Sheep

The mountains in California are very beautiful aren't they? They are very different to the mountains here. The Californian mountains are higher and they look drier also. We have sheep on our mountains and they eat the young trees so they can't grow. Our hills have more grass than trees because of the sheep. There are mountains in Malawi as well so I will take the photos from the Wanderers to show the Guides in Malawi. I haven't been backpacking yet with the Brownies here. At Christmas I will fly up and join the Guides and I hope I will go camping with the Guides. I haven't had a trail lunch like the Wanderers. It does look like food for explorers because it is easy to carry and full of energy. Thank you for sharing your trip with us!

I want to show you our sheep. Dad has to trim their feet and because it was dry he did it today. It started to rain but he finished them all. Dad thinks there maybe more goats than sheep in Malawi but we will find out.

The first photo is a ewe we bred ourselves. She has a Suffolk dad and a Texel mum. She had her first lambs this year and this is how dad holds them to trim their feet.

The second photo is one of this years lambs. He has a Scottish Blackface dad and he will go to the market before we go to Malawi to be sold.

The third photo is a wether. That means he has been castrated and he will go as hogget this year because he is over a year old.

The last picture is Dad trimming the feet. The hard bits grow round the side and hurt the ewe so they get cut off.

Next week the blog is going to the Otava school Mikkeli, Eastern Finland (20 seconds to find Helsinki but no Mikkeli on my globe!) I wonder if they will have lamb or hogget this week.

Thank you and goodbye Wanderers in California and hello Mikkeli!

VEG