Thursday March 17, 2011
Heirloom Breeds & Seeds:
Lambs Stepping Out!
98 lambs and today was their first day outside. Took 5 tries, but eventually they all made it!
Thursday March 17, 2011
98 lambs and today was their first day outside. Took 5 tries, but eventually they all made it!
Thursday March 10, 2011
Lambs keep coming..... and so does the rain. At least the snow is washing
away - now we can begin to inventory the spare parts to the hoop house in
order to begin to reconstruct it after its snow load collapse. Well, maybe
we'll wait until the rain stops....
Sump pumping out the barn gutters has become a regular occurrence with the
rain. We think there must be a gopher hole or rabbit hole right up again the
foundation of the barn which is letting all the water in, since it has never
happened before in its 75 year history.
Friday March 04, 2011
This is what 50 lambs looks like. Here are the other half of the girls that are going to be lambing this month. The barn is filling up!
Friday February 25, 2011
...triplets, twins keeping me busy... lamb head count is now 33....
Thursday February 17, 2011
Triplets, twins, triplets - lambing is in full swing! Thank goodness no
bottle babies (yet). I'm not getting much sleep, but then again I don't
expect to this time of year. Twice nightly barn checks, then work all day
either cleaning the barn, feeding, fixing or dealing with what comes my way.
The warmer weather is nice to a point, and now that the snow is melting we
are dealing with flooding in the barn/ice at night when it refreezes.
The forecast for spring is wet and wild - Oh boy!!!
Thursday February 03, 2011
Our first little guy was born this sunny afternoon with some assistance. Mom and ram lamb are doing fine. He weighed in at 13.5 pounds - a big boy!! Here he is taking his first nap.
Our hoophouse collapsed due to snow load the night before I was going to clean off the roof - does that coiunt as adding insult to injury or just bad timing? No injuries, but we'll have to dig it all out and replace it asap. The critters out in that pasture will just have to tough it out until then.
Shearing tomorrow! If you want to volunteer and come help, drop me a line. The more hands the merrier.