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Down Two Woolies

jennifer — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:36:57 +0000

The last three weeks have been incredibly eventful here. We are down two sheep, up 27 chicks, have 28 eggs in the incubator, and we actually went on a “holiday”. Even beginning to put everything into a time line seems daunting considering all that we had to pull off. The beginning is usually the best [...]

Go ahead, ask us if we have wool…

jennifer — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:06:35 +0000

We have at least three bags full. Over the weekend we had our sheep shorn. It was something that was quite stressful as we had trouble getting a shearer here. Having so few sheep means that we really aren’t worth it for many shearer’s. Not to mention that shearer’s are hard to find in [...]

Vaccination day part 2

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:46:04 +0000

We have just finished trimming hooves and giving booster vaccinations to the woolies. Often this is stressful as one of our sheep, scratchy is quite crazy. She has almost killed Izzy as a newborn, she has knocked me down at least twice, and has tried to get through very tiny spaces. She lives her life [...]

Feeding just got easier

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:16:42 +0000

Over the weekend we struck another pre-winter job off of the list. There is finally a hay rack in the barn. This doesn’t mean that the woolies haven’t been eating for the last year. No there has been a number of incarnations of feed methods.

The Hay net

First was the hay net.This worked well but [...]

Growing Up

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:59:57 +0000

Luckily the herbs hung on and they are now happily in their herb [...]