Meet Bella!
Bella is McKenzie’s long-awaited lamb. Get ready for some cuteness overload – we’re completely smitten with her!
A Quick Update and Picture of the Day
The long version may have to wait, but the short story is this: Mary’s lamb is two weeks old today. Sadly, he has entropion of one lower eyelid which was treated at the vet’s this morning with a couple stitches and he’s wandering around our kitchen until the sedative wears off. He’s kinda loud! In …
Archie – the puppy?
Archie is finally starting to act more like the snuggly little sweetheart we’d hoped he be when we made the hard decision to wether him. Lately, he even comes when called! (Sadly, the camera didn’t start rolling til just AFTER I called his name…)
The New Girl (er… Llady?)
Sunday afternoon we went llama shopping. It’s really strange to tell people that’s what you’ve got going on, and watch them register what you just said. But yes, a-llama shopping we did go. Back in December we lost our sweet Veronika, and Atlantica has bearing the responsibility of guarding all those sweet fuzzy-butts by herself. …
Play Time!
Slowly but surely, I’ve been dyeing small batches of the remainder of Tinkerbell’s 2016 fleece. The plan is to card each color separately, then combine some of them into fun batts with gold and/or copper add-ins. Should be fun to see how they turn out!
Sometimes You Just Need a Trim
I love Cupcake’s fuzzy face. But sometimes, all that delightful fuzz can become somewhat limiting… to a poor ewe’s eyesight! Cupcake looked like her cuteness was becoming a bit of a burden, so on the advice of another shepherd, we tracked down a pair of utility shears (they’ll cut anything and are much safer than …
The New Boy
This weekend took an unexpected turn and ended up becoming quite an adventure! We ended up driving across the state with a large dark ram in the back of our truck. Steve drew a lot of attention in the McDonald’s parking lot! (Someone even asked if he was a llama…) We were headed to Cherich …
Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup – Picture of the Day
Icie roosters are beautiful, but you can only keep so many at a time. Good thing they’re also incredibly delicious!
Picture of the Day
Dinner time!
Eggs Away!
Well, the weather didn’t cooperate for a decent picture today (snowing too hard). But the good news is that our formerly depressing egg production rate has increased dramatically! Last weekend the coop got a thorough cleaning and we upgraded our feed to the most natural currently available to us. But I think the biggest factor …