2019, Waiting on lambs!

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Put up the temp fence to let ewes grazy it. Horses broke it, not the geese.

 

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Hand sheared Majin, took an hour because she kept having a meltdown...

 

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So, my experiment about the neighbor's obsessive weed spraying causing lamb deaths & deformities seem to be true.

Last year, I let the ewes on the new land freely & had lambs die, be sickly or deformed. There is a permanent, offset fence by 8ft, that I had put up to keep my animals in. But 8ft is not enough, seems the wind blew it far & wide.

This year, I put up a temporary fence to keep the ewes away from that area until late in winter. Zero problems.

The only two I lost were; one was too large & got stuck, the other developed pneumonia immediately after birth.

So, I will be fencing off the area every autumn from now on.


In other news, all ewes have lambed during the day this year. Yay!


And one of Guinevere's rams will be a wether tomorrow.

 

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So, a lamb kept yelling its head off in the dark.

I go out to see what's up.

Juliana is on the other side of the fence, the one by the road that I added because the dogs were escaping from the old fence....


Yeah. No idea how she got on that side....


Her being a relatively dainty 2yr old, I was able to pick her up and toss her back over the fence!

*phew*

 

[SA Farm]

I’m sorry about your neighbor poisoning your lambs last year! That’s awful!

Wonder how Juliana got out

 

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Sheared Tatiana. 40min

Moved her in with Vanilla.

Alfalfa hay in those bins.

Matilda.
Lamb or no lamb...hmmm....

 

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I need to order more ear tags.

And I need to find a different way to mark ram lambs so that I don't waste tags on meat lambs. Since I won't use a butcher, the tag is unnecessary.

QR rams should probably be on the butcher list immediately unless someone pre reserves one specifically.

I'm thinking white wool spray for the blacks & any other color for whites.




Vanilla, Tatiana and their lambs went out today!
I only tagged the ewe lambs, since the rams might become dinner instead of selling.

 

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Sheepies mowing for me.

Majin's fleece length! 4" to 5"!

Tatiana's fleece drying. But I don't like the leftover stains when using Unicorn Beyond Clean, so I ordered Kookaburra Scour & hoping it can clean it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Nice to have help with the yard work!

 

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I need to put a bin of baking soda into the creep feed area.