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How awful that foot and mouth has broken out. I hope that the powers-that-be are able to contain it! It would be dreadful if farmers had to have all of their animals slaughtered. Not only is that a sad thing to endure - but it would ruin them!

Everything is tied up. We aren't even allowed to walk our animals down a road in order to shift them to a new field. I'm so thankful that we moved Torf's harem the other day - they were oot of grass in the field across the road! And I'm glad we got Mr. Busy Ram Lamb up to the other farm with the other boys. He was proposing marriage to the yows... and they were wanting to accept! I guess the days are short enough now to get them hearing wedding bells.

We can't sell any animals either. So we have no idea what is going to become of our lambs - Erlend says we'll have to just sell them to the slaughterhouse which means we might not get very good prices for them. Auctioning is the best way to sell them usually...

We were heading to the East Mainland Show to observe how the sheep were shown in the ring - but that part of the show is not going to happen. Erlend says that our Dounby Show might not even happen. He said it will take probably a month for animal movements to get back to normal - assuming, that is, that the foot and mouth has successfully been contained.

We have cattle on rented land out in Rendal. Hmmmm. This is going to be interesting when it comes time to shift them - because we can't shift them!

I feel very badly for the farmers who have loads of animals that they were planning to sell soon - they won't be able to house and feed them if they can't sell them!! Erlend has been on the phone all morning talking to the cattle movement people and whatnot. And fellow farmers. Everyone in the farming community is abuzz...