SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25

[SheepGirl]

Thanks

But we will be putting shingles on the roof (probably today) so it won't get messed up. We were going to get the metal roofing and just have that, but it was too flimsy for my mom's tastes so we went back to the wood isle and got two pieces of OSB and we also picked up some tar paper. We have an extra pack of shingles left over from building the sheds so fortunately we didn't have to buy it specifically for the sheep shelter.

And then sometime this week I get to paint it to match the rest of our sheds lol. Luckily since it's small it shouldn't take too long.

 

[SheepGirl]

So right now there is torrential downpour...I looked outside and of course, my sheep are outside staring off into space with droopy ears. They weren't even near their shelter! So I put on a jacket and I went outside and herded them towards it. Well the lambs knew where to go and they went right in. Ali and Ciqala had to be herded closer. Ali went right in but Ciqala went right past it! So I got her in there and they're still in there. So I have a feeling they (the lambs, at least) wanted to go, but because Ciqala, the matriarch, didn't want to go, the others didn't move over there by themselves.

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Awww... I love Lady Gaga and Katy Perry <3 how do you tell them apart???


LOL!! Nice sheep

 

[Bridgemoof]

That's funny Sheepgirl. Sheep are pretty dumb sometimes! And oh really, that Ciqala! It drives me crazy when I see the sheep out on the rain when they could be in the barn nice and dry! I don't think we had a torrential downpour here. We were gone all day getting some new Finn sheep, and we drove through rain from Cumberland to Hagerstown, but when we got home the roads didn't even really look wet. It just drizzled a little this evening.

 

[SheepGirl]

Oh I know It's like ever since they moved to my house they would rather be in the rain rather than looking for shelter. At my neighbor's farm they would at least go to the barn when it rained.

But yeah, it was raining and thundering and lightning. It was only a downpour for 10-15 minutes, but it lightened up some and the rain was off and on the rest of the night.

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I just got back from my interview at the petting farm...and...(wait for it)...

I GOT THE JOB!!

It's only for a month, but it's better than nothing!

 

[marlowmanor]

Congrats on the job. I bet that will be a fun job even if it is temporary.

 

[GoatCrazyLady]

your babies are jist PRECIOUS!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Yay on the job! That will be so fun, too!

 

[SheepGirl]

Well today was the first day of my job I got there at 7:30 this morning and I cleaned the chicken pen and then I cleaned the guinea pen. After that I went back to the main barn and cleaned the alpaca pen, the rabbit pens, and swept the aisle. During the day I stayed in the main barn and brought customers through showing them the hamp boar, alpacas, chicken/chicks, ducklings, rabbits, guinea pigs, donkey, pot belly pig, and the york sow with 7 pigs. Well when momma pig got up to reposition herself, she laid down on the runt I was kicking the mom to get her to get up (no luck) and I ended up just doing my best to pick up her hind end and pull the lil baby out. Fortunately she was still alive.

And of course there was a huge crowd of people watching...

but anyway, after the school groups left the farm pretty much closed. And because I'm the only one with experience with animals, they had me walk the mini horse and the quarter horse to the back field, the dairy calf to the other side of the farm, the donkey back to her field, and I also had to move a huge brahma steer, a buffalo, an angus heifer, and an elk to another pasture and then a Kat ram and the male donkey moved there. I also had to move the calf in the dairy barn out to the field. And then I cleaned pens and I left

So here I am now lol. It was a fun day and I got 8 hrs of work in

 

[Southern by choice]

on your job and sheep shed!!!

Busy 1st day!