I hate it when the farm is disrupted or out of order or when things don’t feel right. For the past couple of weeks, we have confined the donkeys to the side pasture after one of them stomped Liam a few days after he was born. When we tried to reintroduce them, Ted the ram wouldn’t let them near his girls or their lambs. There was a lot of butting and kicking.

Yesterday Ted left the farm and this morning, we brought the donkeys back out. There was some posturing and snorting and Lulu was very curious about the lambs, but by late afternoon, things has finally returned to normal – our lambing process began last November. Everyone is in their rightful place, the donkeys are guard animals again, not tormentors and we have nine sheep. It all feels good, it feels right.