…then what do April Snowstorms bring??? Delayed shearing, for one thing. Shearing was planned for earlier this week, but a big dumping of snow delayed our shearer’s travel plans. Continued cold weather after some yo-yo-ing temps has us in a holding pattern of watching all the lambs for signs of respiratory distress and fever. We’ve …
Spice lambed around 2 a.m. Sunday morning, officially ending our 2018 lambing season. Her due date had been marked down as Friday, but +/- 2 days is completely normal. I had noticed she was acting a little differently Saturday afternoon, and towards evening felt confident that lambs were on the way, but there was still …
Spice and Carla were not due until Friday, but starting Tuesday night, they had luxury accommodations in the back half of our newly mucked-out, freshly bedded barn. Sure enough, if you think it may be safe to go run some errands, there’ll be a Romeldale there to prove you wrong. I decided to do a …
This past week has been a blur. Between Tuesday and Thursday mornings, we had 5 ewes give birth, all to twins. We had some exciting surprises and a little tragedy thrown in as well. As we reported earlier, Cupcake had twin ewe lambs, one white and one recessive. The following day, Tinkerbell gave birth to …
This is Cupcake’s last year with us. She is now 4 years old and had never given us a lamb. She’s also a “special needs” sort of gal. So despite her incredibly lovely fleece, we have a new home lined up for her with a fiber friend. But this year ended up being very different. …
Our first Romeldale/CVM lambs are on the ground. Sometime around midnight (yikes – what do we say their birthdate is??) Coral gave birth to twin ram lambs! The photos I managed to take don’t do them justice (they are CUTE!) so we’ll have to try for better ones in the daylight. Here we go:
What a season of firsts! Introducing our first recessive-colored lamb born here at Snowhaven: Wednesday afternoon McKenzie gave birth to a beautiful ewe lamb! We nearly lost her to hypothermia, but by the grace of God, she’s still here and gaining strength. Meet Caoimhe! (“KEE-va” 😉)
Announcing our first set of twin lambs – Irene gave birth to a pair of white color-carrying ram lambs late this (Tuesday) evening. Whew! Time for bed!
This evening, Mary AGAIN won the first baby race (3rd year running!) with an 11 lb. white ewe lamb. Mary’s “official” due date was actually this past Sunday, so we’ve had an anxious two days of watching and waiting. McKenzie was thought to be due Sunday as well, and Irene’s due date was today, so …
Seems like our announcements are always overdue, but I suppose that just means we are always busy! Just over a week ago, we brought home our highly anticipated Old-Time Scotch Collie pup! Meet Freya! Born December 3rd, 2017, she has 2 sisters and 3 brothers (2 of which are still available at Peace Ledge in …
