It is shaping up to be one of those days. The vet is expected any minute to do the final health checks on the animals going to France and Belgium. Then we are going to do the DNA bloods on our embryo transfer animals and their dams and sires. Yesterday we collected this group from various other fields so they have all got to go back to different places, mistakes will be made! Meanwhile got to do more halter training on the show group and get the sale group ready for the SWAG sale SWAG
In between must go to the blood nurse at the quack’s to get my bloods done for my appointment with the diabetes consultant next week in Exeter. You are supposed to fast and so far today I have managed it. But I have to keep going until 9.40 without a hypo…have cans of coke in handbag just in case.
The BAS AGM was an unexpectedly peaceful affair, pretty dull really, with just the one altercation. The lunch was absolutely dreadful, hopefully someone on the new board will have some interest in food, as at the moment they are completely useless. They have had several barbecues at shows and the food at those has been similarly dismal.
We had a really busy Sunday with a client on the farm learning how to do injections, toenail trimming etc. We did two matings to let them hear the great alpaca orgling sound. And then scanned one of the female fields to make sure they had held their pregnancies – one out of 30 had dropped it, all the rest were positive so we were very pleased with that. Then a possible buyer, her husband and parents tipped up to look at the sale field. Will they buy? Who knows…we shall see!