new life on Oude Wellington

Saved from becoming biltong our newest edition are two lovely young ostriches. Finally a male for our two lonely female "aunties" who have resorted to picking each others tail feather.
Charlene Burger gave us these two and a couple of silky chickens as they had no more space for the animals on their small holding in Citrusdal. So off we drove to Citrusdal with a big horse box (thank you Adriaan for kinly allowing us to use the box!)trailing behind us. The scenic route took us 3 hours and more then 2 hours to catch the two in the open large camp.But with the help of some enthusiastic very "relaxed" farm workers they overpowered the two and carried them into the horse box. Charlene's mum spend a long time calming the two ruffed up birds and watered their heated bodies until they had calmed down and we could return to the farm.
I learned my limits when trying to reverse with a trailer, I had never done that before and did not do too well- but we managed and after delivering the box back to Adriaan and feeding the animals Sydney saved the day cooking a good meal.

Harvest is progressing well with a bumper a crop of 12.410 of Chardonnay- our best harvest in years (in 2010 it was only 3.325 tons and in 2009 8.9 tons) Being a strictly organic block we are particular happy about the outcome of the hard work.
Well done to all involved!!