more time in the dry than normal, but lambs have still been born with complications and, too often, the connection with their mums has had to be severed to save and bottle rear them. Those sheep and lambs in the fields are showing clear signs of distress and physical discomfort. This sadly is the Climate Emergency writ painfully at a local scale. It’s not a normal year and sadly both farmers and livestock are suffering.