We have so much to do around here in Spring. There are lambs being born, meat chickens to take care of, plants to start indoors and transplant, mowing, weeding, planting, end of school stuff, planning for summer stuff, 4-h events, registering for the fair, getting all of our ducks in a row for summer camps… Read more »
Today was the day to take our borrowed ram, Fox Mulder (a.k.a. Muppet) back home to his nice owners. Get Fox Mulder the Sheep into a small pen, alone. Three hours later… Zanimal runs into the house, “Dad said Mulder is destroying the fence!” “Is he escaped?” “No… I don’t know! He just said to… Read more »
This is not a post for vegetarians. We took a few rams to the butcher on Tuesday. (Tuesday is their “exotic animal”day— but I disagree that sheep are exotic.) Zanimal (formerly Big Z, and before that Little Z) said we shouldn’t tell them where we were going. “Just tell them they’re going to Spanish lessons!”… Read more »
Mulder isn’t really our sheep. Some kind friends have loaned him to us, so that he might get it on with our lady sheep and make more black sheep with great wool! My idea is to eventually make felted top hats with the black wool from all of the sweet little black lambs. This is… Read more »
Cloudy Wether likes to get my attention by ramming me in the butt when I’m not looking. Now, I have installed an early warning system: I never knew it before: Cow bells are really loud! I hear Cloudy now, wherever he is.
Cloudy is such a jerk. He just rams everyone. Cloudy was a bottle lamb. He grew up with us feeding him, and he looks at people as his peers. And what do rams do with their peers? Well, they ram them. I don’t know what to do with Cloudy. He has great wool, but if… Read more »
Every day, I go out and count the sheep, making sure no one got eaten in the night. I look them over and see how they’re doing. An easy way to tell they are all right is to drive a little farm vehicle beside the pasture, and if they all run after it- well, they’re… Read more »
This is the Cutest Sheep in the Universe, Mimi. Mimi is a pure bred Jacob Sheep. She is one of Yoshimi’s spring lamb twins from 2015. (The other is called Yoshi.) Mimi’s horns go straight out and curve down in front of her face- not a common sight. I wonder what the world looks like… Read more »
I don’t want to sound all judgy or anything, but these sheep could have worn something a little less racist looking to go to the Dane County Fair last summer. These sheep were our neighbors (our sheep were in a pen next to them). Their people were really nice people. Am I weird… Read more »
