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

[Shelly May]

photos are great and I love great healthy looking sheep, you really need to come photograph all of mine, It would be a full time job, but maybe I could win the picture of the week contest.... with your camera skills

 

[autumnprairie]

Great job, I always did love your photos

 

[CocoNUT]

love Hank...he looks so soft and squishy!
(I was thinking about him being shorn...and what to do with all that fluffy, lofty looking wool!)

 

[SheepGirl]

Lol, thanks guys

Hank became a daddy today! (Well, a daddy again...he has lambs at his breeder's farm.)

A BIG healthy single ewe lamb that weighs 11.2 lbs I am so excited about this ewe lamb. At four hours old when I first saw her, she was nice and filled out and just the picture of health. I'm so excited!! Pictures will be on my lambing journal in a few minutes.

 

[SheepGirl]

Ciqala is limping :/ She was limping yesterday, but this morning I went out there and she couldn't get up on her own. Poor thing. It's her back left leg. I didn't feel anything out of whack on her leg and her hoof looks fine. She was breathing fast, but I think she was doing that because maybe she was laying down for a while (in the sheep shack) and so her rumen was pushing against her lungs. When I got back from school, she was laying down but she could stand up on her own. And her breathing was normal.

So hopefully she gets better soon. If she's not better by Monday/Tuesday then I will probably have the vet come out to check her out to see what's wrong.

And remember back in December when we bought that 8x10 shed? Well my uncle from North Carolina came up for the weekend and they built it today while I was at school Tomorrow we're doing the floor and moving all my sheep stuff in lol

 

[Pearce Pastures]

on Ciqala.

 

[bonbean01]

Oh no...really hope she gets better quickly...so awful worrying about a sheepie

 

[SheepGirl]

Ciqala is putting more pressure on her foot, but she's still limping pretty badly. She's been on her feet more, too, though, so I guess that's a good sign.

This past weekend, it was soo pretty. About 60-65 degrees. And a productive weekend, too. Got the shed built, the floor put in, and we (well I) moved all my sheep stuff from the garage into the new shed, which I lovingly named the "Feed Shack." So I have the Feed Shack, the Sheep Shack, and I told my mom all we need is the Love Shack She just looked at me and said "I think we already had that"

We rolled the 1/4 used round bale into the new feed shack, too! I had to tie the netting back together with baling twine so it wouldn't come a part when we rolled it. Then I stacked the bales of straw and alfalfa next to it and I got my trash cans of feed put in there and I have my dresser with my sheep supplies in there, too. And we also put a lock on the doors, mainly so they won't fly open in the wind. So now the garage is completely cleaned out of hay (first time in 8-9 months!) and we are able to park our cars in there now hahaha.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Wait.....you're supposed to park cars in the garage???

 

[SheepGirl]

Wait.....you're supposed to park cars in the garage???

Yeah! Can you believe it? Who would've ever thought that you can use a garage for that?!