Category: Farm Life
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Green Grass
FINALLY! The snow is melting and the grass is growing. We are a month away from lambing, so getting the pasture up and ready for sheep is critical. Prompt: Today’s theme is the color green. Make a photograph dominated by green and post it. Continue reading
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Protective Dogs
Winnie is in with the rams, and she’s doing a very good job. She is our most aggressively protective dog, but we really appreciate her attention to her sheep. Continue reading
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The Shearing Is Done
I’m a bit late with my blogging, but we finished sheep shearing for the year. Several fleeces were sold right off the shearing floor. Skirting will start in the next few weeks, and the wool will be up on our site for sale later. Continue reading
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Getting Ready for Shearing
We got the shearing setup built yesterday. We rebuild the catch pen and shearing floor each year under the hay barn. As always, it looks like we’ll have snow and rain for shearing. I am, yet again, scrambling to see if I can keep all the sheep dry. We will shear 137 sheep this year… Continue reading
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March Snows
It’s March, and we’ve received even more snow. This is the lane under the hay barn. The fence on the right is four feet tall! So far, the rams haven’t decided to try and escape. The hay seems to be keeping them occupied. It’s going to be a very muddy spring when all of this… Continue reading
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Black Welsh Mountain Sheep in Snow
This is what the front yard looks like today. We finally had to extend the fences. This is one of the adult rams, contemplating trying to jump out. So far, only 1 ram lamb has escaped, but I bet more would’ve been out by tomorrow if we didn’t shore up the fence. Continue reading
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Afternoon Snow
I sure hope the rams and ram lambs (in the left and right pens, respectively) don’t decide to go walking today! There was a path up this aisle this morning. Continue reading
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More Snow!
We got another eight (or more) inches of snow, and it’s still snowing! Sheep tend to walk in the same trails once they’ve made them. Here you can see the flock making their way up to the feeder for hay. Some of the lambs have been smart enough to climb the snow drifts. This one’s… Continue reading
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Digging Sheep Paths
We had a lot of snow last night. Our power was out for about eight hours. It’s a heavy, wet snow, and it warmed up enough to fall off the barn all at once. I sure hope there were no sheep under that. They usually run to the end of the pen to wait it… Continue reading
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Ewe Lambs and Retired Ewes
Here you can see some of our ewe lambs and retired ewes in the winter pens. Everyone has settled into their new pens now, and they’re happy as long as the hay keeps coming. Continue reading
