Category: Farm Life
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Abstract and a Wide Load
Here’s an abstract under the big power lines that cross over the east side of our property. This is Desert Weyr Tanwen. She’ll probably be the last ewe to lamb for 2011. She is a wide load indeed! Continue reading
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Lambs and Hay
We have more new lambs! The ewe in the photo below had twins. The new hay is starting to arrive, too. This first cutting made 708 small bales. Continue reading
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Solar Panels, Ready for Hay, and My DNA Sweater
It’s time to get the solar panels up onto the shop roof for the PV system. It’s quite a long way up, and everyone is using safety harnesses and ropes. The hay barn is cleaned out and ready for new hay. It should be arriving today or tomorrow. My DNA cable-knit sweater is also coming… Continue reading
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We Lost a Ram
Our ram, Desert Weyr Kirk, died today. We had a veterinarian conduct a postmortem to find out why. He had a perforated stomach from an ulcer, and he had peritonitis. It was probably the result of the injuries he sustained in his feeder accident back in May. Continue reading
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More Winnie and Lambs
Winnie is very protective of the younger lambs. This young lamb wanted to play hop-on-Mom. The ewe is babysitting the two lambs in front while their mother is off grazing. The babysitter is their aunt. Continue reading
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Chickens, Sheep, and Nice Lambs
The dinner chickens arrived on the ninth of June, but I didn’t get a chance to get pictures until today. We lost more than usual in the first few days, but they seem to be okay now. We’ve got sheep on both sides of the center divider fence, plus a dog in each group. Winnie… Continue reading
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More Lambing and Solar Work
Desert Weyr Alice is a first-time ewe, and she seemed to be having some lambing problems. Ken was holding her head while I checked to see what she needed. Fortunately, she was quite calm during this process. She ended up having a nine-pound, five-ounce lamb with horns about half an inch long. The horns got… Continue reading
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Building a Lamb Box and a Second Solar System
We’ve had a lot of cold and rain here, and we had some lambs born in the irrigation ditch. We made a small lamb box to put the coldest lamb in for a few hours. It worked well, and by the time the lamb got warm and climbed out, everything was fine. The hay in… Continue reading
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Lambs and Dogs
Here are the triplet lambs. They’re doing well, and Mom seems to be feeding them all so far. Winnie is also doing well in protecting her new sheep. Continue reading
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Lambing, Again
We finally have our first lambs of the second batch: a set of triplet ram lambs. We put them all in a wire panel jug for a few hours, just to be sure Mom could count to three. She did seem to lose track of one when we first moved her, but she seems to… Continue reading
