A beautiful Easter present from Hope… twins… a ram and a ewe. Our first purebred Border Leicester ewe lamb! Sire is Spring Breeze 5017 ‘Liam’ . Hope is a wonderful mother and the twins are doing great!
Hippity-hoppity!
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Easter weekend weather
Finally! Liam’s first lamb!
This afternoon Sally Ann finally had her lamb. We have been waiting impatiently; waiting with much anticipation because this is our first lamb sired by Liam, our registered Border Leicester ram.
He is a good looking ram lamb, weighing 8 lbs 12 ozs.
Welcome Little Kathleen
Nuala decided to deliver her first lamb during the beginning of the WVU vs. Clemson NIT championship basketball game. We have continued the Irish naming tradition by choosing to dub the little white ewe Kathleen, also linking her to the WVU victory.
Faith Renewed: Another Ewe Lamb
Faith, one of our Border Leicester cross yearlings, had her lamb today — an 8 lb 13 oz white ewe. After a little rocky start with Neala trying to adopt it, Faith has
figured out that she is the mom and all is well.
Neala’s lamb
Our Coopworth X Blue-Faced Leicester yearling Neala presented us with a beautiful healthy baby ewe today. She is being a very attentive mother. We are very happy that it was a warm day for the new lamb. Neala was purchased from Martha McGrath at Deerrun Sheep Farm last fall and is a daughter of Silver Creek Obsidian.
Spring Shearing – the best laid plans gone awry
Ice…
thick layers of ice…
snow…
drooping fences…
and naked sheep…
and naked sheep…as Charlie Brown would say… “AARRGGHH!!”
First Lamb of 2007
Fiona had our first lamb of the season. She is our 3 year old Coopworth X Blue Faced Border Leicester that we purchased, already bred, from Martha McGrath (http://www.deerrunsheepfarm.com) last fall. She had a beautiful single white ram lamb this morning.
It will be a while before we have more lambs as put our rams with our ewes later than Martha.
Wool Socks
Finished these scrumptious wool socks recently. They are made from 100% superwash merino wool sock yarn — “mountain sunset” from www.Lavendersheep.etsy.com . The pattern is from Knitting Vintage Socks book by Nancy Bush. (Received both the yarn and the book at Christmastime– THANK YOU to my sisters!) They were really fun to knit and are yummy and warm to wear. Hopefully soon we will be knitting socks from our own handspun wool.
And . . . Oh Yeah . . . Guess I should mention . . . It’s snowing again . . .
Snow, Ice, and More Snow
Mother Nature has sure been making up for the mild winter we had been having, by dealing out very cold, windy, snowy and icy weather the past couple of weeks.
We have had a couple of feet of snow followed by at least an inch of ice, then topped off with another 3 – 4 inches of snow. If you walk carefully, you can walk on top of the ice with just a few sudden break-throughs into the deep snow below to throw you off balance.
The ice has done a number on a couple of the temporary fences we have while others appear less affected.
Several of the sheep have ice coats but do not seem to mind at all.
The sun shone brightly today to show off the ice but didn’t get warm enough to actually melt off much.
Warmer weather is coming soon!?!?