Ava and her new twins
Nine more photos and a lamb report below. . .
Showing posts with label Ava. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ava. Show all posts
Friday, April 8
Sunday, August 1
Sunday Dose of Cute: Hanging Out on Mom
Ava and her Twin Ewe Lamb (taken 5/11/10)
Want to hang out a while longer? You'll find links to all of this year's lambing season photos here. And you can learn about our new Katahdin hair sheep (Ava and her lamb are both 100% Katahdin) here. More photos of Ava and her twins are here and here and here and here. (When you're born first, you get to be in a lot of pictures.)
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Wednesday, April 21
Friday, March 26
Friday Night Quick Dose of Lamb Cute: Mama Love
Ava and Her Babes
For those of you who need a daily lamb fix this time of year.
© Copyright 2010 FarmgirlFare.com, the happy to be of cute service foodie farm blog where there may be only two sets of twins on the ground, but the lambing season pics are already piling up.
Sunday, March 14
Sunday Dose of Cute: How and Why We Added Katahdin Hair Sheep to Our Flock
Katahdin cute overload
It's a funny thing about our sheep shearer—he raises sheep that don't need to be sheared. They're Katahdins, and this hardy breed has hair rather than wool that, as you can see here, comes off each year on its own.
One of the biggest problems we face raising our mostly Suffolk meat sheep here in Missouri is internal parasites, specifically a blood sucking stomach worm known as the barber pole or wire worm. For much of the year it's wet and warm here, which, unfortunately, is Parasite Paradise.
Despite agressively using both commercial and natural wormers, we've lost numerous sheep over the years to worms—and we've been comparatively lucky. I know of one farmer who had most of her flock drop dead from internal parasites—the day after they'd been wormed.
It's terrible. And while there were many benefits to having that extra rain during the past two springs and summers, it made the parasite problem even worse.
Tuesday, March 9
Tuesday Dose of Cute:
The 2010 Lambing Season Has Begun!
(3:30pm) Welcome to Babyland
(5:30pm) Cute, Cute—and Hungry, Hungry!
The short version is that our lambing season has started several weeks earlier than originally planned, and this Katahdin hair sheep mama and her twin lambs, who were born just before we got back from town (of course), are doing just fine. The brown one is a boy, and the white one is a girl.
The longer version—in which I explain just what the heck is going on, and ply you with more lambie cuteness—will have to wait until tomorrow, as we're heading back out, in the opposite direction this time, to hunt down yet more tractor parts—for both of our vintage tractors.
The question is, Will there be more lambs waiting for us when we get home?
Can't wait for the cute? These should hold you over for a while:
Lambing Season 2006 Photos & Reports
Lambing Season 2006 Part 2
Lambing Season 2006 Part 3
Lambing Season 2007 Photos & Reports
Lambing Season 2007 Part 2
Lambing Season 2008 Part 1
Lambing Season 2008 Part 2
Lambing Season 2008 Part 3
Lambing Season 2009
Lambing Season 2009 Part 2
© Copyright 2010 FarmgirlFare.com, the doubly cute foodie farm blog where 'vintage tractors' just sounds so much nicer than 'rattly old broken down tractors,' doesn't it?
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