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Sarah in Relation to Sally

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This is Sarah. There is much excitement about Sarah! She is a Border Leicester out of Abby and Saul. The cause for excitement is that she is the grand-daughter of our old girl, Sally Ann.

We were given Sally when we bought some other registered Border Leicester ewes several years ago. Already an ‘older’ ewe, she was just kind of thrown in for good measure… you know. Well, Sally became a beloved member of our flock and gave us three good years of ram lambs before dying last summer. All summer we talked about how disappointed we were that we had no ewe lamb to carry on Sally’s lineage. But, we held on to Sally’s ’07 ram lamb and decided to use him this year on some of the BL ewes. We are so happy we did.

The second cause for excitement is that for five days we thought that Abby had a ram lamb… no excuse other than punch-drunk exhaustion. So… we are pretty darn excited that she actually had this 9 lb beauty of a ewe! Still thinking there might have been some kind of divine intervention happening there…

Catching Up

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Last week was a crazy one. We had lots of rain, a day of sleet and hail, followed by a day of this –

Thank goodness, bluer skies prevailed the rest of the week.

And we spent a lot of time doing this… in the 80+ degree weather that followed.

But, it was all worthwhile because we had a lot of rewards like this –

Meet Flora and Fauna, born to Sweet Pea (Lincoln cross) out of Liam (BL). Born around 5 a.m., Flora weighed 10 lbs 10 ozs and Fauna weighed 10 lbs. This was a cold, rainy morning, and Sweet Pea decided to have them half in, half out the open barn door. We put the little coats on to warm them up a bit after their chilly start.

Slowly, but surely, we are going to catch up with pictures of all the lambs, so stay tuned.

Meet Juliet

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She is our little premie. Born around 8:30 a.m. yesterday, she did not even attempt to get up to nurse. She could not stand nor hold her head up. Even after hours of drying, massaging, etc. her back legs were still like wet noodles. We kept her under a heat lamp. We fed her lamb milk replacer, electrolytes and extra dextrose, calcium, etc. We even took turns sleeping on the floor next to her little box. So, after all this and a couple vitamin B shots…. TA DA!

We might actually have to name her Wonder Woman!

The Queen

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This is Queen Elizabeth. In a Border Leicester frame of reference, she is a real beauty; from her lovely Roman nose to her even more lovely wool full of crimp and curl.

We have not had great luck breeding The Q Liz to Liam, our registered Border Leicester ram. We have everything crossed that this will be the year that everything works out.


Cinder’s Carriage and Her Royal Majesty colorways

Shown above are two colorways we have developed from the lovely queen’s wool. You can find them here in our etsy shop.