Lambs, lambs and even more lambs

I know, I need to post some pictures. We have had even more computer trouble, but hopefully its fixed, for now.

All of our Suffolk's have lambed. They are doing well except for one that has a broken leg, and another little ewe lamb that is lame because our Great Pyre puppy played a bit too rough with her as a new born. I'm hoping they both pull thru, but only time will tell.

Our Icelandics are doing very well! Only three have lambed so far, all singles. Kit was first, with a ewe lamb. Brown with 3 white boots on her legs. Beatrice was next, a few hours later, with an all black ewe lamb. Both weighed over 9#'s. I knew Beatrice, who is 7, has had large lambs in the past, but I was surprised that Kit had such a large one since she is a first time mom. One week later Kat had a ram lamb, also brown with two white socks in the front. He weighed over 90#s also..... What good mothers these ewes are! While the Suffolks would stand around and make noise while our puppy played with their lambs, the Icelandics will actually charged and roll the puppy if she even as much as looks at their lambs! So now my job is to move the sheep every two or three days to fresh pasture. Now that we have had some rain ( and boy did we get the rain) the grass is growing wonderfully!

Hopefully I can get some pictures up tonight.

Shearing time!

OH my gosh! We had our sheep sheared last week. The only time our shearer could, and wouldn't you know that the weather turned bitter cold! Now its raining with a nasty wind. I know I shouldn't worry too much about these guys, but I just took their wonderful winter coat off! Not to mention that I thought we wouldn't lamb until late this month, but wouldn't you know the day after they were sheared we had our first lambs..... 3 and only 1 made it from last Thursday. Saturday we had twins, girls, and they are doing well so far...... and it looks like we have 3 more ready to go any time now....

So I"m gonna have to move this fleece... It won't be as nice as my fall shear because the animals have been on hay all winter. As hard as I tried, they still managed to get some in their fleece.......

Well off to finish making my kombucha...

Green Pastures!

I can not tell you how nice its been to be able to move the sheep every few days to fresh pasture! After 4+ months on 3 acres and nothing but hay, they were thrilled to see green stuff! Boy is that grass growing with this warm weather and lots of rain!

The shearer will be here any day now, and the girls are starting to *show*! I'm so looking forward to lambing!

Have a great day