Thursday, July 2, 2009

Catching up for lost time

Okay. I'm trying to catch up for being a bad blogger. I know, whip me with a wet noodle.

Sage gave birth on May 11th to two ram lambs. That ended lambing for us with 18 lambs on the ground with 10 ewe lambs and 8 ram lambs.


We've been moving the ewes over to the Gingras' grassy areas. They've been grazing like locusts! Before moving the girls, Sylph's ewe lamb wasn't paying attention to where everybody went when they moved to another patch of grass. She started to panic when she didn't see mom, so she ran into the hog panels we have up for fencing. I took her to the vet to find out she had a clean break on the bone between the hoof and elbow area. She looked like this after the vet wrapped her up.

She's now doing better - the break has healed and she's not sporting some funny kneesocks anymore. But, she still favors the leg from time to time. She's also not going to be registered. She's scritchy feeling and that's surprising for a lamb, considering her mom is the oldest ewe we have and still soft feeling. Her dad is SheltrgPines Uber and real soft, too. What a disappointment.

Rain, rain go away.
Momma needs to cut some hay.
The sheep are sad,
the weather's bad.
We'll all be glad when the sun comes again!

Thus ends your poetry interlude.

One other exciting thing that happened, was that when googling the farm name, I came across a person who bought some of Celebrian's wool and she posted on her blog about it. Check it out on her blog called Able to Dream.

3 comments:

Maeghan said...

How exciting to see my blog name here! Thank you for posting about it. I just love Celebrian's wool, and really am enjoying spinning it up. It is still a work in progress, but I plan to post updated photos soon, and will let you know when I finish. I am more than halfway there!

Your darling Celebrian will always have a special place in my heart, since she is the first wool I ever spun. :)

Jen C said...

Maeghan,

I'm glad that you're enjoying Celebrian's wool. She's a real special ewe to me. I will look forward to seeing the updated photos.

Jen

Maeghan said...

Jen,

I just posted an update. It is really coming out so beautifully!

Maeghan