It was actually hot here today ...
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It was actually hot here today ...
| Sun, 01-13-2013 - 10:40pm |
well, some of it might also have been because we were scanning the sheep to see if they're pregnant and they didn't want to co-operate so I had to pretty much push and pull them into the head gate 
. It was 12 C outside and it felt like about 30 C inside wrestling sheep. I kept pushing my sleeves up, but they kept falling down. Urgh, it was awful. We ended up checking 73 ewes and 13 of them are open, so they're going to the auction tomorrow morning.
Tonight it's supposed to go back down to about -11 C (more seasonal temperatures then it was today).
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12C does sound hot for your area at this time of the year Brigitte, it can't have been pleasant working with the sheep in those conditions.
We have had hot weather too, very hot, with record high temperatures. We went to visit my mother on the weekend, it was 43C/109F where Mum lives and there have been a lot of bushfires in the area. No lives lost, but huge losses of livestock, it is very sad. Night after night we have seen farmers on TV having to dispose of dead livestock or shoot those that have been badly injured. So tragic.
Elaine
Even if the sheep could get through, where do the insurance companies think these sheep could run to? The fires to our north are covering an area of 40000 hectares/98842 acres. It's horrendous. I'm just watching a couple from this area returning back to their farm to find absolutley everything is lost.
Here is a photo taken from our house in 2003.
Elaine
I should have named that photo differently I guess, lol. It was taken out the front of our house Brigitte, we live on a corner and there are paddocks/fields on the the other side of the embankment. A couple of days after that was taken, when fires were still burning in the area, the Army came in and widened a path on the top of the embankment to give us a larger fire break.
We had our hottest January day on record here on Friday, 42C/107F and Sydney had it hotest ever day on record, 46C/115F.
Elaine