Lamb update and my view

This is the view from our deck this morning. It's not a sunny day but the weather is nice and all of the sheep are enjoying the grass.

Sunny had to rub himself across the gate before I closed it. I know he's not a lamb but it's too cute not to share, although I wish I got the shot about 30 seconds later when the gate slide open and he fell sideways onto the grass!

I finally managed to get a good picture of Dakota (left) and Delia (right) both girls are dong very well and looking forward to going to their new home later this year.

Along with Winston who is very handsome and has some lovely looking horn buds so far.

Wilbur will also be leaving for a great new home as a pet wether. I think he'll enjoy all it (maybe not the wethering part lol) but he loves the attention, and is the friendliest of this years lambs.

He'll have his sister Dixie with him who is also very friendly and I am excited to follow their progress as they grow up. I love hearing from the owner with updates and pictures, and helping out where I can by answering any questions.

Wallace (left) also has a new home, isn't he beautiful? I love his fleece. So far William doesn't but I am sure he'll find one soon. Both boys look like horn buds are doing well.

Diana is the only other lamb remaining for sale. Until sold she is happy here and enjoying lamb races and grass.

Derry has been sold and is now living the high life on Beech Hill farm and ice cream stand in New Hampshire where she will be representing the Shetland sheep breed and getting a whole lot of attention. Daisy Mae says she's not going anywhere though. Even though it doesn't look like she'll reach the right size she's too much of a character to part with.

Finally Marcus is now 13 weeks old. He was photographed at SmartPak last weekend by their professional photographer and this is one of the pictures I got. He starts puppy class in a few weeks which will be fun.

I'm still working on my website http://ridgewayfarm.webs.com/ let me know what you think of it. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Even more fun, end of lambing.

Gypsy had her lambs on Thursday evening. Triplet ewe lambs. That brings the closing tally to 5 ewes and 4 rams. Here's the happy family group today I like this picture.

This is Dakota she weighed in at 5lbs and looks like she might be fawn.

This is the best picture picture I have of Diana in the back on the right who was a breach and weighed in at 4lbs. Her legs are still straightening out but she's doing well and has a very soft fleece probably moorit.

And this is Delia who was quite the surprise. She weighed in at 5lbs too and is so tall!

Here are some better pictures of Sabrina's triplets. This is the very handsome Winston.

The ever so cute Wilbur (he has little sideburns which I love).

And the tiny but perfect Dixie.

And just to show love to the other lambs here are William and Wallace who make me want to keep more rams. I just love both of these boys and their wonderful fleeces.

And Derry the lamb who started it all and looks like she will be modified like her mom and not black I think light grey. She is a very nice square girl.

Finally this is Marcus who is 8 weeks old today. He loves to play on his back and have his tummy rubbed, my partner calls him Cujo puppy when he looks like this lol.

Michelle you were the closet with your guess so can you email me your address puff614@yahoo.com so I can send you the sheep detective story :) Congratulations. I'm off to rest lol. Have a great weekend everyone.

Grand day out

The weather is nicer and pastures are drying up after the flooding. Today all of the girls and babies got to go and eat nice green grass. Of course the lambs made the most of the opportunity.

And they're off. Derry is so pleased to have other lambs to run with!

Here are some better pictures of Cammie's twins. They are both growing nicely and are very nice rams.

William is quite shy and still the bigger of the two he is a handsome guy though.

And I still can't get over how much Wallace looks like Sunny did when he was born. He's going to be an awesome ram. Can't wait to watch him grow more.

Sabrina chose to stay inside today so I think more lambs are on their way :) Have a great weekend everyone.

Ain't no foolin' about

Quite the day.

After all of the rain we have had our basement has flooded (again) so we spent time the other night family bonding and using wet/dry vacs to get rid of some of the water. I think that helped me get a stinker of a cold. So today I feel rough and have college etc...great timing for Cammie to lamb. She is a first time mom and looked uncomfortable this morning so we closed her off from everyone else, threw down extra straw and I arranged to come home in-between classes

to check on her. My partner was also checking every hour and would call me if something

happened. In my break I came home and noticed that she had one small hoof visible with some bag. I watched. And waited. And waited. 30 mins later still nothing so now I am worried and call my vet. I find gloves, lube, and lambing supplies and while on speakerphone to the vet feel what leg it is. Front. And a chin. With the vet over an hour away I feel around for the other front leg. I think this encouraged her to finally push seriously and within a minute with my assistance we had a ram lamb.

Introducing William weighing in at 5lbs.

All seemed well and I was pretty convinced that was it, Cammie wasn't that large. Sometimes nature likes to prove us wrong though and literally within 15 minutes hooves and a face appeared and another lamb hit the ground.

Introducing Wallace weighing in at just about 4 1/2lbs and looking like his daddy.

Cammie was wonderful drying them up and getting them to nurse. Both were up and eating within 10 minutes of being born. Everything seems to be going well. What a day to come home sick! Sorry the pictures aren't the best they were very young here and will look much better tomorrow or the next day when they can go outside and are all dry.