My volunteering.

[traveller]

Hi all,
Being retired for a year I thought I would take on a new challenge to fill my time, so remote from all those years in the motor trade as a mechanic I volunteer at Wimpole hall ( NT ) in the home farm. I get there at 8.00 and get stuck in mucking out the pigs with three other volunteers. This normally takes just over two hours with an half an hour cleaning around the top yard, then morning break. At the moment it's lambing time with over three hundred ewes about to birth it's full on. Yesterday I was helping a young trainee vet sorting out the ewes nails, rear end and worming while I held the ewe against the metal rails, really hard work. Once done the ewe is then let out with her new one into the field behind the farm. Lunch from 13.00 to 14.00 and then cleaning out the new birth pens that were vacated by the ewes we let out. Go round feeding, watering and generally making sure all the baby lambs and mums are all ok and looking out for ewes that are about to give birth. I finish at 17.00, normally miss afternoon break as the time just flies.