After a long day of working on the new lamb nursery, I went out to feed the sheep and check on Ms. Sweet Pea. Much to my surprise she looked like she was ready to pop. I went and got Larry and we both decided to make sure the first pin was 100% ready for them. After stocking the pin with water, hay and grain we were ready. We both thought we would have lambs probably coming in the morning, so we went had some dinner, I took as shower, and went back over to see how she was doing. Much to our surprise she was in full labor. We took a seat in the pin and waited for the package. At about 8:36 P.M Sweet Pea delivered a very healthy little ewe. We are still surprised that she had a single, but we are very happy she is big and healthy :) Here are some pictures of the event.
Larry getting attacked by Pushy and Roxanne while keeping an eye on Sweet Pea.
Sweet Pea mid Labor.
Here she comes!
One Proud Mama.
First Meal!
Little Buttercup checking our Larry
Me and Little Buttercup. I can't believe how active she was, she was wondering everywhere.
Proud mama and tired little Buttercup.
With Sweet Pea's due date approaching very quickly (9 days to be exact) I have thinking alot about a first batch of lambs.
First Born Moe-Nique. DOB 12/28/2010 Sweetest little lamb on the property.
2nd Born, and the first animal I assisted in delivering. Mocha DOB 1/9/2011
Moses DOB 1/10/2011. He was such a fun rambunctious little lamb :)
Moe-Hawk DOB 1/13/2011. Mischievous, strong little guy :)
I can not wait to see what little packages our girls are going to give us this time around!!
Today, Moe went to a new family! We loved our Big Daddy Moe and look forward to meeting his 2nd set of off-spring in a couple weeks. He was a great Ram.
Other things going on around the farm. Last weekend I harvest approx 128 ears of corn :) I was very excited when I looked at the first ear and saw corn!
The corn was the "earlive" variety. It got 4' tall and gave 3/4 size ears, perfect size we think. It isn't super sweet but taste good
Harley and Pushy checking out the corn husks. Not quite sure what to think about them at first. We also chipped the stocks and have them in a bucket making silage out of it. No waste :)
I dug up some potatoes to go with the corn for dinner. The skin was very thin, but boy, these were the best potatoes I have had in a very long time!
And of course, what is summer without Zucchini bread? This is Blueberry Zucchini bread :)
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