Shearing 2011

As usual, I meant to have this post out on Monday.   Sunday was a wonderful and very successful shearing day.  As our friend Pam calls it, the harvest.  It is half of the reason we keep sheep… all the fibery goodness comes to us before lambing, and then our second batch of raw materials are [...]

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Mr. Lucky

Just a few photos of the wonderful ram, Lucky, who helped us with our breeding this autumn.  He is a Border Leicester/Coopworth cross. (His father was our first BL ram, Mr. Fright, and his mother was one of our first Coopworth ewes, Tess).  Just an all around hunky guy, with a big, gorgeous fleece.  I [...]

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Mr. Big moves on

As usual things have been crazy around the farm.  School ended last week and I have been scrambling to get ahead here at the house.  Too many things to do and not enough time!  But, we finally found a great home for our ram, Mr. Big.  He has gone to live on Bridge Farm in [...]

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Persimmon does it

Persimmon chose a beautiful afternoon on which to deliver her twins, at least a 50 degree day.  They are beautiful boys.  She of the vaginal prolapse did an amazing job, and the prolapse seems to be a non-issue now as many people had said it might be.  I was checking on her on and off [...]

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Zach the Ram Lives On!

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 and [...]

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More lambs :*)

Well, we have most of the lambs on the ground now.  The weekend was quite eventful, with both Raven and Maggie having single lambs.  Both were large; Maggie has a beautiful white ewe (with beige ear tips!) and Raven has a black ram.  Both have joined the outside group and are enjoying the slightly warmer [...]

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