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Going for my second cup of coffee. I got caught up on my farm thread, lots of lambs being born! Count is 33 now. I have to take Buford to a vet clinic in Houston today, to meet a lovely female Anatolian. The vet has been testing her hormone levels daily to see what day she would be receptive...

Whew! I've been crazy busy! It's a fog whiteout, I have to leave a 9 AM to take Buford to a vet clinic in Houston for either an AI collection or a breeding with a female Anatolian in heat. He usually shuts down and is a zombie when I take him away from the farm, so I hope he is interested enough...

31 lambs until yesterday morning…… Patches had a single, a white ram lamb. So Sunshine and Parches stay another year. I was out of jugs, so I put Patches in with her twin sister Sunshine. Lamb count 32. While I was getting Patches and her baby situated, I heard a baby crying. I went to...

Sunshine had twin rams Tuesday morning. She’s on the list to go if she has a ewe lamb. No ewe lamb. But I have her twin sister who hasn’t lambed yet. So we’ll see…. If Patches has a ewe, it might put Patches and Sunshine on the sell list. I had to take Tinkerbelle’s jug away from her to give...

Cinnamon had twins Monday afternoon around 1:30. I moved Pancake and her twins out and moved Cinnamon and her twins in. She had a red ewe first followed by a white ram. the ram wasn’t as strong as the ewe. Cinnamon wasn’t too sure about him. I held her, basically just hugging her, talked to her...

Monday, 1-4-26 Freckles, registered ewe, had a freckled ewe lamb that looks just like her. One for the flock! She got a scrapie tag too. I turned Specks and her two lambs out of the jug so I could make room for Freckles and her baby. I put Tinkerbelle in the empty jug, it’s good for her...

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...