Sunday Daily Dose of Cute: Back in Black

And Posh's Baby Boy - First Day in the Green Grass

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Friday Daily Dose of Cute:The Littlest Member of the Flock

Doris's Bouncing Baby Boy, Two Days Old

Current lamb count: 30. Number of still pregnant ewes: 2. Number of days this ridiculously drawn out lambing season (our longest ever) has lasted so far: 79. Number of days we expected it to last: about 30. Number of questions about lambs, puppies, cows, roosters, baby chicks, wild mushrooms, coyotes, and Sarah Kate's Mickey Mouse nose you've asked lately in the comments section that I haven't had a chance to answer: an embarrassingly large number. (Sorry!)

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where we'd probably get a lot more done around here if we weren't constantly bombarded by so much cuteness.

Wednesday Daily Dose of Cute:Back in the Hay Day

Snugglebunny's Twin Boy Trying to Reach Some Lunch on 5/6

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where all the new lambs are now happily munching on fresh spring grass in the fields, which is well within their reach. Well, except Doris' baby boy who was just born this evening. For now he's sticking with milk.

Saturday Daily Dose Of Cute:Livestock Guardian Pups

On Duty or Off Duty?

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where the new puppies play guard hard and sleep hard - and sometimes it isn't easy to tell which is which.

Thursday Daily Dose Of Cute: Off Duty

Very Off Duty (taken 4/23)

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where there's always plenty of work to be done around the farm, but nobody's expected to be on duty (or even conscious) all of the time. Except Lucky Buddy Bear of course, who lives to work. He'll occasionally shut his eyes while guarding the garden or babysitting, and he spends time hibernating in his lair under The Shack, but in 6 years nobody has ever actually seen this Australian/English Shepherd sleep.

Wednesday Daily Dose Of Cute: Better than Kisses

One Dog Clean Up Crew

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© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where Bear loves babies, and all the babies love Bear. Well, except for the baby chickens. Baby chickens don't love anybody but their mother - and each other. And food of course.

Monday Daily Dose of Cute: Way to Go, Zelda!

Bye Bye Big Belly, Hello Little Boy & Girl

Thank goodness. You know she's got to be feeling better now that those babies are on the ground, especially since it's 90 degrees in the shade today. As you can see, though, her appetite hasn't diminished. More photos to follow - Zelda's very proud. And her twins are very cute!

© 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where sometimes all you have to do to jump start lambing season is leave the farm for a while - which is what happened yesterday afternoon. All three are doing just fine.

Tuesday Daily Dose Of Cute

Hello!

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Monday Daily Dose Of Cute:Sleeping With A Smile?

First Day Out Of The Bonding Suite Is Exciting & Exhausting

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where this little guy has been feeling under the weather since this photo was taken last week, but thanks to some tasty vitamin paste, plenty of fluids, and lots of TLC - plus another stay in a private bonding suite with his mom - he seems to finally be perking back up. Today he received the Vitamin D treatment - a day out in the sunshine on fresh green grass. Now that ought to do it.

Sunday Daily Dose Of Cute: Newborn Bliss

Happy Mother's Day.

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5/13/07: The Tail Of Two Mothers: A Mother's Day Story From The Farm

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Sunday Farm Photo: Mother To Be

Hopefully soon!

This is Zelda. She is, as you can see, extremely pregnant. Last year she had twins - and was the very first sheep to give birth. This year she just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. A week and a half ago I put her in a bonding suite because she was so enormous I figured she was going to have a baby or two any minute.

Nothing happened. For six days.

My guilt and her well being demanded that she be let out, and I figured Sheep Freedom Day was the perfect time. All that fresh spring grass would no doubt jump start her into labor, just like at the New York pizzeria I read about years ago where pregnant women past their due date order a special prego pizza and proceed to go into labor, sometimes while still at the restaurant.

My plan worked beautifully—for two other pregnant ewes.

Meanwhile Zelda is now back in a bonding suite, complaining loudly and looking impossibly huge. Any time, Zelda, any time!

Current lamb count: 27. Number of still pregnant ewes, including Zelda: 5. Number of pregnant ewes who will probably give birth before Zelda: 4.

© FarmgirlFare.com, the any minute foodie farm blog where every day feels like Mother's Day this time of year.

Thursday Daily Dose Of Cute

Lamb Crossing - Don't Mind The Puppies

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Fluffy White Puppy Photos

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Wednesday Daily Dose Of Cute: All Day Hay Buffet

Kids Eat Free!

Sorry, No Puppies

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where it's too bad the new puppies (who are - for those of you who have been asking - Anatolian Shepherd, Komondor, and Great Pyrenees) don't actually eat hay, since at this feeding rate we're probably going to have to start buying kibble by the ton.

Monday Daily Dose Of Cute: Morning Wake Up

Snug As Three Bugs In A Rug (Yep, there are three tucked in there)

Current Lamb Count: 25, including one born Friday (Liselotte's), one born Saturday (Bella's), and one born Sunday (Alisha's). Number of times I counted the lambs and ewes locked in the barn tonight: I stopped counting the counting at 9.

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where the sheep obviously have cloaking capabilities - because otherwise our counting skills would look incredibly pathetic.

Sunday Daily Dose Of Cute: Buried Alive

It's Probably Good That We Don't Live Near The Beach

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where no lambs were harmed during this burial (which we had to share despite the slightly blurry photo) - he and his mother, who showed up moments later, simply ate his way out.

Thursday Daily Dose Of Cute

Seeing Spots Again

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where sometimes it's double or nothing during lambing season. Last year Snugglebunny lost her big baby boy (and adopted a little girl), but this year she had twins, one black and one all covered with spots - just like she did two years ago, except they were girls and these are boys.

Wednesday Daily Dose Of Cute

Baby Talk

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where everybody talks with their mouth full. Or partway full. Or maybe just a little piece of hay full. Oh, wait. Last Wednesday I said nobody around here talks with their mouth full. Okay maybe she's just chewing. Or maybe I just shouldn't be trying think up captions and tag lines this late at night. At least there's no arguing that she's cute!

Tuesday Daily Dose Of Cute

Bear The Babysitter (among other things)

Current Lamb Count: 18, including three lambs born yesterday. Eleven more pregnant ewes to go!

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where Liselotte, who looks like she's going to give birth any second, is now safe and secure in a bonding pen and has been ordered pleaded with to please wait until morning to have her lamb(s) because it's way past this tired farmgirl's bedtime!

Thursday Daily Dose Of Cute

Stretch Refuses To Eat At The Kids' Table

© Copyright 2008 FarmgirlFare.com, the award-winning blog where even four-legged kids in the country want to grow up as fast as they can - but some of us are wishing time would please slow down!

Wednesday Daily Dose Of Cute

The Sheep Equivalent Of The Kids' Table



Complete With Fighting

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