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So sorry to hear that BrownSheep.

We had a new lamb born overnight and this morning DH took pics of me introducing the lamb to the dogs. Sammie is the black one who wants to accompany me every time I go to the see the lambs. The tri color is less enamored but was willing to sniff the new arrival this morning anyway. I was in...

That is awesome! Next time it rains, I'm going to that calculator to figure up how much I was able to "collect" from the roof. @Bossroo makes a point I had not considered regarding acid rain. However, having fed them the collected rain water for a year now with no apparent ill effects, I'm...

That is ingenious. Simple, yet effective. I love it!

He is a little ram lamb! I only have one ewe left to lamb but I checked her this morning and she still doesn't even look close. However she is bigger than either of my other ewes were at delivery so I suspect she is carrying twins. I'm sorta disappointed this one is a ram because I don't...

FWIW….I had 3 mature ewes and a mature ram when I purchased two lambs that were 2-months-old and had been pulled from their mother the day I got them. The seller advised that they might try to nurse from the ewes (who wouldn't appreciate that) and that I should keep them separate initially. I...

I agree! I didn't realize the BC/Lab combo was not likely to produce a dog good around baby animals. We adopted this dog at 8-9 months of age, and she is now 3 ½. The only other baby animals she's had exposure to since we've had her are the poultry and she is so good with them - she will lie...

I just looked out the window and I can see another new little lamb too! This one is mostly chocolate brown, with a little white!!! I haven't even been down to see it yet - my coffee is still hot and it doesn't look like she needs any help - but I'll take my camera when I go and get some pictures.

No, we haven't used them as fence posts, mainly because we didn't need to, but around here I do see a lot of the older fences that used them. You can tell they've been there for donkey's years but are still going strong. I've read that Osage Orange is prized by carpenters building furniture...

If I may make a suggestion….take it slow and only do one new thing a year. That advice was given to me when we moved to our acreage and I've appreciated it many times. It takes time to really learn the needs and care of any new animal (not to mention the time it takes to build their...

Oh goodness yes. I have a gable-roofed chicken coop that is 10x14 and I put up gutters on just one side of it and a rain barrel to catch the water. We don't get a ton of rain here but last year I only had to fill it with a hose twice - there rest of the time I was able to use the caught rain...

Love that story! My dog (border collie/lab x) is besotted with our new little lamb too. Every morning while mum is eating her grain, I catch the little lamb and hold her. I want her to be a little more handleable when she is older so I'm making her submit to handling now in the hopes she will...

Yay - congrats on both!!! :weee

Keep us posted Parsnip! I might be right there with you as I have a ewe I also think may be in the early stages of labor. She was out grazing with the others but came up by herself and stood looking at me through the gate. As I stood watching her, I could see the little one moving around...

Oh, you know it! Wow - her udder looks huge. Now that Bon mentions it, the morning my ewe lambed, the teats were sticking out just like that - it is good to know that is a sign, since the udder itself didn't look as filled out as I would have expected. Oh, that is too funny about trying to...

A lot of people around here call them horse apples too, since horses like to eat them. My neighbor has horses so in season, I gather them up and throw them over the fence to her horses. I had hoped that pigs would eat them too, because if so, I could consider fattening a couple of hogs on them...

I forgot you still have MaryEllen's lambs to look forward to! FWIW, when I checked my ewe on Wednesday morning her vulva looked pink but not that different from usual. Based on size, she didn't look that pregnant. The only thing that had me wondering was her bag was filling in, but when I...

Thanks Baymule - how funny - I have never heard them called that before. It gives me another option for Farm name LOL. Bodark Farm. Heh. I actually kinda like it. Especially because, around here, it would be very obtuse since I doubt most people would have heard that name used. I hadn't...

You at least were smart enough to take pictures. We transported our first sheep in the back of our car and forgot that part! It is quite the story actually: 1 man, 2 dogs and 6 sheep in the back of a car in the middle of a huge storm that included large hailstones. It turns out, hail scares...

Oooh, I like that name idea! She was definitely welcome - she was just a surprise because in the course of the day I'd talked myself into believing she was still several weeks away. Of course now I have two more ewes looking very pregnant and I'm constantly checking to see if there's any...