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JACB Dorper

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Here we go again...post the photos better?? :barnie

Got my one tater plot tilled and furrowed...

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Six new varieties to add to my own ones makes fifteen kinds. :D

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Rick tilled the oat chaff under on the fourth...

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Rains came and looks inviting!

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There...done deal! LMBO :lol:
 

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What beautiful critters and such a fantastic place! No wonder, all the work you do and loving to do it is easily seen...
Those heritage breeds are just amazing animals all around. I really love your turkeys.:love
 

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Oh, hey, Tara... Found you here too, eh!

:hugs Adorable to be FOUND! :D =D

What beautiful critters and such a fantastic place! No wonder, all the work you do and loving to do it is easily seen...
Those heritage breeds are just amazing animals all around. I really love your turkeys.:love

We got to add two more to the roster here in Pear-A-Dice today...and what a joy, pleasure and delight it is. Dozen years ago is when we had our last lambs (some lambs...still got two ewes...2003 and 2005) and I can say, it never gets old and no matter how much you think you forget, you got it or you don't, eh.
:old
Kinda like riding a bicycle...you can certainly fall off, but too stubborn not to get back on again. :th


:hugs Thank you...durn near did not even get turkeys having experienced a few commercials in my life...but my husband insisted the heritage breeds were different and durn right on that.

Why soar with eagles, when you may be enchanted by earth bound heritage turkeys
- Tara Lee Higgins - March 4, 2010

LOVE my turk a lurks...such intelligent and personable birds. Life would not be complete without them in our lives...

What is that line...you reap what you sow? ;)

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Peanut birthed today...I checked on her three times during the night prior...just me being a fuss pot. :lol:

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Next ewe due is Snickers and I have her in the ewe barn with Peanut - flock animals with budsters, eh!

She had a girl between 11 and 11:20 (nice lady, not at 2 or 3 a.m. ...sweetness!) and a boy half hour or so later. Passed the placenta, so no worries about having to administer a shot. I let her eat a bit but cleaned up the rest of it and rebedded with oat straw. Horrid rain and cold and humidity is high. I put little jackets on the lambs until they dried off and had bellies fulla colostrum.

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See Peanut shaking off the bedding and such...

Did not have triplets and both of the twins are near exactly the same size and good size too...eight pounds each. I see the average Dorper twin is about 3.48 to 3.37 kg, so eight pounds is 3.628 kg...so nice size for twin Dorpers. I am ever so thrilled and to have such lively little blighters...what is not to adore there! :cool:

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Lookit that HAIRY Boy...little hair of the dawg anyone?? :confused:

Love, did I say LOVE the hair coat on the boy.

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Girl at bottom, boy on right side

Now for me to watch him grow up and see if he retains that quality! I EVER so wanted a ram from Peanut with Boss Man and for him to have a hair coat too...pinch me perfection!

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The trio will spend the next while in the lambing jug
and hoping to turn them (and Snickers with lamb childs) out to pasture with the rest of the flock
weather permitting :barnie


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A beautiful daughter for...

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Butt scratcher...Boss Man have a nice scritch on one of the welded wire panels
I do believe if I was handing out cigars, he'd want one...far too relaxed but
certainly a Proud Poppa!
:lol:


Been an incredibly memorable day today...hoping for yet another...another day in Pear-A-Dice... :woot

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
 

LocoYokel

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What a pair! Those two are just too cute and they know it! Look at them pose... (tell the truth now, do you have a 24/7 professional photographer for those close-ups? ;))
 

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My, my...time sure does fly! :hu

What a pair! Those two are just too cute and they know it! Look at them pose... (tell the truth now, do you have a 24/7 professional photographer for those close-ups? ;))

Truth is that I pack a camera as often as able. No professional clicker though...just one that loves their subjects...:lol: Maybe a tad too much!

What a lovely pair of cuties! I do love lambs, they are so precious.

Precious and surprising. :love

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Jun 13, 2017 - Èden Ésaü

Yes, Snickers had her lamb (yes a single but a BIG one - Nine pound female and another HAIRY one!) at 14:45 June 13th.

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Snickers & two day old Èden Ésaü


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Peanut with her twins - Èder Ésaü and Èvangelina


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Ratranch Èvangelina

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Ratranch Èder Ésaü

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Ratranch Èden Ésaü

I find it difficult turning away (back to chores!) from adult sheeps...I am totally lost with lamby pies. :confused:


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All three lambs where running circles around their Mommas...when not attempting to graze themselves

So that's it for Dorper lambs until this fall... :D

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More channels showing SHEEP TV

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Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
 
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