Showing posts with label sheep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sheep. Show all posts
19 April 2014

Big Decisions

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Today, I realized something. I went out to the barn, cleared out Sasha’s stall, and got everything ready – she will calve soon, and I am r...
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18 October 2013

The new sheep feeder

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Today was the first test of the new sheep feeder, designed by me but built mostly by The Boy (I did help a little). The prototype was bu...
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15 August 2013

Another week for George, and a new sheep feeder

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George the calf has has his two summers and a winter, and it’s time for his ride to the last stop before the Big Pasture in the Sky. However...
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20 July 2013

New watering strategy for the stock

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The shape of the pastures and barnyard is an evolving thing, still. I would like it if we could just figure it out and stick with one good, ...
30 March 2013

Resting

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Apparently, I can still overdo it without realizing it. I spent most of yesterday weaving – trying out different ways of working with a po...
04 May 2012

Two more lambs

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Hughie: And Henrietta: They appeared this morning, their mama managed everything just fine on her own, as usual with Icelandic sheep. We...
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25 April 2012

The new lambs

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On April 20, we had twins born here: however, the mama sheep was quite sure that only one of the babies was hers, so we have a bottle lamb. ...
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02 April 2012

Weird spring blizzard: the perfect day for lambing

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Very early yesterday morning I woke up in need of a glass of water, and I heard rain on the windows. “Great,” I thought, “that’ll help was...
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19 February 2011

Spring must be around the corner!

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We have lambs! The two ‘early ewes’ (the Columbia and Columbia/Hamp cross) had their lambs this week … of course after several days of lovel...
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28 August 2010

If *this* were my job…

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… I tell ya, things would be different. If my job were keeping the house and farm running, keeping up with everything would be so much eas...
20 September 2009

Harvest & the Garden Cleanup Crew

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Today was the day to harvest the remaining things out in the garden – the rest of the potatoes, beets, the squash, and the few stray onions ...
08 August 2009

A whole new flock for Apple Jack Creek

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We've been thinking about shifting our flock base over to Icelandics for some time now - the Icelandic sheep we have had just seem to be...
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14 July 2009

The first purebred Icelandic lambs have arrived

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Natalie *finally* delivered her twin lambs today! The Boy was keeping an eye out for a delivery, as we knew it had to be fairly soon, and he...
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05 June 2009

At last, Cherub’s lamb!

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Cherub was expected to lamb back in February, based on our observations of activity in the pasture last fall. Apparently, though, the activi...
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01 June 2009

4-H Achievement Day

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Today was the annual 4-H Achievement Day, but it was different than the previous years as we had no animals to go with us. All our sheep hav...
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22 May 2009

At long last...

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Despreaux, our black mostly-Icelandic ewe, born here last year, finally delivered her lamb! Despreaux is a small one-winter ewe, not quite f...
19 April 2009

Sheep, for elementary students

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Friday, The Boy and I volunteered to help the Alberta Lamb Producers show groups of elementary school students what the sheep industry is. T...
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07 April 2009

Ethan and Emily go to school

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A little while ago, we picked up two bottle lambs. They are Katahdin/wool crosses, so they are definitely meat sheep (Katahdins are hair she...
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21 March 2009

Okay, THIS time it was obvious we needed to intervene!

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I went outside around five tonight to do chores and check on things, and I noticed Pugsy was all by herself in the sheep shelter, pawing at ...
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18 March 2009

Can't save 'em all

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The new lamb only made it for a week. :( In hindsight, we should have realized that he wasn't getting strong enough fast enough - they a...
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