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A single photo – no words – capturing a single moment from the week
A simple, special extraordinary moment.
A moment to pause, savor and remember.
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And, of course, we have to share the big news that we finally made it back in the hay field today… 420 more bales in the barn!
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{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.
Weekly Top Shot
Little Mister 1303 and Little Miss 1304 are enjoying their time in the nursery paddock. Although weighing almost 4 lbs less at birth than all the other lambs, the little miss is having no trouble keeping up. They are all enjoying the last couple days of sunshine.
Keeping Watch
It was another quiet day on the lambing front. Hebe had a wonderful set of twins, a ram weighing 9 lbs 14 ozs and a ewe weighing 10 lbs. The old pro that she is, Hebe had the little ewe standing up while her first born was beginning to nurse. She is a great mama.
A large storm front moved through late afternoon with fierce winds, thunder, lightning and a lot of rain. By that time Hebe and the twins were settled quite nicely in the barn, snug in their lambing jug.
Just as we waited on the storm yesterday, we feel we’re waiting on another… a lamb storm. As we keep watch over the bulging bellies and swelling udders, the number of ewes that could go anytime keeps mounting. Here’s hoping all those lambs don’t decide to come at once.
Lambs in the Field
It was a busy weekend full of fence building, jug mucking, pasture walking and a whole lot of watching spring unfold before our very eyes. We built a new paddock and moved the first four lambs and their mamas in, along with Liam. He is kind of overwhelmed by the small, noisy creatures, but has been very patient.
Only one new lamb so far today. Little Miss 1307 was born about 4 a.m. out of Maibh and Aragorn and weighed 13 lbs 8 ozs. She is a beauty.
To say the least, there is a whole lot of excitement going on!
{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.
Hermione
Saturday found Hermione seeking a spot to rest and stretch out a little in between eating massive amounts of hay. Sunday morning she spent a lot of time coming in and out of the barn, checking on Hannah and her twin rams. Her lambs had dropped so we checked on her several times during the day, hoping that she would have them in the barn so that it wouldn’t be too difficult to get them in a lambing jug.
In the end, she chose to have them out in the field, where it was warm but cloudy and a little windy. Only a second-time mama, we managed to get Hermione and her twins into the barn with only a little crazy running and not so gentle head butting of the shepherdess. We had the lambing jug all set up with a big feeder full of second-cutting hay and a bucket of molasses water.
The first born, a ram, weighed 10 lbs 5 ozs, and the second, a little ewe, weighed 6 lbs 14 ozs. We were a little worried about the ewe at first and made sure that her brother didn’t hog all the colostrum. She was up and going strong last night when we went back to the barn to check on them.
Hermione was the other ewe that was caught during the October Snowicane. We now have about 10 – 14 days until lambing begins in earnest.
