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Finally done with lambing! Jura had a single black ewe lamb tonight. This is my only black Border Leicester ewe lamb this year. She’s not up yet, but she looks pretty nice already. Lambing stats: Average gestation was 147.2 days. 10 ewes went at 147 days, 1 at 146, 3 at 148, and 1 at 149...

Day off (from the paid job) today. I had a slow start, but managed to drag myself outside to be productive eventually. I got 4 rams sheared. They were due and Stanley is leaving this weekend so he needed a spa day. He looks really nice and his fleece is lovely. I was going to stop at the 4...

Freyja is back to acting normal, her baby is fine. He completely ignores me now. I did castrate him the other day. Jura is the last to lamb and she’s due on Wednesday. I looked at who’s related to who briefly this morning. There’s 16 Border Leicester ewes. That’s including a handful that may...

Sheep are surprisingly resilient. Assuming she can get through the shock and fights off any infection, she’s likely to recover nicely. I had a Shetland lamb years ago that had her shoulder (as in all of her shoulder muscle as well as the bone) eaten off of her. It was an extremely long...

I may have my yearling Shetland ram sold. I’m not going to believe it until he’s actually loaded on the buyers trailer though. Buyers have been notoriously flaky. I’m meeting this guy in Lexington which is a couple hours away. I wasn’t thrilled with the idea of delivering, but he’s paying extra...

I think my stint as substitute sheep mom may be over already. Freyja’s baby has a full belly and refused the bottle last night and this morning.

Freyja seems to be doing ok. I’ve been keeping an eye on her via the cameras while at work. While she’s been staying mostly in the barn, she’s been eating. Her temp last night was still slightly high, it was much better than the 105 temp she had on Sunday. Her baby is definitely not getting...

Oftentimes, the problem with trying to leave lambs that need supplementation is that mom has *just* enough milk to make them stubborn about taking the bottle. I had that issue with Xena and her little triplet brother last year. He only wanted real boobie-juice and he’d rather starve than try...

Freyja got sick on Sunday. Mastitis. It seemed to be only on one side, but I’ve been keeping an eye on her baby and he was a little gaunt this morning. I warmed up some Jersey milk and he sucked down 6 or 7 ounces without hesitation. She’s doing better today, ran right out to the feeder when...

She’s 11. She still has her molars which helps. She will be with until the day she dies.

I got a fence up and put the ewes out on grass for a few hours today. I get yelled at a lot.

Freyja is perfectly content with her 1 baby. I think Freyja needs some dentures! Poor old thing has no teeth in the front anymore. I turned my poop mountain. The compost is looking good. It’s almost done cooking. Twist looks good in purple! He’s wearing the shirt to keep his...

Just got home and checked on Freyja. She’s fine, her baby is fine. It’s a boy. 😢 I *really* wanted one last girl out of her, crossbred or not. I’ll wether him that way I can love on him all I want. Nothing obviously wrong with the dead lamb, also a ram. Looking back at saved pictures from...

Freyja lambed. I’m at work so I just discovered them on the camera. She had twins, but one looks stillborn. It’s flat out on its side and I haven’t seen any movement. The other lamb is up and lively. Unfortunately, the fact she lambed today means that they are Border Leicester/Shetland...

Mr Twister had to go to the vet this morning. I found a wound on his chest last night. Had to have happened on Wednesday. He either ran into something next door or the JRT bit him. The JRT harasses him and goes after him when he’s trying to go through doors. My money is on a bite. This vet...

I walked into the barn the other night and a Shetland lamb was bouncing around on Minnie’s back. She stood up when I came in and the lamb went for a little ride. Bramble, one of my stalkers

Right on schedule, Isla lambed at 1230 this morning. I’m pretty sure he’s actually a giraffe. His back end still needs to straighten up, but he’s got a lot of potential. And can we just talk about his ears for a minute! Perfection. He and Cyril are my 2 probable grow-out/breeding ram...

We’ve got storms rolling through today with a chance of tornadoes. Last I heard, we are outside the of the high risk area though. I woke up earlier than usual this morning and the sky was looking ominous so I did chores early. I got everything done before it really started raining. Of course...

That’s exactly what she was doing. She’s a helicopter mom for the first few weeks.

Bradford pears are invasive and they’ve been planted everywhere. And they don’t even produce fruit. I’ve talked to attorney’s office a couple times and the explained the process so while it’s annoying, it shouldn’t be too horrible. Of course *everyone* at work has now heard the police were...