purplequeenvt - Ivy Knoll Farm

[BrownSheep]

I dream of having a shearer come out. My dad is still in the you can do it yourself school of thought. Well have over thirty this year and last year not everybody got sheared....I may or may not sneak in a shearer.

 

[Queen Mum]

Thanks for the info Purplequeen. Very interesting to hear. Who knew.

I love those spots. I would keep her.

What beautiful sheep you have.

 

[purplequeenvt]

I dream of having a shearer come out. My dad is still in the you can do it yourself school of thought. Well have over thirty this year and last year not everybody got sheared....I may or may not sneak in a shearer.

I think I would sneak in a shearer! I've sheared all of our sheep before, but it took a long time and I killed my already bum shoulder. :/

 

[purplequeenvt]

I've been sick for the past week, not fun at all. I'm starting to feel better, but not back to 100%.

The ewes are getting closer to lambing.....maybe in the next week. We've got some cute udders on the first timers! There are 3 ewes that I'm not positive are pregnant. One looks like she might have aborted her lamb (shearer found blood in her britch wool), one got very sick during breeding season, and the 3rd is an older Romney that we weren't meaning to breed in the 1st place.

 

[Southern by choice]

that confirms it... people are cathing the "sickness" through the forum!

seriously though... I really hope you get better soon.

 

[purplequeenvt]

that confirms it... people are cathing the "sickness" through the forum!

seriously though... I really hope you get better soon.

Interesting thought..... wonder how that works?

I'm actually feeling better tonight than I've been feeling all week. We had a family bowling night and I think that helped. I stink at bowling though, my best score was an 89. I like to blame it on the fact that I have to bowl left handed when I am actually a righty, but truth be told, I just stink.

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[purplequeenvt]

I'm finally feeling better. I was pretty out of it for a week. No throwing up, but super tired, headache, joint pain, etc.... I almost wonder if it was an allergy attack of some sort.

It is getting closer and closer to Lamb Time!! There are 2 ewes that have milk! No signs of labor yet, but I expect to see babies in the next couple days.

My uncle and I got the lumber to make lambing jugs yesterday and, if he ever gets back from breakfast with my great uncle, we will be putting them together today. We are repairing 5 panels that we already have and are making 7 more so that we will be able to have 6 jugs (2 panels each). That is more jugs than we've ever had before, but after last year when I was patching together jugs out of what ever is laying around......

I keep hinting to the ewes that today would be a nice day for having babies because it is sunny and relatively warm, but hinting has never worked before so I'm not expecting much response.

 

[Symphony]

Glad to hear your feeling better. Hope the Jugs turn out great and the Sheep have lots of healthy ewe's.

 

[Bridgemoof]

I have a question, the 2 ewes that you think have no milk, do they have any udders to speak of? I'm asking because I have a ewe that looks really fat right now and looks like she's carrying, but she doesn't have any udder to speak of. If they don't have milk, can they still have a somewhat developed looking udder or can they have none?

Glad you are feeling better btw!