Category: Sheep
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Lambing Is Nearly Done – We Hope!
Well, we’re near the end of lambing now. We’re at 144 days from rams out, and we have about 15 ewes looking ready to pop at any time. Here I am checking Cerridwyn for the proper positioning of her first lamb. She had an ewe. Much later, she had a breech stillborn. She never showed… Continue reading
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Sheep Trick
Some lambs start learning how to jump on their moms early. A few continue this into adulthood and stand on top of others to get the best hay. Continue reading
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Jump Starting a Lamb
Lambing is in full swing, and I thought I’d share a trick we now use on all lambs. I milk a bit of colostrum into a syringe case. Ken uses his finger to entice the lamb to nurse, then he squirts the milk into the size of the lamb’s mouth. This does several things: it… Continue reading
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Dog House? Sheep House?
The new puppy is still unnamed, but he has a buddy. Is this a sheep in a dog house, or is this a dog in a sheep house? Continue reading
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New Puppy
We picked up our new guard dog puppy this morning. He is an Akbash. The sun was unfortunately shining in the wrong place to get good pictures. All of the sheep and Kimball came to investigate, and the sheep were very concerned. They will settle down with time, but it’s been a while since they’ve… Continue reading
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Cute Lambs
This pair of twins discovered how much fun it is to sit on the high rocks above the other sheep and survey the pasture. Continue reading
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Lamb Races
Yesterday, I finally managed to film some lamb races. The early lambs are all growing very well. The morning and evening lamb races are a daily occurrence. When they’re done, there is a lot of baa-ing as the ewes try to find their babies and the lambs try to remember where their moms are. They… Continue reading
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Sheep Are Shipped, Plus More Garden Stuff
We shipped out four yearling ewes to start a new flock up in Wyoming. They escaped and headed straight for the open gate, but Ken got in front of them. We got them all caught and trailered up again eventually. Ken also cut some additional Trex railing pieces for me to mark more garden beds.… Continue reading
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The Babysitter
This ewe was recruited to watch over the lambs while their moms went out to graze. Just after I took this picture, they all took off doing lamb races. She was racing after them, trying to keep them all together. I can just see her trying to explain to the rest of the ewes why… Continue reading
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Beach Ball’s lambs
Here you can see Tanwen’s two lambs. I tag twins in the left ear and singles in the right ear. That way, if I see a lost lamb, I can easily tell whether I should be looking for another one or just for the ewe. Ewes that lose their lambs often get marked down, and… Continue reading
