Emma Bear

We are very happy to announce that Emma has given birth to a big ewe lamb this afternoon. We again have been having a very long spell with no lambs being born. It was thrilling to finally have a lamb born.



Emma and her new baby



Emma is a very special little ewe, I got her as a bummer lamb two years ago from a long time Romney breeder. As a lamb she got pneumonia and so when she gets stressed she starts coughing for that reason she didn't go to many sheep shows but she still is one of the friendlist sheep in the flock.



Even though it has been two years since she was on a bottle she still believes that the bottle is for her and will actually drink from the bottle if you let her.

Emma's fleece currently being sold in our Etsy shop.

Emma's fleece is very impressive it grows incredibaly fast so her staple length often is around six inches. She produces very heavy fleeces with gorgous crimp. Her wooliness is what got her the nickname of Emma Bear.



Emma as a baby



We are looking forward to seeing how her lamb grows out and if she has a gorgous fleece like her momma.

Out Into The Big World

Today started off as any normal day, a lazy morning involving feeding the sheep and lallygagging around the house. But we had other plans for the day that were a bit more productive. Today the lambs and their moms got to go into the big wide world.

Now whose idea was it to leave Dolly with all the lambs?

The older lambs got shots and all the ewes got dewormed. When we opened up the gates all the ewes rushed out, even if they were forgetting their lambs.

the cat slept through all the commotion

There was so much commotion of ewes searching for lambs and lambs searching for their moms that the whole farm was in upset. One little lamb got so upset that he went through the fence and was running through the yard. it took us a while but we managed to corner him and take him to his mom. Then we realised the ewe he was trying to follow and who was calling to him wasn't even his mom!

One of Autumns lambs, Charlie, didn't want to get his hooves muddy so she kept having to come back to the barn to try to get him to come out.

 We are also happy to report that Dolly has learned to count this year! Last year she could never keep track of her lambs and was always leaving them behind. This year she can count up to two but no matter how bossy she is she just can't get them out of the barn at all. For the time being she has given up and is residing

 in the barn.

In the end we had to take a couple of the lambs out to their moms but now things are begining to return to normal. While the lambs are more than happy to romp around in the rain.

Lambs...Lambs...Lambs

It seems we waited forever for Calla & Mauds lambs to arrive. Both ewes we due on Valentines Day, but much to our disappointment, the day came and went with no new lambs. The next four days seemed to stretch on forever as we diligently checked them.








Finally we were rewarded by the arrival of Calla's twin ewe lambs at 6:30 am on Saturday morning.

Mauds little fellow arrived at 11:30 pm Saturday night. Already at only 12 hours old, he keeps himself busy toddling around his pen when he is not napping.

Calla's lambs aren't as active. They spend most of their time snuggling with each other & their mama.

As you notice, Calla & Maud are white ewes with colored lambs. Calla is a Romney & Maud is a Dorset. Both ewes are what we refer to as B-factored. Simply stated, this means they are white sheep that carry the recessive black gene. We bred Calla to a natural colored (black) Romney Ram & Maud was bred to a natural colored (black) Dorset Ram. By doing this the odds were that we would have 50% lambs colored like their mothers (B-factored) and 50% natural colored like their fathers. What we got was 100% natural colored lambs!

This week we'll be waiting for Floss, Annabeth, & Emma to lamb... the fun continues!

Little Lambs

We have been extremely busy as lambing season has come upon us. Dolly had triplets yesterday though sadly one was dead when we got home. This morning one of our meat sheep had lambs and this evening Autumn had two big boys.