A surfeit of eggs

Today the chickens lay 18 eggs!!  Sam has had to make an egg basket there are so many!  We have had egg on toast, omelets, cake and pancakes - tomorrow will be quiche, meringues and bacon and egg - the day after we will probably be sick!

I’m sure I once read a book called A Surfeit of Lamphreys - it’s really bothering me because I can’t remember who it was by or what it was about!

In between eating eggs we have been doing our alpaca checks and everyone was very well behaved.  Emily, Carolyn’s daughter and not quite 5 months old, gets the prize for the very best behaved though.  She lifted her feet beautifully to have them trimmed and made no fuss whatsoever about her injections.  We have picked out Sherbert and Prudence as two who need a bit of extra feed.  We knew Sherbert, the suri, was a contender but Prue was a bit of a surprise as she was marginally overweight last month and she is always a good feeder at the trough.  I think it is down to her cria Frank who is a bit of a demanding baby and a stocky little thing.  We are now feeding Pru and Sherbert separately and that worked very well his evening as for once Prue didn’t spit at all and Sherbert just solidly ate her way through everything.  We usually have a bit of a problem checking Belinda over as she is a big nervy baby and cries throughout but today Sam held her and she seemed to like that so was no problem. After all the alpacas we did the sheep injections and feet.  We decided we needed to weigh one first as I didn’t know how much wormer to give them and the sight of Carl carrying what turned out to be a 40kg sheep onto the bathroom scales with his legs buckling and the sheep (Stumpy) sucking on his ear will remain with me for some time!

After a further egg intake we managed waste which was sorely in need of managing - I have still got Caedmon and Spike’s paddock to do tomorrow.

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