Dog Tuckers

Dog Tucker you're wondering? What's that? Tucker is a common Kiwi slang term for food. So you have plenty of tucker in the fridge, and its also what dogs eat. So Dog Tuckers on a high country sheep station are old, sick, lame sheep that you butcher for the dogs to eat. Last week Angel and I killed 8 one morning. So the dogs will be fed well. We cut it up and freeze the meat. They get fed it raw, along with normal dry dog food. The past week has just been a lot of feeding, with some fencing and other odd jobs thrown in.
I did manage to go for a hike Saturday after getting the feeding done. Up the Cameron Creek to a Station hut called the Highland Home. Cameron Creek forms a boundary for the station and the hut is perhaps 5-6 miles from headquarters. It was built in the 30's I think and has been refurbished on the inside. The outside however they have left original. So it doesn't look like much but is very nice inside.
We're getting ready to start scanning the ewes this weekend. The vet will scan them and we'll separate them according to whether they are "open" no lamb, single bearing, or twin bearing. The twin bearing ewes will start getting priority feed. Scanning is a sign of the looming spring. Next step after that is shearing which will start the first of September. The days are getting noticeably longer, some birds that summer in the mountains here are returning, and I think everyone is looking forward to the end of winter!!