purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[purplequeenvt]

I was laying down taking pictures when QM baby goat decided I needed a massage too and proceeded to dance on my back. I wish we had taken pictures of it

It was just so cute! That baby LOVES AP. He thinks she is just the best 'people' in the world. He sucks on her shirt, and wants to eat her hair. And now he wants to give her massages.

Awww! Is this the baby in the picture you posted earlier?

We had a couple bottle lambs that did that to me once, it actually felt rather nice!

 

[RPC]

I really enjoy all your baby lambs and the race was pretty funny.

 

[jodief100]

Very cute! Love the lamb races!

 

[purplequeenvt]

I really enjoy all your baby lambs and the race was pretty funny.

Very cute! Love the lamb races!

Thanks! The races are even more fun in person.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Not much going on here the past few days. I've been taking things slowly since I've been sick all week.

The weather was gorgeous last week! 70s and 80s, but now temperatures are going back down to normal 40-50 degrees. Oh well! I was liking the early summer.

The chickens have picked up their laying. All winter I was getting maybe 3 eggs a day from 14 laying age hens and 3 or 4 eggs from 6 ducks, but now the are pouring in! I think I've discovered most of their hidey holes (silly chickens, don't you know that is what the nest box is for??)

Alexander (the Great) - Sumatra rooster

Leopold - mille fleur d'Uccle rooster

A good Speckled Sussex hen. She's using the nest box! My breed of choice is the Speckled Sussex, but we still have a number of "random" chickens until the number of SS has increased.

This beautiful lady lays olive colored eggs! That was a nice surprise.

Two of my "little girls". They are easter eggers (ie. green egg layers) that are just starting to lay.

"Where's our breakfast??" Two of the Pekin ladies.

 

[marlowmanor]

Not much going on here the past few days. I've been taking things slowly since I've been sick all week.

The weather was gorgeous last week! 70s and 80s, but now temperatures are going back down to normal 40-50 degrees. Oh well! I was liking the early summer.

The chickens have picked up their laying. All winter I was getting maybe 3 eggs a day from 14 laying age hens and 3 or 4 eggs from 6 ducks, but now the are pouring in! I think I've discovered most of their hidey holes (silly chickens, don't you know that is what the nest box is for??)

Alexander (the Great) - Sumatra rooster
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6595934571_562c258146.jpg

Leopold - mille fleur d'Uccle rooster
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6058/6869973566_552b4c5774.jpg

A good Speckled Sussex hen. She's using the nest box! My breed of choice is the Speckled Sussex, but we still have a number of "random" chickens until the number of SS has increased.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6054/6869975354_578dbdaee0.jpg

This beautiful lady lays olive colored eggs! That was a nice surprise.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6115/7016084205_6ea47e6e82.jpg

Two of my "little girls". They are easter eggers (ie. green egg layers) that are just starting to lay.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7066/7016082509_d6137c0afd.jpg

"Where's our breakfast??" Two of the Pekin ladies.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7038/7016081227_6e2205498d.jpg

Your 2 EE girls look just like 2 of our EE hens. Ours just started laying too. We just got all of our hens laying last week.

 

[purplequeenvt]

"Look ma! No tail!"

One of our cross-bred ewes aborted last night. I noticed that she was "off" yesterday afternoon so I penned her up and gave her antibiotics. I found the dead baby this morning. It hadn't been dead (inside her) too long, which is good. I'm just bummed because A) I hate losing lambs and B) the baby was a black girl with white spots on her back and belly and I really want some spotted babies from the cross-breds Oh well!

 

[Queen Mum]

"Look ma! No tail!"

Where did you leave your tail? If you don't go find it PurpleQueen might dock points from your book.

Sorry to hear about the baby. Any more due soon?

 

[purplequeenvt]

"Look ma! No tail!"
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7270/6877754236_be21e521d2.jpg

Where did you leave your tail? If you don't go find it PurpleQueen might dock points from your book.

Sorry to hear about the baby. Any more due soon?

She lost her tail a little early. Because of the cold(er) weather, the sheep have been packing themselves into the barn and more then one lamb is sporting a bare behind due to their tails being stepped on.

I'm a bit bummed about the baby, but I'm happy the mother is doing better. We still have 2 ewes that should go any day now and the rest are due in 3 weeks or so.

 

[Queen Mum]

Do the tails always get cut that short? I thought they were cut about two or three inches long.