purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[Queen Mum]

Little Eve looks rather peeved in this picture!

And your chick has decided who her mom is. You are rather young to be a new mother, don't you think Purplequeen?

Perhaps Moemmy can adopt the new chick in town and it will satisfy his craving to be a mother.

 

[elevan]

Eve is a gorgeous lamb!

And send that little chicklet to me...I'll carry her around

 

[Cricket]

Lucky you! And the weather sounds GREAT for the next week! I love your name theme. We're naming our calves where I work after cars--so far we have a Porche, Tundra, Ferrari, Caddy, and Kia, and then some will just be a fit with their mom's name.

Do you go to the NH Sheep and Wool Fest? Did you hatch the chicks in an incubator? Do you know what their mom's are?

 

[purplequeenvt]

And your chick has decided who her mom is. You are rather young to be a new mother, don't you think Purplequeen?
Perhaps Moemmy can adopt the new chick in town and it will satisfy his craving to be a mother.

I hadn't thought of giving her to Moemmy (I'm afraid may start calling him that )

Eve is a gorgeous lamb! And send that little chicklet to me...I'll carry her around

Eve is rather pretty. She *might* get to stay in the flock. She's a cross-bred so her original purpose was to be a market lamb, but all the ewe lambs have a chance to join the flock if they are exceptionally nice.

The chick got a chick friend for the night and they seem very happy together. Phew!

I love your name theme. We're naming our calves where I work after cars--so far we have a Porche, Tundra, Ferrari, Caddy, and Kia, and then some will just be a fit with their mom's name.

We did sports cars a few years ago...We still have Infiniti. I think she'll be the next to lamb. We've also done Country singers/western/guns (we had a huge Romney ram that we named Cannon, but we called him Boom), Lord of the Rings, Herodotus/Roman and Greek gods, race horses....I can't remember the others. We also did something one year where the lambs got names starting with the 1st letter of the mother's name - Oma had Otis and Olga, Violet had Vera and Virgil, Alice had Arlo, etc...

Do you go to the NH Sheep and Wool Fest? Did you hatch the chicks in an incubator? Do you know what their mom's are?

We have gone to the NH S&W fest, but not in a few years. I participated in the youth llama show that they held there.

I did hatch the chicks in an incubator. I was given/lent 2 incubators because I've been asked to hatch chicks for our county fair in August. I had never hatched eggs in a 'bator before and I wasn't sure if any of the eggs were even fertilized - I lost my big Speckled Sussex rooster in December and I didn't get another until only a few weeks before I set the eggs (I had other roosters, but they were either small, dumb, or both and the hens usually ignored them). The hatch rate wasn't very good - only 4 out of 18 have hatched, but that's more than I thought.

I know the mother of 2 of the chicks, we can only guess on the others. My little friend's mother is a buff Easter Egger. One chick appears to be full Speckled Sussex.

 

[Queen Mum]

Eve is rather pretty. She stands tall and erect.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Galadriel's daughter, Infiniti lambed tonight about 5:30. She, just like her mother, had triplets! She had 3 black boys.

Meet the 3 Musketeers

#1 (Athos) and #3 (Aramis) weigh 10lbs and #2 (Porthos) is 9lbs. Everyone is doing well!

Lamb count is now 7 lambs from 3 ewes - 5 rams, 2 ewes.

 

[Queen Mum]

Wow, When it rains, it pours. Beautiful boys.

 

[elevan]

Sounds like a boy year for you!

Were all the black lambs from a black ram?

 

[purplequeenvt]

That is only from 3 ewes! We still have 23 ewes to go. We have a current lambing percentage of 233% or 2.33 lambs per ewe. That's pretty good. Last year we had 15 lambs...12 black, 3 white, 12 ewes, 3 rams. I love patterns like that! But that was 15 lambs out 12 ewes. I actually wouldn't mind having mostly rams. As long as we get several nice ewe lambs (black or white) for my little sis and a couple friends to show and to potentially add to the flock. It makes decisions at the end of the year much easier.

Yes, the sire is black. Our Border Leicester breeding flock is mostly white ewes, but the majority of them are black factored.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Here is a picture, taken today, of the triplets - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.

They are quite the armload!