Baymule’s Farm

[baymule]

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 lot all morning. I scrapie tagged the lambs born on Sunday. Beauty had twin rams this morning. I’m out of jugs. One lamb is big enough to go out, but that would be one lamb. I’d rather he have playmates. So I added onto a jug on the end where Aerial and her two lambs are. I’m giving Beauty the day to bond with her babies. I may take the divider out this evening or wait until the morning. Finally got Beauty and lambs situated, then I still had to feed, water and hay. Plus run back in to feed Tinkerbelle. I just fixed a bowl of cereal, then I’m going back out to destroy the hay square I built around the round bale, drag out all the dead hay and might get to putting the hay cradle together that @Ridgetop and her husband brought me. Or I might do some more work on the driveway.

Beauty and her lambs.

Lamb count is 20.

 

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[baymule]

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.

 

[Marie2020]

Tinkerbelle is modeling the latest high fashion for lambs sports wear!

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She played, scampered around, wore herself out and cuddled up to Carson.

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Happy New Year.

Tinkerbell looks beautiful in her fashionable outfit
Carson had always been a handsome lad.

 

[flowerbug]

Tinkerbell looks beautiful in her fashionable outfit
Carson had always been a handsome lad.

everytime i read his name i think of Carson on Downton Abbey... except perhaps the parts where he licks himself...

 

[SPedigrees]

Tinkerbelle is modeling the latest high fashion for lambs sports wear!

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She played, scampered around, wore herself out and cuddled up to Carson.

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Happy New Year.

Carson is such a good babysitter!

 

[Marie2020]

everytime i read his name i think of Carson on Downton Abbey... except perhaps the parts where he licks himself...

Oh you are so naughty
Lock him in his room @flowerbug s mother

 

[flowerbug]

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.

cute little buttons!

 

[baymule]

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 pieces of the hay cradle that @Ridgetop and her husband brought to me, into the sheep lot.

I got it put together, it took me about an hour Then it was ready for hay! I got a roll of hay, it’s sat outside so the bottom was rotted. I set it down, backed up my son’s big tractor and used my little tractor to roll it over with the rotten side up.

I stabbed it again with the big tractor and went to the sheep night pen.
Can’t put a round bale in a cradle with the net wrap on it, so I started unwinding the wrap. Then the bale fell apart.

I was left with the core and layers of hay on the ground. I tried to set the core in the cradle, not having much luck. Son came driving up, he got on his tractor and managed to scrape it off into the cradle. Then we rolled up layers and put them in the cradle. I gave hay to the ewes and lambs in the jugs.

Our redesigned round bale. It’s kinda lumpy.

The ewes said it looked good to them and I guess that’s all that matters.

 

[baymule]

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 gate and get the truck out. Tame sheep don’t shoo. They meander, think about it and come back. SHOO! I pushed them, the ewes stopped in the gate. The 3 lambs I turned out of the jugs yesterday were yelling for their moms, moms yelled back and went to look for their babies. Lambs got distracted by running circles around the hay cradle, moms were sure an eagle flew in and lamb-napped them. I finally got them all out, closed the gate, opened the gate at the driveway and drove the truck out.