I was walking the fields yesterday evening and came across a dead roe deer in behind a load of gorse bushes. It was very dead and pretty rotten so I brought home its skull with antlers attached. I haven’t seen the pair of roe deer for ages and suspect that their untimely demise might be something to do with a very large field of maize next door. None of us have seen any foxes recently either so maybe someone has got them as well.
We have gone through all the girls over the last two days and another eleven have come off the breeding sheets as they are over 60 days – we are right at the end now as normally we stop breeding at the end of October. Chas and Andrew got a serious cloud of green over them twice from two particularly arsey girls they were scanning. I hid behind the fridge.
Meanwhile back in the office I’ve been dividing up the fibre samples and labelling the bags so that they can all go off to NewZealand tomorrow for sampling. Oh for an EPD scheme in the UK, I’ve got over five years of fibre samples from our herd and it would be very interesting to get someone to crunch the numbers.
lesley beazer –
WOT is EPD. ???