Lambs, not

More waiting again!  HoneyBea and her ewe lamb BabyBea are doing really well.  We docked and tagged the little one yesterday afternoon and found that she had gained over 2.25 lbs. since her birth.  So she is doing well.  All the other ewes are looking quite overloaded with lambs, but no one is showing any [...]

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Another successful shearing

Today we went over to Hatchtown Farmto help out with the shearing of their 15 ewes.  There were lots of great people there and, as usual, we had more food than we could shake a stick at!  Emily did a great job at de-fleecing the girls and then we had a lovely meal.  The day [...]

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In the company of friends

Both human and 4-legged! As opposed to last year’s shearing, we had a gorgeous day Saturday.  None of those bitter cold temperatures, and what little wind there was, was quite pleasant.  Emily arrived about 10 and we got Fuzzy Lumpkin out onto the shearing floor.  (We usually do the white sheep first, so there aren’t [...]

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Merry Christmas, 2011

From all of us at Ruit Farm, we wish our friends, neighbors, family and readers a very safe and Merry Christmas!  Our girls happily posed for some holiday shots.

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Autumn and breeding

Autumn is here, although without the usual color.  Some people are saying that it’s because we had so many high winds over the summer that the leaves began to detach and so started the dying process too early to get any really nice color.  Well, whether or not we have a colorful fall, breeding time [...]

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Summer is over

It really is.  The practical end of the summer came too fast, and back to work we went.  I am grateful in these crazy times to have a job.  It will be a new challenge and different for me this year, but I am looking forward to it. Hurricane Irene hit us much more gently [...]

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Don’t do this

I know, makes us all want to go out and do whatever that is, right away!  But seriously, we have been trying to get our breeding ewes down to the pasture for the past two weeks and it just has seemed to all go wrong.  Friday I was so sure was going to be the [...]

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Mother’s Day weekend

At least one day out of the weekend was sunny and clear.  The breezes yesterday moved just enough to keep the black flies mostly at bay (except for John, who seems to be a blackfly magnet).  We always have a list of farm work that needs doing longer than what we ever have time for, [...]

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Beezus and Ramona tag

Sunday while I was working outside and waiting for SnowPea’s kids to arrive, I decided it was time to get our yearling ewes Beezus and Ramona out of the mom’s pen and in with the other unbred group.  They don’t really need the extra feed and it would also save some money.  Beezus and Ramona [...]

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HoneyBea gets into the act

HoneyBea had her lambs this evening.  A ram and a ewe, just like last year.  The ram was over 12 pounds and I think he was giving her a little bit of a hard time.  I thought we were going to have to help him out.  But she was a canny girl:  when I went [...]

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