The rain has started

All of a sudden the weather has changed from lovely Autumn weather to raging wind and rain. The cattle are in the shed luckily, the cows came in about 10 minutes before the rain began. We like the animals to come in with dry backs. We wormed them all last week this means that they will be worm free all Winter. Every day we will be unrolling large bales of straw to ensure the cattle have a dry clean bed to lie on. Their diet will be crushed grain and silage. The cows are be due to calve in January.It`s always exciting to see the new born calves. The mother makes a lovely quiet mooing noise as she bonds with her baby. The ducks and geese are delighted with this rain they are dabbling around all the puddles. The hens meanwhile are standing looking out of their house looking absoutly miserable. I suppose they will go on strike and stop laying eggs.