It has been about 10 days since Juliet, aka bottle baby, was weaned. For several days you could hear her complaining anytime she heard a noise that might mean the bottle toting mama and helper Harley were on their way. It has been hard to get another really good picture of her because this is the usual scene anytime you try to sneak into the field.
Saturday was weaning day – 28 beautiful lambs weaned and moved to the graveyard field. The pasture is growing nicely following our hay harvest. We did FAMACHA tests, weighed and then wormed all the lambs because last year we found that we had a huge spike in worm load in the week following weaning. We are trying to get a little jump on the worms this year, so we also wormed the ewes that scored a three this time. We kept the ewes and yearlings in the barn pasture since we are going to check everyone in a week instead of our usual two week schedule.
Hebe and her boys
Daisy and Noinin (noe-neen meaning daisy in Gaelic)
We decided it was about time Miss Juliet (aka bottle baby) moved into a ‘big girl’ pasture with some new friends. So the oldest happy accident lambs became the first weanees of the season.
little Mr. 901, twin
little Mr. 902, twin
little Mr. 903, twin
little Mr. 904, twin
Miss Lucy
So far everyone is getting along great. The lambs do not seem to be too upset about leaving their mamas. The mamas however are a different story, especially one Miss Curly who misses her little Lucy very much.
Yesterday was moving day on the farm. We moved the rams over on the backside of the hill to their summer paddock.
We moved the ewes and their lambs to the paddock at the bottom of the knoll, that was a zoo.
We moved the yearlings and wethers to a paddock near the new pasture.
Everyone is now very happy…
Juliet has an open-air condo where she can enjoy the outdoors safely. (Thank you Jonathan!) She seems to like it even better when she has company. It is a very popular hang-out. Kinsey came to visit Juliet and got to help feed her 
and play in her condo. 
Rufus the Naked Mole Rat Rabbit has been spending the days with her and really enjoys the exercise and green refreshments. 
Lena and Harley stop by quite often for some ‘tent time’. 
Juliet loves all the attention.
While taking the bio-mower pictures, I decided to stalk… errr… follow these two cute little lambs in an attempt to capture the fun that they were having.
Things were going pretty well… I was snapping away, sure that soon I would get the picture that captured the carefree feeling of the afternoon.
Look! Who should suddenly come charging in to the picture frame but Miss Lucy, and she is all like ‘you didn’t tell me that there was a photo shoot going on’. Daimhin (daw+veen) and little Mr. 915 are all of a sudden like ‘Oh, excuse me, your royal highness’.
Oh my gosh, maybe Miss Lucy really does run things around here!
The bio-mowing continues! How about this cute little line-up of busy bio-mowers, fancy footwork and all.
