It’s been a long week. A tough week. Still not feeling on top of the lingering chest cold and then of course everything changes so quickly when it’s breeding and butcher season. Kyra’s Boy’s departure left a big gap as he was always our meeter and greeter at the house, and then to top it [...]
Archive for the ‘Lambs’ Category
Long Week Over
Posted in Farming, Food, LaMancha Goats, Lambs, Sheep, tagged butcher, Kyra's Boy on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lamb Shearing
Posted in Farm, Fiber, Lambs, Sheep, tagged fleece, shearing on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had an absolutely gorgeous weekend! Amazing weather, cool but sunny. It really feels like autumn has arrived. It was the perfect time to have Emily the shearer join us for the fall lamb shearing.
Here Persimmon is in our shearing “waiting” room. She is not a lamb, but she is half Border Leicester and [...]
Hamish the Lamb
Posted in Farm, Lambs, Sheep, tagged Coopworth sheep, Lambs on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The lambs are growing incredibly fast and having a great time playing follow-the-leader and Red Rover in the paddock. Hamish, one of Kate’s boys, finds a congenial spot for a rest after a frolic with his friends.
Hamish and his brother Macbeth (named after one of my favorite literary detectives created by M.C. Beaton) are two [...]
Babies everywhere!
Posted in Family, Farm, Lambs, Weather, tagged Lambs on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been awhile since I have posted. I am listening to the rain pour down on the metal roof and the thunder and lightning are quite entertaining! The last few weeks have been totally insane. We had our final lambs two weeks ago today. Fuzzy Lumpkin had triplets as a [...]
Raven’s Morning Boy
Posted in Lambs, Sheep, tagged Coopworth sheep, lambing, Lambs on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
With only two more ewes to go we have doggedly continued the lamb watch… each night I try to keep myself up past 11 p.m. so that I can go out and make sure no one is in labor. Last night I waited until one of the hard rain showers had passed and headed [...]
Playtime @ the Rock
Posted in Farming, Lambs, Sheep, tagged Lambs on April 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So it finally stopped raining and it’s playtime! The big rock is again the center of activity in our winter paddock. The five oldest lambs are taking a break from their run-and-chase-game to find out what I am doing… their mothers are busy at the feeder, and the youngest two lambs are hanging [...]
Zach the Ram Lives On!
Posted in Farming, Lambs, Sheep, tagged Border Leicester sheep, Coopworth sheep, Lambs on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally think that we will have a few days’ break from lambing now. After last Sunday’s early morning twins we had an early flurry… seven lambs so far. 4 rams and 3 ewes.
My happiest moment came early on Tuesday morning when I arrived in the greenhouse at 5 a.m. to do chores [...]
Lambs at Last!
Posted in Farming, Lambs, Sheep, tagged Coopworth sheep, lambing, Lambs on March 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had a wonderful day over at Hatchtown Farm’s shearing yesterday. It was a disappointing day since the sun never did come out and it was a bit misty, but the barn was dry and full of great people visiting and helping out! Emily the shearer put in a long day and Pam [...]
Chili Lambing
Posted in Cooking, Farm, Lambs, Sheep, tagged chili on March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
O.K., I am not going to complain about the snow anymore! The snow day today did do me a huge favor: I had the time to make a huge pot of chili.
Just before lambing and kidding I always like to make a gigunda pot of stew, chili or soup to freeze in small [...]
Weather and Shearing
Posted in Lambs on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In order to get our market lambs ready to go, we called our friend the shearer, Emily, to come over and give the 6 of them haircuts on Sunday. They had been in one of our greenhouses, so they were nice and dry and ready to go. None of them were thrilled so [...]
