Winter is here the grass will not grow much at all. The days are short in sunshine and the nights are cold.
The ewes and their lambs have been eating very short grass all autumn and they have lost condition. They have also got WORMS. Not the good worms we find in the vegetable patch, these worms are nasty and suck the blood from the sheep.
The sheep get weaker and weaker and they can die.
We have a special spoonful of medicine that can fix this. The sheep need a drench.
Dad, Mum and I along with Gibson and Bear are drenching all the ewes.
I love to help. I am getting to be big help especially when I have Gibson by my side.
With so much to do we have morning tea in the paddock, a little picnic. It is a bit chilly!
The sheep are taken to a new paddock, the drench will hopefully kill off the nasty worms, and the sheep will be well again.
A big day in the sheep yards and paddock today and more of it tomorrow!
