It was here a minute ago…

I have to give those goatie girls a lot of credit… they made short work of our friend’s Christmas tree.  I went out bright and early to get the girls fed this morning, and this is what I found.  Not much left, and they were hard at work on it even then.  And when Zorro [...]

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Ewes on the road

This weekend was designated as “get the sheep home from the pasture down the street” weekend.  I am always tempted to put this off as long as possible as I always think of it as an exhausting activity.  It’s really only an hour or two of work, but I can’t do it alone so I [...]

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Coopworth ewes assert their independence, film at 11!

Another crazy 24 hours here at the Ruit Farm.  Yeesh!  It hasn’t stopped since 3 a.m.  Yesterday I separated the last buckling from his mother, so when I went to bed at 10:30, there was some calling and baabaa-ing and maa-maaing, but I ignored and went to sleep.  Around 2:30 a.m. I began to come [...]

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Donkey Trek

We have been discombobulated here on the farm, what with the animal nursing and crazy weather.  It’s been an intention of ours to get our guard donkey, Jingle, down to the pasture to be with the rams for quite some time.  Since the rams had to come home because of Kyra’s Boy’s leg issues, we [...]

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