I will take more pictures later, but this is just a
quick shot from my front door. And, it is still snowing.
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Friday, February 08, 2013
Wednesday. Breakfast and more lambs
This is the Junction Restaurant in Bradford, NH
Morning started out with dropping Jerry's car back off at the garage to see what is wrong with it.
Then breakfast with Pam and John of Old Mac Wylie's Farm.
Guess what I had for breakfast? The upper berth. See menu above.
Jerry gets a little breakfast and we split mine. I like the pancakes, the hash, toast and eggs.
Crisp bacon and sausage, and he gets some potatoes and the ham.
Home in time to catch a chicken sheep hopping.
She is also eating hay seed off their backs.
This is Keira, a Dorset/Romney with her black baby beside her.
Next is her mother Victoria, the polled Dorset.
From there the chicken heads for Cassidy.
She is Dorset/Romney/Shetland.
Candace entertains her twins.
This is another reason we try to keep them jacketed.
Bardo and some of his hens warming their feet on the manure pile.
He is just singing his heart out!
Later in the day Rachael went into labor.
She presented us with a little girl.
Then she started pushing again. But, the 2nd was breech.
The toes are supposed to point up with a normal presentation.
Sometimes they can deliver a breech on their own, but because we were there,
and did not want to chance losing the lamb and possibly the ewe, Jerry helped.
With a breech it is even more important to make sure their airway is open. Often when the umbilical cord is broken during a breech delivery, the lamb may take a breath and aspirate the birthing fluids. We want to make sure the airway is open and most often, as this one did, they will sneeze out some of the fluid.
Birthing is a bloody mess. It is amazing to me that the breech baby is white while the 1st born here is yellow. She won't be for long! Mom will make sure of that.
More sheep and lamb pictures
Stormy Weather. My pride and joy! He is a Registered Romney ram
He is considered a Tri-Colored. Just look at the color differences on his back.
He was sheared last fall and has not needed a jacket, yet.
Abraham, a Border Leicester/Romney.
His fleece is a mess. I will need to split his fleece down the middle.
The sides are fine, just not the spine.
So, I will either sell 2 1/2s or wash it and card it.
Gracie is a retired Horned Dorset.
She is our people greeter. And, she LOVES kids!
Victoria and her daughter Patience.
Vic is a polled Dorset. Patience's father was Horned.
She has scurs (fake horns).
(When sheep don't have horns, they are
considered polled. If they have little stubs
that are loosely attached
to their head, those are called scurs.)
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One of last year's Horned Dorset ewes.
Mini looking for her child.
Lillian. Border Leicester/Romney.
Christopher and Kane don't let each other of of their sight.
Chris is now 1, Kane is 5-6.
Little hen thinks the burning bush is a good place to sit. But, she is now too heavy for it.
I like that I got her in flight mode in the above picture.
The top of her head was Blue Coated as Bardo, or someone, pinched her comb and made her bleed.
The chickens taking advantage of the 'naked' dirt along the house.
Heifer and Mini Me with this year's lambs.
Mini says, 'Are you mine?' She then looks back and sees her own.
Mini Me is Heifer's daughter. Mini had a ram for the 2nd year in a row.
Heifer had a daughter for the first time since Mini.
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