Our beginning of the year clear up to this last week has been crazy. Between lambs being delivered, sheep sick or hurt, things breaking down, and my boys school and sports right up to having to move again for the second time in less then 7 months (not the Sheep Camp just our household).
To top things off this computer is trying it's hardest to die on me. It is old and wants to retire but we keep pushing it along. I have a hard time letting go of things that have been around for a long time.
Take for example, one of my sons has an old ewe my the name of Jasmine. She has been a great mamma giving us big healthy triplets every time she lambed. But she is up there in sheep years and is having a hard time keeping any weight on. We really need to cull her out of the flock and my son understands this and is willing but I keep putting it off. Pushing Jasmine along.
Sometimes you just need to let go, out with the old in with the new!
Speaking of new ... well sort of new ... they are about 4 weeks old now that's still new to me. Here are some pictures of our latest lambs right after they were born. These are the lambs fathered by one of our rams, the North Country Cheviot and one of our polled Dorset ewes ( #4).
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| Aren't they cute? |
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| I am loving this cross breed! |
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| This is the ewe lamb. |
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| Move over sis, where's the milk? We'll keep the ewe lamb as a replacement ewe in our flock and sell the male as a market lamb when he is old enough. |
