Category: Animal Husbandry
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Lambs, Rambo, and a New Fence
The ewes and lambs are doing well. All of the lambs are of very good quality, but we still have a lot of ewes yet to lamb. Some of the lambs are learning about the electric fences, while others just look cute as they rest. This lamb is Rambo. He is now on mom number… Continue reading
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A Pasture Scene
Here are some of our pregnant (or hopefully pregnant) ewes on pasture. Continue reading
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Lamb Bag
This is the bag I carry outside when we’re lambing. It has everything I need to handle a difficult birth, plus tagging and weighing the lambs. Prompt: Baskets, bags, and boxes: containers often go unnoticed. Make a photo focused on the container rather than the contents. Continue reading
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Waiting for Lambs
Some of the ewes yet to lamb are just huge! Meanwhile, the older lambs are really growing. Just look at that face! These are twin sister lambs out of Beatrix. Lamb gangs are forming up now, too. This ewe was checking out my lamb bag, but I caught her. Plus, a lamb was investigating the… Continue reading
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The Lambs and Me
Today, we welcomed a lovely set of twins into the world. As a bonus, here’s a self-portrait, with sheep in the background grazing on our front lawn. Continue reading
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New Fence Is Done, Plus Wide Loads
The new middle divider fence is finally finished. It looks wonderful! It’ll be a much better fence than our temporary welded wire one. The sheep, on the other hand, are looking like wide loads. I hope they lamb soon – they really are getting big! Continue reading
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Even More Snow!
It’s already May, and we’re STILL getting snow. This is unusual, even for us. Most spring snows melt the same day. As things stand, we’re feeding out a lot more hay on pasture to make sure the sheep stay warm. Even the dandelions are confused by this weather. By late afternoon, it had fortunately started… Continue reading
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Major Spring Snowstorm
Today, we got a major snowstorm. We put the ewe and her twins in a jug with a dog house to protect the little ones. We had another lamb today, too – one ewe lamb. She and her mom got the same treatment. I hope no more ewes lamb for a while. We’re supposed to… Continue reading
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Resting
The first of the 2010 lambs has finally arrived. More are on the way. I tried to get a lamb’s-eye view for this shot. Prompt: Ansel Adams said, “A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” Use your feet today to zoom or get a unique perspective. Continue reading
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First Lamb of 2010!
It’s a good thing we burned brush earlier. Today, the wind is blowing hard, with gusts up to 52 miles per hour. There’s a lot of dust in the air, and it certainly would have been too windy for a fire. Of course, one of the ewes decided this was a good time to go… Continue reading