Archive for the ‘Herds and Flocks’ Category

Moving Plants

Today, I will move more plants from under the grow lights out to the Hoop House green house. I will visit the barn to check on the lambs and see if any more have arrived. I will walk one of the Great Pyrenees and the Poodle. I will gather the eggs from my over achieving […]

April 22, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
Posted in: Contemplations, Garden, Great Pyrs, Herds and Flocks

Miracle of birth

Easter Sunday welcomed another set of twin lambs. That makes 14 new born lambs in the barn. Our visiting friends got to take pictures and record the event. I got to help the Mother sheep deliver the second lamb. Mom and both twins doing good this morning. The miracle of birth is a beautiful thing.

April 21, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
Posted in: Herds and Flocks

Team Lambs

Our “Lamb Team” did good! Really, really, good!

April 21, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
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Twelve Lambs

Twelve baby lambs have arrived. There are five more Mama sheep yet to give birth. On Easter Sunday, the barn will be filled with our friends from the cities coming to visit the lambs. There is something real special about this.

April 19, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
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Triplets

Triplet lambs were born this afternoon. Next came another single lamb. Mother Ewes and babies all doing fine. My big dogs (Great Pyrenees) are happy to have something else to guard. A hot shower is a beautiful thing. It is not good for me to smell like sheep!

April 10, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
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Three more lambs

So far this morning, three more lambs have arrived. There is a set of twin ewes and one ram lamb. The lamb born yesterday is a ram. I sit in my old lawn chair and hold him. Baby lambs are fun to cuddle. His Mom munches on her ration of corn and ignores me. For […]

April 10, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
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The first lamb

Our first lamb of the season arrived this morning. Let the games begin!!

April 9, 2014 · Sarah · No Comments
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Lamb Progress

Any minute now, the lambing could begin. I will be checking the barn every two hours. The Mother sheep have fresh straw, water and hay. Some of the ewes are “bagging up” and they will be the first to be put into the jugs to await their babies. I received my first deposits on the […]

April 7, 2014 · Sarah · One Comment
Posted in: Herds and Flocks