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It would be a wild rodeo! That particular ewe is real skittish and wild. Try to milk her? nope. Still no guarantee that she would take her lamb back. Sometimes I leave the rejected lamb with the mom and sibling in a pen. The mom still won't feed the rejected lamb, but the lamb benefits being...

I finished my coffee. Fed Tinkerbelle first, now she is snuggled up to Carson. She is going to think she is a dog. It is foggy outside, it just makes it feel colder. It's 41, high today of 66, not bad. Church this morning, It's my turn to teach the children's class for the next 3 months. All the...

Good kitty!

Nope. Ewes know their lambs from others by sniffing their butt. Momma's milk goes in one end, comes out the other end. Ewes know the smell of their own milk. Tinkerbelle has been on a bottle and it makes her smell different, so momma doesn't recognize her. Ewes will attack other lambs, butt them...

On my second cup of coffee, then I gotta get up and moving. Tinkerbelle took 8 ounces this morning. I've been putting her in an empty jug (pen) during the day so she can be outside. Yesterday she nibbled some hay. I need to bring in a little feed for her so she can start tasting that. If I put...

Pancake had twins the evening of New Year's Day. I was watering the sheep and She had a lamb, and nose and toes were sticking out for the next lamb. I put up all the ewes, then let 2 ewes with the oldest 3 lambs out of the jugs and lured Pancake into one of the jugs. It wasn't long before she...

Sandy had twins New Year's Day! A ewe with a few spots and freckles and a ram that is take my breath away gorgeous. Best part is, they are 87.5% and eligible for full registration at a year old. I’ve never kept a percentage ram, preferring to keep a ram from both parents fully registered, BUT...

My Kawasaki mule is down, back wheel bearings. I carry water in 2 barrels to the horse in the mule. Oops. So I took the truck through the sheep pen, through the field and filled the tub. Then back, ewes crowded around the truck and I had to shoo them out of the night pen so I could open the...

Whew! I've got some catching up to do! Wednesday I took apart the old hay enclosure I cobbled together with pallets and a hog panel. I used my little tractor to drag out all the old hay and cleaned it up. After doing the lamb shuffle this morning, then feeding, water and hay, I dragged the...

Coffee is ready! Got to get feed this morning. I buy 1,000 pound super bags, then scoop it into 5 gallon buckets and pour into metal trash cans. It’s cheaper to buy it this way.

Tinkerbelle is modeling the latest high fashion for lambs sports wear! She played, scampered around, wore herself out and cuddled up to Carson. Happy New Year.

I was thinking how Disney has distorted animals into fantasy caricatures of themselves and this little lamb that may grow up thinking she is a dog or a human. So I guess I’m doing a little distorting myself. The name tinkerbelle popped in my head, so she’s Tinkerbelle. I’ve been in the sheep...

@Gardening with Rabbits are you taking therapy? It sure helps with the healing. I'm glad you are doing well and feeling better. I just finished my second cup of coffee, I could go for another, but I only made two. Bottle lamb is asleep next to me in the recliner, so darn cute!

Bottle lamb has had her bottle and is asleep next to me in the recliner. Her little chin is resting on the laptop. My phone is plugged in or I'd get a picture of her.

Christmas Eve I finished 2 more jugs. Good thing I did, Sunday I had 6 lambs born! Look at this spotty one! One new momma, Dusty, had twins. It happens sometimes that the second lamb born gets all the attention, cleaned up, nudged to get up and nurse, while the first born is forgotten...