Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[Bridgemoof]

I just gave all the sheep extra lovins and smoochies. I went around checking sheep behinds too. The Tunis has some mucous, Cinnamon the shetland has some mucous...and the Finn sheep is all rosy back there with her tail up. Clementine is not straying too far from the barn. Do you think I'll finally have some lambs today?????? I sure hope so.

In the meantime, Tim is off getting another FREE teacup pig. A non-neutered male. So I guess there will be little teacup baby oinkers around here in ....I don't know how many months? I have to go read up on the gestation period of piggies.

 

[bonbean01]

Hope you get lambies today!!!! You deserve some cute baby lambs to snuggle

 

[CocoNUT]

Her? What about ME Bon? Don't I deserve some cute baby lambs to cuddle at Bridge's place?!

 

[greenbean]

I hope you have some cute little lambies soon!

 

[bonbean01]

Yes Coco...you and your daughter deserve baby lambies to cuddle too...what was I thinking to leave you out????? I must be getting senile

 

[Bridgemoof]

NO lambs today, just the one boer baby who is doing great. He is a he! We have 19 baby goats right now! Whew!

Lottie and Uriah went for a hike in the woods (and not our woods)! They have been getting under the electric wire down at Jacob beach. The wire was a temporary fix to keep the horses in until the guys finish that board fence that got washed away. Anyways, Tim went down there to feed and called me and said Lottie and Uriah were gone. So I trekked up into the woods behind Finn Mountain and found them way off in the woods. I had to drag that dumb ^&@#& Uriah by his horns through the slippery wet woods to get him home without him ramming me. So they are spending the night on Finn Mountain, which is vacant by the way, sine the momma and baby goats don't like it. all they do is hang out on the wall by the gate. They've never gone in the shelter up there. We bring them down there every morning, then bring them back up to the barn every night. What a pain!

We also have a new teeny tiny teacup pig in the house. He's white with little black spots. Pretty friendly, very small. I can't wait for him to meet Blossom but I don't think Taco the big pig should be there for the intros. I'm not sure how he would react. So now we need to figure out a way to get this pig out of the house ASAP! Tim got him for free on CL, what else is new..

 

[alsea1]

You guys have quite the animal count. How in the world do you stay on top of it all?

 

[Bridgemoof]

We barely do, Alsea!

Clementine lambed! See my lambing thread for the full report!

 

[Southern by choice]

you have to be soooo happy. I think you really needed a lambie "fix"!

 

[Bridgemoof]

I am SO happy about my lambs! Was so touch and go with the one, I can't believe we managed to tube feed it and it perked right up! Tube feeding wasn't nearly as scary as we thought it was going to be. Two girls around 7 pounds each, so sweet! I certainly did need that lambing fix!

The baby goats are all running around and are as cute as can be, but the lambs just exemplify sweetness. And the way the mommy just coos and nuzzles them is something else. I am beat tired though because I was up most of the night. I went back to sleep about 6 a.m. for an hour. Tonight I have to drive to Bon's and stay the night so we can go see her breast specialists at 8 a.m. I just hope that nobody else lambs tonight while I'm not here.

Turns out the teacup pig we got is neutered! So we can't even breed them, not that we need more animals, but that's why Tim got it.