Happy Easter 2!

So Cally decided to go into labor when I was supposed to go to sleep. She first produced a tiny thin kid and then two normal sized ones. I was sure the small one was not going to be able to breathe then eat then stand but she proved me wrong. It took 2 hours though. Now it really looks like we will have a bottle baby. She is cute though a golden buckskin. The second one is a flashy black and gold buckskin buckling the third one is chocolate brown with a gold belly and a white star. She has a curly coat though. Not sure what to make of that. I will get better photos when I find time.




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Happy Easter!

Day 163....

for the ewes, 



and day 57 for the does.

Lambs!!!!!!!

Finally, when I went back to work, Wilma lambed yesterday morning.  Tom checked on the ewes in the morning and then one hour later checked again, and there were these cleaned off lambies.  This is the photo he took then:

There's two brown lambs- a ram lamb and a ewe lamb.  They will likely both become mioget like their mother and father- a gorgeous golden color.  Since Tom took care of them he got to name them.  Meet Wile E.
and Wildthing:
We are trying to retain a replacement for Jocko since he will be nine this next spring.  So Wile E. is a possibility, but we'll see what Jenny and Sheila produce first before deciding who to keep intact.  Hopefully this will be soon!

No situation at Schoonover Farm after all

So it is looking like we do not have a situation at Schoonover Farm after all.  Today while waiting for Angie's kids to be born I was looking at the supposedly pregnant ewes.  The only one of the ewes that I thought might have been impregnated by our "one-nut-wonder" Barney that is developing an udder is Wilma.  And Wink (her mother) who I thought I bred to Jocko is not showing any signs of pregnancy at all.  So this afternoon I perused the photos of Jocko's breeding group and blew up the photo a little.  Notice the lack of any visible ear tags in the ewe in the center facing the camera.

I blew the photo up more- nothing in her left ear but possible a dark ear tag on the right.
Then I found this photo I took of the ewes before I put them in their breeding pastures.  Again the small brown ewe on the left of the photo has no visible ear tag in her left ear.
Now this is a photo of Wink's face with a large visible yellow ear tag on her left ear. I confirmed today that she still has it.

And this is Wilma's face photo with a steel ear tag on the right ear.

So it looks like I accidentally grabbed Wilma instead of Wink to breed with Jocko. Which means Barney, our "one-nut-wonder" is infertile like I thought, and we do not have 6 extra unintended pregnancies!  This news will be good for my marriage.  And it also means we've been feeding 6 ewes grain daily for nothing.  So now they will be kicked out of the spoiled sheep group and into the regular sheep group ASAP.  The old digital barn camera came in handy.