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Hi, APautumnprairie said:stopping by to say hi
How are you?
SheepGirl's 2012 Lambing Thread
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autumnprairie
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I won my custody battle A gets to stay, found out the that side of the family are sore about it even when they said all was okSheepGirl said:Hi, APautumnprairie said:stopping by to say hi
but other than that I am fantastic
Happy Easter
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Sorry for the very late reply.autumnprairie said:I won my custody battle A gets to stay, found out the that side of the family are sore about it even when they said all was okSheepGirl said:Hi, APautumnprairie said:stopping by to say hi
but other than that I am fantastic
Happy Easter
But this news is great!
Congratulations. I know it's late, but happy Easter to you, too - Thread starter
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Sorry for the lack of an update...our computer has a virus (the Windows Recovery virus) and so I am very hesitant about being on the computer and uploading pictures onto my computer because I'm afraid they'll go missing if I get them uploaded. (Some of my pictures are already missing, but they were recovered when we copied the folder over onto an external hard drive. When I get my laptop for a graduation present in a month, we will be getting the Geek Squad protection for half off and we will get this computer fixed then.)
Anyway, you should see how much FLUFFIER and PREGNANT my ewe has gotten over the past month! The wool on her face is noticeably longer and she has a very obvious baby bump. She's due in four weeks
I'm guessing twins based on what she had the past two times she was bred, but I would be ecstatic if she had trips
Sheep still haven't gotten sheared...hopefully it will be soon because this 80 degree weather isn't making them happy. And with this weather (and season) comes bees. There is a HUGE swarm right near the entrance to the barnyard. They're the big fat bees with the black lower body and the yellow upper body. I'm not allergic to bees, but I'm still scared to get stung because it hurts.
April and May are what I like to call "kitten season." We got all of our outdoor cats spayed and neutered last summer. But we missed one that we thought was a boy. Well, apparently it's a girl. And she had five kittens. She had three of them around 4 am on April 26, and then when I got home from school there were two more in there with her. (We brought her in our house the Sunday before she queened.) Only two of them are red tabbies (like the mother), the rest are gray/grayish orange tabbies (like the father, who lives at the barn). Unfortunately on April 29, late at night, one of the kittens passed away (one of the gray ones). But Oliver (boy name because we thought she was a he) and her kittens are doing good...all are girls except for one of the red tabbies.
At the barn, there are four litters of kittens out of my neighbor's cats (that I've found so far).
Litter #1 - five kittens, all cream tabbies. Three girls, two boys. The mother is a shorthair red tabby. About four weeks old.
Litter #2 - four kittens, three red tabbies, one red/white tabby. Didn't bother to check sexes except for on the red/white one...that one's a girl. Two of them went missing yesterday and one of them was adopted by the mother of litter #3 and the red/white one was wondering by itself. So I brought it up to our house and she was adopted by Oliver. Don't know who the mother is. About four to five weeks old.
Litter #3 - four kittens, one black, one red tabby, two tortoiseshells (one has more red markings on it than the other). Didn't check the sexes...but the black one is a girl. The mother is a longhair tortoiseshell. I call her "crooked head kitty" because her head is always tilted to the side. She's very friendly. About two weeks old.
Litter #4 - three kittens, one gray tabby, one black, and one tortoiseshell/tabby (had orange and gray splotches with black tabby spots--unfortunately I found this one dead). Black baby is a boy, didn't check the gray one. Mother is a shorthair gray tabby. About a week old.
Total: 21 kittens, 17 still alive and kicking. To my knowledge, all litters of kittens have the same father, a nasty lil sucker of a cat that's a gray tabby. He visited our house a couple weeks ago for about a week (which was about the time Oliver would've gotten pregnant). He didn't tolerate any of the other cats anywhere near him. But he loved our dogs.
ANYWAY...back onto the sheep Well...not really...don't really have anymore updates. But the MD Sheep & Wool Festival is this weekend Anyone going?
Anyway, you should see how much FLUFFIER and PREGNANT my ewe has gotten over the past month! The wool on her face is noticeably longer and she has a very obvious baby bump. She's due in four weeks
I'm guessing twins based on what she had the past two times she was bred, but I would be ecstatic if she had trips Sheep still haven't gotten sheared...hopefully it will be soon because this 80 degree weather isn't making them happy. And with this weather (and season) comes bees. There is a HUGE swarm right near the entrance to the barnyard. They're the big fat bees with the black lower body and the yellow upper body. I'm not allergic to bees, but I'm still scared to get stung because it hurts.
April and May are what I like to call "kitten season." We got all of our outdoor cats spayed and neutered last summer. But we missed one that we thought was a boy. Well, apparently it's a girl. And she had five kittens. She had three of them around 4 am on April 26, and then when I got home from school there were two more in there with her. (We brought her in our house the Sunday before she queened.) Only two of them are red tabbies (like the mother), the rest are gray/grayish orange tabbies (like the father, who lives at the barn). Unfortunately on April 29, late at night, one of the kittens passed away (one of the gray ones). But Oliver (boy name because we thought she was a he) and her kittens are doing good...all are girls except for one of the red tabbies.
