Busy weekend with lamb vaccinations, FAMACHA checking of the ewes, moving to a new paddock. In the end we were all seeking shade.
Moving Day
Tag: in the pasture
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
Winding Down
Lambing is winding down, with Dolly hanging in there and Charity who was marked very late still to go. The pasture is filled with the wonderful sounds of lambs calling and mamas answering. The grass finally got tall enough last week that we were able to open the bottom of the barn paddock up to the ewes and lambs. We’re hoping to keep them in this area at least until we can get through the first round of shots.
If you have a craving for more lamb pictures, take a peek over here.
Happy Mother’s Day!
Wishing you all the happiest of Mother’s Days…
a day full of tender moments, love and care.
{this moment}
A Friday ritual.
A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
Participating with the SouleMama blog.
Scenes From the Pasture
Birthing
Lambing is moving along at a nice pace. The barn and pasture are busy and full of new life. It’s always so interesting to observe the different way each ewe experiences labor and birth. There is Jill who attacks the whole process with much the same energy that she attacks daily life. She will have given birth within a couple hours of showing any outward signs of labor. Then there is Julie who has a much more zen-like approach to birth, slowly stretching and pushing a little off and on for eight to ten hours. Every birth different… each new life, a new little personality.
Please check out our Lambs of 2014 album on Flickr for more lamb photos.
Lambing Time
Lambing has begun in earnest, with the first little group let out into the pasture yesterday afternoon. Temporary fence building to divide the pasture, moving troughs, setting up mineral stations, mucking out the lambing jugs, rebuilding jugs to get ready for this bigger group of mamas who are ready to pop… it was a full day. In the midst of everything two sets of twins were born. It’s busy but we’re happy things are underway. It’s worth every exhausting minute to have the opportunity to see moments like this… when Little Miss 1402 discovers the big, beautiful world.
More lamb photos here.
One of These Things
We’ve been playing a lot of “One of These Things Is Not Like the Other” for the last week or so. With the heavy snowfalls and the apparently inherent ‘es-capability’ of hoggets, there has been an on-going game of musical pastures. Each morning at feeding time everyone is moved back to their appointed pasture, and the next morning everyone is back in the barn paddock. This wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing except for the varying nutritional needs of the different groups. We didn’t really have the time or energy to discover and repair the escape routes before the next round of snow began. So for now… musical pastures it is 🙂
