Hello again from Maybelle Farm. I am writing this on Monday May 4th "May the 4th be with you" .......as my granddaughter told me this morning!! We now have 9 lambs here at the farm. First to lamb was Fergie on April 20th. She had a single white ram lamb that Declan named Bob. He is a beautiful little ram and very friendly. Fergie is a great mother. Next was Florence who had Gulmoget twin lambs. Burdette weighed 5 lbs. and Brigitta weighed 6 lbs. She is also a wonderful mother too. Rosebud decided to lamb on Tuesday morning April 28th. She had a beautiful 10 lb. white ewe lamb and a 7 lb. black & white spotted ewe lamb. She did a great job lambing and is a wonderful mother. Katryna helped me and they have named the lambs Hazel and Gracie as they will all be going to live with her later this summer. Next was Fignukin, our Merino, who had twins on late Tuesday night and is taking good care of her duo. She had a 10 lb. ram lamb we named Burt that looks like a little Bernese Mountain Dog. She also had a 10 lb. gulmoget ewe lamb we named Bindi. Onora had twins later the same day. She had been trying to lamb since late Tuesday afternoon and by Wednesday morning about 9:30 a.m. she was exhausted and could not push the first lamb out. I had to help pull little Benjamin out. A beautiful 6 lb. gulmoget ram lamb, and then the second little lamb just slipped out. Another beautiful little gulmoget ram lamb we named Bodie. Whew, that was quite a few lambs in a very short time. Three sets of twins in just over 24 hours was more than enough!
I think that we have one more ewe left to lamb. Pebbles is a beautiful sparkly silver Border-Leicester/Shetland cross and I can't wait to see what she has. On Sunday May 3rd, Enid, Bob and Emily came to visit the beautiful sheep they gave me last fall. We had a lovely visit and Leo was very happy to see them, also Snowflake! They brought 6 rolls of portable fencing and today I set up 2 rolls. The sheep are so happy to be out in the green grass.
This weekend we had all 4 grandchildren here for a sleepover on Saturday night. As you can imagine, there was a lot of laughing and goofing around. They watched a really funny movie with bowls of popcorn, all set up in the living room with sleeping bags and Papa's lift chair as Ella's bed. They got to ride bikes, play in the fort, help take water to the sheep, move sheep to new pastures, and are all such a good help for me. My son David helped with meals for the kids and kept them busy yesterday while I was working. Saturday morning Darcy and the kids raked up a lot of old hay that was in the front pasture. On Saturday afternoon David brought the Mahindra tractor up and moved all the old hay down to the manure pile. Austin used the Mule to bring several loads of the old hay down to the manure pile too. We got a lot accomplished on Saturday. Darcy moved our older ram Fergus his 4 wether buddies to the back pasture. She moved Chet, Cecil and Spartacus to the pasture by my brother's driveway. I am having a very down day today. After the week of delivering lambs, working at Cindy's restaurant yesterday and having the grandchildren, I have to admit, I am whipped!
Well, that's about it for today. Grass is green and growing very fast, sheep are very happy to be out grazing and it makes it a lot easier for me to manage. Life is good at the farm. So-long from Maybelle MaMa.
I think that we have one more ewe left to lamb. Pebbles is a beautiful sparkly silver Border-Leicester/Shetland cross and I can't wait to see what she has. On Sunday May 3rd, Enid, Bob and Emily came to visit the beautiful sheep they gave me last fall. We had a lovely visit and Leo was very happy to see them, also Snowflake! They brought 6 rolls of portable fencing and today I set up 2 rolls. The sheep are so happy to be out in the green grass.
This weekend we had all 4 grandchildren here for a sleepover on Saturday night. As you can imagine, there was a lot of laughing and goofing around. They watched a really funny movie with bowls of popcorn, all set up in the living room with sleeping bags and Papa's lift chair as Ella's bed. They got to ride bikes, play in the fort, help take water to the sheep, move sheep to new pastures, and are all such a good help for me. My son David helped with meals for the kids and kept them busy yesterday while I was working. Saturday morning Darcy and the kids raked up a lot of old hay that was in the front pasture. On Saturday afternoon David brought the Mahindra tractor up and moved all the old hay down to the manure pile. Austin used the Mule to bring several loads of the old hay down to the manure pile too. We got a lot accomplished on Saturday. Darcy moved our older ram Fergus his 4 wether buddies to the back pasture. She moved Chet, Cecil and Spartacus to the pasture by my brother's driveway. I am having a very down day today. After the week of delivering lambs, working at Cindy's restaurant yesterday and having the grandchildren, I have to admit, I am whipped!
Well, that's about it for today. Grass is green and growing very fast, sheep are very happy to be out grazing and it makes it a lot easier for me to manage. Life is good at the farm. So-long from Maybelle MaMa.
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