Jacob lamb

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From silly to serious

Posted by kenleighacres on January 19, 2014
Posted in: Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 1 Comment

Pansy came here as a lamb from my friend, Joan, at Mud Ranch Jacobs.  She is a grand-daughter of one of my favorite girls, Infiniti.

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Pansy’s personality slowly started to emerge and she began making me laugh with her silly sense of humor.

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How can you not laugh at her when she gives you this look while eating at the feeder in this silly fashion???

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Even after they slowly tore my feeder apart, she still chose to eat with half of her body in the only panel left.

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She prefers to get in Kate’s face…

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even when it means leaving the rest of the flock to do so.

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She slowly, but surely, became one of my pocket sheep.  Here she is with Folly.  They both love their morning scratches.

With her silly personality, I wasn’t sure how she was going to take to motherhood.  She is 1 of our 8 first timers to lamb this year.

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She lambed yesterday afternoon and took right to it, in a very serious way.  Silly Pansy has been replaced by Serious Pansy.

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She no longer wants me to pet her…she has a serious job!

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She checks on Milo…

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takes a few steps…

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and then checks on him some more.

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He is a good sport about all of the smothering attention 😉

I love the different personalities in our flock and  am thrilled with how Pansy has taken to her lamb.

Lamb Field Trips

Posted by kenleighacres on May 7, 2012
Posted in: Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep. Tagged: , , , , , , . 2 Comments

I went on a couple of field trips last week to see lambs at some friend’s houses.

Her lambs aren’t very small anymore, but I always love my visits at Tammy’s farm.  She has a combination of Border Leicester and Bluefaced Leicesters with an emphasis on the Bluefaced.

How can you not love those ears???

The fleeces are awfully nice too!

She wanted an opinion on what ram lamb she should keep and we always have a great time discussing certain qualities and fleece types.

In the end, she decided on keeping this guy…again, how can you not love those ears???  It took a lot of self-control to not come home with a wether 😉

My son was disappointed that she didn’t have her goats anymore, but was happy to see the local castle again.  How fun would it be to live in a castle!

 

The other visit was to Bethany’s, to see her new jacob lambs.  She bought a couple of ewes from us last year and bred them to our rams.

This pretty girl is Poppy.

This adorable girl with the pretty blue eyes is Daisy.

With our pasture full of BIG lambs, it was fun to see cute little babies again.

Look at the barn that was next door!  Put that with my castle and I would be a very happy girl 🙂

Big Babies!

Posted by kenleighacres on April 9, 2012
Posted in: Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , . 8 Comments

It seems like just yesterday that our sweet little lambs were being born.  Look at them now!

Sublimity is a first time mom and she kind of out did herself with her son, Dapper Dan.  I am sure he is close to weighing more than she does at this point.  She is still just as protective of him as the day he was born.

Poor Flirt has to brace herself before her lambs go diving in for a meal.

Especially when her daughter has horns like this!

Some of the mamas just love their big babies 🙂

We still have a few little lambs here, they are definitely outnumbered!  I think the moms can sense this because they are extra vigilant of their wee ones.  They don’t want them to grow up too fast!  I don’t have the heart to tell them that it is going to happen whether they want it to or not.

Rainy day projects

Posted by kenleighacres on March 21, 2012
Posted in: Chickens, Farm Life, Fiber, Jacob Sheep. Tagged: , , , , , , . 6 Comments

I have been singing ‘Rain, rain, go away…come again another day’ all day long, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Today is the first day of Spring, but it feels more like a good ol’ NW winter day…cold and gray.

Part of me would like to crawl into bed and stay there until the sun is shining again, but that really isn’t an option, so I am trying to keep myself busy with fun stuff – inside!

I set two fleeces aside for myself to work with and washing them sounded like fun.

Here is one of the fleeces…

Byeburn Hector is the donator.

Here is his fleece separated and washed.  I still have the mixed section, black/white, to wash.

Infiniti’s is the other fleece I washed.  Here is her mixed section…

and her black fiber in the sink.  I am starting to run out of places to dry them!

Another product from our sheep – horn buttons!  My husband cut a bunch for me and I sanded them, sprayed them, and drilled holes in them.

Here is another type.

He also cut some bigger pieces and I was experimenting with what I could do with them.  I’m sure someone who is good with wire could do something very cool, but it was fun!

 

I also started laying out my Black Sheep Gathering Fiber Art project.  This is my pile of goodies that I bought at the Spring Fiber Sale last weekend.  I don’t usually buy much at the fiber shows, but I had a list of colors I was looking for and I was delighted to see that Dicentra was there with her beautifully dyed Bluefaced Leicester roving.

I used some of her roving for the background of this wall hanging.

For my Black Sheep Gathering projects, I chose…

Maritime and…

Sienna.  These colors are vibrant and bright and different than outside today – just what I wanted 🙂

These poor little guys need some sunshine to play in, who knew the lambs born in January would have nicer weather than the guys born in March!  They seem quite happy to romp and play inside.

