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Almost there…

Posted by kenleighacres on June 20, 2012
Posted in: Crafting, Farm Life, Felting, Fiber, sheep. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 3 Comments

I am enjoying a quiet morning before the craziness that is Black Sheep Gathering starts tomorrow.  I need to pack my shop into my car for my vendor booth, clean the trailer for the sheep to be loaded into, brush Kate so she looks her best for the herding demos, print pictures and information for my farm display booth, and a lot of other little things….but right now I am taking a deep breath 🙂

While I was taking my deep breath, I realized that I had not shared my Black Sheep Gathering Fiber Arts entry on my blog.

I used the BSG logo as my inspiration, but wanted to incorporate all of the wonderful breeds that can be seen at the show.

I used wool from each breed and most of it came from farms here in the NW.  The only exception is the Wensleydale and that wool came from Jackie Post at Wooly Adventures.

She lives in California and the wool came from Marley, a sheep with a LOT of character.

The Romney…

and the Border Leicester wool came from Coleen Smith at Blessed Creations.

The Icelandic…

and the Gotland wool came from Wendy Hanson at Shaggy Bear Farms.

The Corriedale yarn came from Katie Orr at Critter Hollar Ranch.

The Coopworth locks came from Lora Withnell at Rocking Dog Ranch.

The Navajo-Churro wool and yarn came from Karen Lobb at bide a wee farm.

The Shetland wool came from my stash of roving from the Shetland sheep we had for a short period.

The CVM wool came from Correy McAtee at Custom Colored Critters.

The Jacob wool of course came from our flock.

The Bluefaced wool came from Robina Koenig at Tumble Creek Farm.

A lot of these farms are good friends and are going to be at Black Sheep Gathering – I can’t wait to see them!

 Yesterday, we worked on my son’s Fiber Arts entry and I made one of my own…

My son made his own felt Rose.  We used a new kit to make our own pups.  The kit has molds and it was a safe way for a child to make a 3D felt object, less chance of poking fingers with the felting needle!

Her little tag reads – Live, Love, Leap – pretty accurate for the Rosie pup 🙂

Ok, break is over…back to work!

Make sure and say ‘Hi!’ if you are at the Black Sheep Gathering.

Bringing new sheep home

Posted by kenleighacres on September 20, 2010
Posted in: Jacob Sheep. Tagged: , , , . 8 Comments

Our new sheep are here!  A couple of them have been on the road for two weeks.  I wish I could tell them that their travels are over because I’m sure they are just waiting to be put on another trailer. 

Bringing new sheep home is fun, but it should be done with care.  As much as I would like to turn these new sheep out into the pasture, this would be haphazard because they have been exposed to a lot of different sheep and farms over the last couple of weeks. 

I would hate to expose my sheep to an unknown threat, so the new sheep will have to wait a little longer to enjoy the Oregon grass.

I have them in a quarantine area in the barn.  This will help acclimate them to our property and I can watch them closer for any signs of distress.  I am also taking this time to worm them.  In addition to buying new sheep, you could also be buying worms that you don’t currently have in your flock.  It is recommended to worm with 2 different classes of wormer.  It is best to flush the worms out in your quarantine area and not in your pastures.

In addition to Albus, whom you have already met – we have…

   

a handsome 4-horn ram lamb from Peg Bostwick.  His name is Sweetgrass Clint and he will be traveling to California with Robin Lynde in the middle of October.

Albus’ traveling partner – Blue Ewe Meg.  Very pretty girl with a lovely fleece.

An unplanned (but one I am excited about) purchase from Dan Carpenter.  Such a cute face on this girl.  Her name is Dandy’s Hope.

This girl may look a little out-of-place 🙂  She is a Navajo-Churro from my friend Karen at bide a wee farm.  Her name is Ursa and she is the ewe that I mentioned briefly in a previous post about breeding to one of my ‘brown’ looking jacob rams.  I can’t wait to see the resulting offspring and am hoping for something other than black.  I wish I understood color genetics better (I am TRYING) so that I could discuss it with some intelligence.  So, please don’t ask any technical questions – but feel free to help me in understanding the extension brown and dominant black aspects!  On another note about Ursa – her name means ‘bear’.  So far I haven’t seen that she takes after her name, except for maybe looking like a big brown bear.  The churros aren’t much bigger than the jacobs, but just that little amount seems like a LOT!!!

After Albus realized that Clint is NOT a girl, they have settled down…

now he has his eyes (nose) on Ursa.