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Lambs

Sheep (and llama) Update

May 19, 2007

Marilyn had a little ram lamb, in the same pattern of most of the other lambs of the season, moorit badger-faced. Marilyn is June’s twin, and too was on probation with us. She had a single ewe lamb two years ago when Kevin and Valerie were farm sitting as we’d gotten sent out of the [...]

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Farming is Hard

May 8, 2007

It’s really hard, right now. We lost a llama yesterday, so suddenly that I can hardly believe it happened. It’s hard to even write about it, but I guess I want to document it in case someone else has something similar happen. On Saturday, Vinnie had a lamb, the first one in the pen with [...]

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Minxy Delivers

May 1, 2007

That’s my girl, giving me my first two ewe lambs of the season. Perfect! My favorite and most tame sheep gives me girls, yay! She’ll show them the ropes, and keeping them tame won’t be hard at all. Way to go, Minxy! She had them both cleaned off and claimed, great for a first time [...]

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Gentle Giants

April 30, 2007

Kaytla, the ewe who had triplets, one still born, looks like she is developing mastitis. I noticed that one teat was twice the size of the other, and that both lambs were nursing on the other side. I asked on the ISBONA list to make sure I should intervene, and milked her out by hand [...]

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And another ram lamb!

April 24, 2007

Boy! What is it with us and boys this year?! Frank had to leave early this morning, so we were up and about way earlier than I usually am. I couldn’t resist walking out for a lamb check, though, and sure enough, there was Fiona, cleaning off this little guy. Yup, we saw huge horn [...]

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Two more ram lambs

April 23, 2007

Kaytla started separating herself from the rest of the pen yesterday morning, though she did come out when the grain actually hit the feeder. We knew then, though, that she was probably going to lamb that day, as she never hides her leadersheep self, big bossy lady that she is. I must have done twenty [...]

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Lambing, Shearing, Clearing

April 22, 2007

What a day we had yesterday. Even this morning, we are still exhausted, and that’s with Valerie coming over to help. We are just absolutely wiped out. We started the day with the first lamb of the season. We went out in the morning to let the chickens out, and Frank came back in to [...]

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