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

[Bridgemoof]

Whoa that sounds like a lot of work Sheepgirl! But fun, too to work with all of those different animals. Good thing you saved the little piggy!

Ask them if they would like another pot bellied pig I happen to have one lol

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Congrats on the job and high-five for saving the piglet! Bet the crowd was relieved!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Congrats on the job! Is that the really big petting farm over there that does lots of events and tours and things? I don't want to say the name on here. I've always wanted to check it out, but never get over that way.

 

[SheepGirl]

2nd day was better...there was no school groups there It made for a relaxing day. And I got to go around and actually see all the animals...rather than just go in and clean their pens lol (and help band tails on five newborn lambs )...there's turkeys, chickens, a dairy cow and dairy calves, goats, sheep, llamas, ducks, geese, emus, a kangaroo, a wallaby, a buffalo, a brahma steer, an angus heifer, an elk (or maybe it's a deer? don't know lol but he's huge), donkeys, pigs, alpacas, zebras, horses, cats, and dogs.

But tomorrow there's supposed to be 200-some kids there. They said some days will be up to 1000

aggie - this place has 3 locations, one near me, one in Jessup, and one in TX. Is that the one you're talking about?

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

But tomorrow there's supposed to be 200-some kids there. They said some days will be up to 1000

haha

A kangaroo? Cool

 

[SheepGirl]

Hank went out with the ewes today. Nobody was in heat today, but I figured his 30 day quarantine period his over and this is the breeding date for the earliest I want lambs so he went out.

It's so weird. Me looking out the breakfast room window while sitting at the table at four sheep seems like not a lot. But when there's five it seems like a huge flock. But anyway, I got a really nice picture of Hank with his marking harness on (with a red crayon) with his bright white fleece and a red/white/blue halter on and it's so pretty and clear and bright with the green grass and blue sky, but it's a lil inappropriate because he was a lil excited...if ya know what I mean

But here are some family-friendly pics (I will try to get better ones tomorrow...99% of the ones I took today were blurry because somebody always kept moving their head or their foot.)

all harnessed up for 'work'

him with my ewe flock

he has such a pretty face!

 

[Bridgemoof]

They look great together! So great you have a marking harness on him. He looks healthy and happy with the flock!

 

[bonbean01]

 

[boykin2010]

I really liked using my marking harness this year. I used red also and they looked as if there had been a massacre or something by the time he got his job done! I have 13 ewes so there was someone getting marked just about every day.

 

[bonbean01]

LOL!!! Never thought about the colour, but yes...red would look like a blood fest for sure