2 Lamb transport

Today we had a very lovely send-off for two of our 2011 lambs.  They are going up state toward Greenville to live on another farm.  I am so very pleased to have been able to sell a few lambs this year for breeding stock.  Most of our lambs go to meat, which is good also, [...]

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Mae and Rhubarb

Mae is finally up and looking quite a bit better today.  Her ears are not drooping and she has been eating steadily all morning.  We will have to keep treating her for the milk fever, but I hope she is as on the mend as she seems to be. We let Lupine and her gigundas [...]

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Coming down the homestretch

It certainly has been a challenging week.  I have not had a minute to update the last few days.  The jugs continue to be full of spunky new babies.  Yesterday morning Shlomit, our second first time mom, had a single ram lamb (11.5 lbs) and then just walked away from him.  I didn’t see it [...]

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More babies

I had a really tough day with my eye, but we did have another set of triplets from Mae (who wasn’t supposed to be bred this year she is so old!) and then we had an adventure with Lupine, one of our crossbred white ewes.  John had to pull her 17 pound ewe (that may [...]

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