At the barn, there are four litters of kittens out of my neighbor's cats (that I've found so far).
Litter #1 - five kittens, all cream tabbies. Three girls, two boys. The mother is a shorthair red tabby. About four weeks old.
Litter #2 - four kittens, three red tabbies, one red/white tabby. Didn't bother to check sexes except for on the red/white one...that one's a girl. Two of them went missing yesterday and one of them was adopted by the mother of litter #3 and the red/white one was wondering by itself. So I brought it up to our house and she was adopted by Oliver. Don't know who the mother is. About four to five weeks old.
Litter #3 - four kittens, one black, one red tabby, two tortoiseshells (one has more red markings on it than the other). Didn't check the sexes...but the black one is a girl. The mother is a longhair tortoiseshell. I call her "crooked head kitty" because her head is always tilted to the side. She's very friendly. About two weeks old.
Litter #4 - three kittens, one gray tabby, one black, and one tortoiseshell/tabby (had orange and gray splotches with black tabby spots--unfortunately I found this one dead). Black baby is a boy, didn't check the gray one. Mother is a shorthair gray tabby. About a week old.
Total: 21 kittens, 17 still alive and kicking. To my knowledge, all litters of kittens have the same father, a nasty lil sucker of a cat that's a gray tabby. He visited our house a couple weeks ago for about a week (which was about the time Oliver would've gotten pregnant). He didn't tolerate any of the other cats anywhere near him. But he loved our dogs.
ANYWAY...back onto the sheep
Well...not really...don't really have anymore updates. But the MD Sheep & Wool Festival is this weekend Anyone going?
autumnprairie
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I have 2 litters of kittens 4 and not sure how many in the hidden litter 
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4 weeks left? That's not long at all.
And I'm going to S&W! On Saturday! My sister is coming up from NC and we'll be going. Can't wait!
And I'm going to S&W! On Saturday! My sister is coming up from NC and we'll be going. Can't wait!
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I had 8 barn cats and I had them spayed and neutered (except two boys) this past Winter. Well my ultimate, favorite one of the eight (whom we just had neutered and a hernia repaired) has disappeared. I am so bummed. Of course it had to be my favorite one! Now I have seven cats. We used to have litters every April too. We think maybe it was fox. As for lambing, I ended up with 5 lambs this year (more than planned). One lamb didn't make it. My sheep aren't sheared yet either, but we usually do it in May.
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Don't you just love when the mommas hide the kittens from you? Or put them in a spot inaccessible to you?autumnprairie said:I have 2 litters of kittens 4 and not sure how many in the hidden litter
lolI went on Saturday, tooaggieterpkatie said:4 weeks left? That's not long at all.
And I'm going to S&W! On Saturday! My sister is coming up from NC and we'll be going. Can't wait!
I got there at about 11:30 and didn't leave until 5:30ish. My mom dropped me off because she didn't think I could park with our truck...but then she came back and she and I walked around for about an hour or two. Did you have fun? I bet it was fun going with your sister!It's always the favoritesSouthdown said:
I am so jealous you have lambs already
Sorry about the one that didn't make it, but did that put you back into the number you had planned?-----
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Once I'm done writing this update, I'm going down to the barn to take pictures of my ewe. She's getting BIG!
But anyway, my neighbor sold his farm and the sheep need to be off his property by June 8. The Babydolls are going to another farm somewhere near by (though I don't know where or who they're going to). So right now I'm planning out exactly where their pen is going to be going in my backyard until we can get the back acre fenced in...and then when the sale finalizes for the two acres beside us, we will fence that in, too.
Sheep still haven't been sheared yet; hopefully that will be soon.
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We had more lambs than we planned. One in particular I really like; she is the one that had scours initially. Gosh, I just don't know what happened to my cat either. We've had cats hide their kittens inside trees.
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It's raining today. But I got a lot of pictures yesterday when I went down to the barn. But first I'll share some kitten pics
Three babies, with the adopted, older one in the middle. (ETA: Actually, if you look closer, you can see all five kittens.)
My living teddy bear
Snuggled
One of the orange babies sleeping (don't ask me which one it is...I have no clue lol)
Now here's some sheep pictures...
The flock grazing
For those of you who like Paulie, here he is.
My ewe and the 2008 Babydoll ewe.
My ewe with a funny look on her face...
Yep, this is a real picture. But it looks photoshopped? I think maybe because of the shadow of my ewe or sumth'in.
My ewe. I love the contrast in these photos the rainy day provided.
And here are the rams (my ram is on the left).
Three babies, with the adopted, older one in the middle. (ETA: Actually, if you look closer, you can see all five kittens.)
My living teddy bear
Snuggled
One of the orange babies sleeping
(don't ask me which one it is...I have no clue lol)
Now here's some sheep pictures...
The flock grazing
For those of you who like Paulie, here he is.
My ewe and the 2008 Babydoll ewe.
My ewe with a funny look on her face...
Yep, this is a real picture. But it looks photoshopped? I think maybe because of the shadow of my ewe or sumth'in.
My ewe. I love the contrast in these photos the rainy day provided.
And here are the rams (my ram is on the left).
