Jamaica, VT that is! Saturday 5/20 come to the 3rd Annual Jamaica Fiber Festival from 10-5 for all the fiber fun you can have in one day! From live music to sheep shearing to lots of vendors selling everything fiber related and food too. The fun is up and down Main St...
The show must go on and it did at the NH Sheep and Wool Festival despite the torrential rains in New England since Friday. It broke the record books! These are pictures of part of the fairgrounds Sunday morning. I found 6 sheep in pens in this barn on Saturday evening...
The NH Sheep and Wool festival is this coming weekend... are you coming to visit? It's really a great festival, for anyone interested in fiber and fiber producing livestock. The weather does not look perfect, but that is normal! In fact, it's a great event to come to...
"You must want this more than anything and love it totally. It is a 24/7 commitment and is way too difficult and too heart-breaking to do if you don't want it and love it completely." "What It Takes To Be a Shepherd" Liz VolkerAs I was doing the chores tonight after...
We are in the midst of a nice spring rainy spell, so needed this year (thought I'd never say that after the past few years!). The lambs are not too rambuctious in this weather, they instinctively just wait it out. Trinity, absent from this picture, prefers to rest in...
I can't believe how fast these lambs grow up. They all are eating hay, grain, mineral salt and drinking water, grazing on the grass and still nursing too! Even Trinity is taking almost 50 oz of milk replacer a day now! Plus the 4 oldest lambs are all chewing cud....
The past few days have afforded me some time to be able to commune with the flock during their reasonably dull existence of eating, nursing and resting. They are a good group, some more gregarious than others, some want to be left alone while others are right in my...
What a difference a day makes. We let Memphis out again with her lamb last night (she'd had all day to ponder her situation!) and she strolled out through the barn, past Ashley and her lamb, Jackie, Bea and all the other lambs, stepped out into the late day sun and...
The "good" are Bea, Jackie and their 4 lambs., they are completely settled to life as lambs and mother ewes, nursing, feeding, sunning, running, a sight to behold. The "bad" has been Memphis who injured her udder on lambing day and we have been milking the blood out...
Bea's lambs have stolen this spot to do all their resting during the day. They take the same postion next to each other as they watch all the outside goings on! The ram lamb (rear) weighed in at 24# yesterday, he is 2 1/2 weeks old.
