Hello again. Times are hard here in Greece and we would appreciate you sharing our fundraiser with your friends.

Help us to care for our rescue animals

The antibiotics seem to have cleared the mastitis and the black lamb is now feeding well from the mother.

We have just fitted docking rings to all of the male lambs to avoid any testosterone incidents later.

The alfalfa seems to have had a growing spurt and Georgos is coming tomorrow to cut it. Hopefully we will bale it by the weekend.

The corn is not yet "as high as an elephant's eye" but seems to be growing well.

And the next one please ...

Another lamb born this morning. Almost black. Found him abandoned in the middle of the field. Something obviously wrong here.



Unfortunately it appears that mum has mastitis and she won't feed him. Bottle feeding is on the agenda for a while ..

Antibiotics for mum and we're going to have to take milk from her good nipple to feed to the little man.

A fourth lamb was born this morning.

And we got to work on docking the tails of the first 3

We are doing a fundraiser to support the ongoing care of the strays and mistreated animals in our care. If you can help, or know anyone that can help. Please go to the link.

https://www.youcaring.com/other/saving-stray-and-mistreated-animals-in-crete/113007

Oh dear. Where to start?

 This is Sid

These are Avril and Michael, the wonderful people who contacted Walk with Donkeys, who contacted us and this is us picking Sid up with the amazing help of Ioannis from Neo Chorio who did the 136km trek for just the petrol money and a Campari and soda
.

We had to let Sid out on the main road and walk him down to the farm

 His hooves were in a dreadful state.

 First things first. FOOD !

 A lot of work for Uncle Les, the farrier

 Fly bites all over him

 After applying the bright yellow anti-fly and healing cream go faster stripes

 On the way to the big field

 Half way there

 Banna comes to say hello

 Banna being VERY Arabian

 Ahhhhh. My favourite photo of the year so far.

 Oh, and we got 2 goslings. They are called Viv and Norm after Viki's parentals

 This was the interesting torture bridle that the donkey arrived with. 

 And then we went to Armenoi for a drink and had this puppy (she's called Bean) foisted upon us. The larger one is Joey, my mom's dog.

First chance to update the blog for ages. In a nutshell ...

We had some weird illness amongst the chickens and lost two of them. 

The pig had 9 piglets, but we lost one of those too.

We rescued a donkey

We got two goslings

We rescued a puppy

The first feed crop is now ready to cut

The first veg has been eaten