Farm Friends by Rebecca Johnson

Author:Rebecca Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning I am up earlier than everyone else because I have to feed Flossy. That’s what I have named my little lamb. As I am making up her bottle I start to think about how busy I am going to be today with feeding all of the animals.

I decide that to save time what I should do is make up all Flossy’s formula now so that I just have to fill a bottle when she needs it. I search around in the cupboards (I have to be quiet so I don’t wake everyone else up) until I find a big plastic jug. That should do the trick nicely.

I mix up the formula to the line in the bottle and pour it into the jug. I do it five times so there will be enough milk in there until tomorrow morning. I make up some for her bottle now and put the rest in the fridge. That will make my day (and Mrs Brown’s) a whole lot easier.

I head down to the shed. As I am sitting feeding Flossy, her mum feeds her other two babies. Shredder, Maisy’s cat, sits purring on the bale of hay right next to me. She likes me because I bring her a saucer of milk. I think that feeding first thing in the morning is going to be my favourite time of the day. All of the animals are really calm, and if I’m very quiet they move about me like I’m not here.

I look up to see the large white duck come out from her nest behind the barrel. She must be off for her morning swim. As I am watching, four sunshine-yellow ducklings appear behind her. I gasp with delight. Suddenly a tiny hen chick pops out. It races to catch up with the ducklings, then another, then another. The whole procession is followed by a very proud mother hen.

Mrs Brown will be very pleased. She has four new ducklings and eight new chicks, with two mothers to look after them.

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