 

I think the chickens are starting to morph into ducks…they don’t even seek shelter from the rain anymore and I found them in the creek eating tadpoles and little snails.  True northwest chickens!

Enjoying the break…

Posted by kenleighacres on January 29, 2012
Posted in: Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep. Tagged: , , . 2 Comments

in lambing and from the rain.

The weather has been delightful and the sheep are enjoying the grass.  They haven’t been very happy with me for the last couple of months because I have locked them off the good pastures, but they are happy now!

These boys would love it if I opened a couple of gates for them as well.

The young girls, like bide a wee Shana and

Ruby Peak Penstemon are looking very cute to them.

The lambs are all growing, but still sticking close to mom.

Some are more obsessed  in love with their moms, than others.

Bronwen and Delight are just the opposite, their lambs are quite independent and it drives them crazy!  They are always chasing them down and scolding them.  The poor lambs are usually just taking a nap 😉

The break in lambing hasn’t been 100%, this little beauty was born during the night.  Her name is Pizzazz, it fit her flashy coloring!

The rain is supposed to start again this afternoon, but the break in lambing is supposed to continue for another 6 days.  We’ll see if the girls agree with that forecast!

Tranquillity

Posted by kenleighacres on January 16, 2012
Posted in: Dogs, family, Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep, Snow. Tagged: , , , , , . 18 Comments

The state of being tranquil; calmness; serenity.

The name of our new ewe lamb and what we woke up to this morning…

Snow!!!

It has a magical way of making everything look clean and new and refreshed.

 We rarely get snow, so it is fun when it shows up…especially since it only lasts a day or two 🙂

Not everyone shares my feelings though…

these two would love to have snow all winter!

I’m not sure our sheep would like that though.

I love how the snow sits on their horns and wool.

Ironside and Ringo seemed very relaxed  and had no problem sleeping in the snow.

Hector, Mac, and Aragon were happy to see us coming with their breakfast.

 

He loves it when it snows and can use his sled to deliver the hay.

The lambs weren’t sure what to make of the funny white stuff on the ground.

 Loving this day of snow!

I see you…

Posted by kenleighacres on January 6, 2012
Posted in: Farm Life, Jacob Sheep, Lambing, sheep. Tagged: , , , , , . 3 Comments

or in this case ‘I see ewe’

 

We have a security camera in the barn!

The camera is from when we had our last foal, many years ago, and I was determined to make it work in the sheep barn.  The problem was that it wasn’t a wireless camera and the barn is just too far away to string wire out.  I have looked at wireless cameras, but the ones that go the distance we need are out of our price range.  After the dozen or so trips out to the barn checking on Infiniti, I was on a mission to make the camera we had work.  Much to my amazement, I found a kit online that would turn our camera into a wireless system.  I was a bit skeptical, but optimistic.  My husband was just skeptical 😉

I looked at several websites that carried the kit and sent e-mails asking more detailed questions.  The customer service at Security Camera 2000 was very helpful and suggested a different model and an additional antennae.

The kit arrived in the mail yesterday and my (still skeptical) husband hooked it up for me…

and IT WORKED!!!

I love when optimism wins out over skepticism 🙂

I can look forward to walking to my office to check on things instead of the cold, dark, scary walk I usually have to take out to the barn.

Now for a little bit of ‘cute’ to finish this post.

New Arrivals – a little early :)

Posted by kenleighacres on April 29, 2009
Posted in: Call Ducks, Ducklings, Ducks, Jacob Sheep, Lambing. Tagged: , . 4 Comments

We had several new arrivals today, that I wasn’t quite ready for.  I ordered some Magpie Call ducks from Faith Valley Waterfowl  and they were scheduled to arrive tomorrow.  The post office isn’t known for their speedy deliveries, so I didn’t have ‘running to the post office’ on my list of things to do today.  I got a call at 11:00 saying that my ducks had arrived!  So, I ran up to my local post office – the location where I have picked up my ducks in the past.  The look on the postmaster’s face was priceless when I told him that I was there to pick my ducks up 🙂  He very nicely informed me that he did not have any ducks in the back.  I called the 800 number for the Post Office and gave them the tracking number and they said that there were 3 locations that they could be at – what???  Shouldn’t the tracking number tell them exactly where the package was!  Luckily, they were at the location I called first.  So, we headed in the opposite direction and picked up our new ducks. 

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I love this color!

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Here you can see just how little the call ducks are.  This little gal is 6 weeks old and will get a little bigger, but not a lot.  It was nice they were able to get out of the box a day early! 

Remember the wooly girls…

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here is Symphony post shearing.  I didn’t think they were due until next week, but when I went out to do evening chores, she had a lamb with her!

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Such a good mama!  He was dry and had a full belly. 

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She is very protective!  He has a beautiful fleece.  It is silly how excited my son and I were to have a new lamb after just having 40 of the little boogers!  They sure are cute 🙂