Coloured Cotswold hogget (ewe not given birth) I love my sheep! I don't mind feeding them every day, even in the dead of winter, because I have a chance to interact with them and get to know them individually. Some are greedy little girls, always looking for the tastiest morsels. Some are shy lassies, and wait until the greedy girls are done, so they are not pushed out of the way by them. They don't get many of the tasty bits, but they are not suffering either.
The llamas are not sheep, I know! But I love them too. Karin may be going to a new home soon, because I simply don't need three. I don't even NEED one, but my plan is to keep Lucy and her baby, Audrey and since I no longer have a male, that is it for llamas at The Fat Ewe Farm.
I wish I had a better way to keep their pen free of manure, so they had clean grass all the time. More pens would be the answer, with a long time in between occupying each one. The goats are going to be moved this winter to where the new goat barn is. The ewe lambs will occupy the goat pen then, but there is a heavy worm load in those pens. It means constant vigilance with herbal powder that rids the sheep of worms, plus garlic and healthy feed so they have a balanced diet. They wast a ton of hay. I have been taking the straw out they don't eat and filling the shelters with it instead of straw. If I had two little donkeys, they would gladly eat up that left over hay and thrive on it.
The llamas are not sheep, I know! But I love them too. Karin may be going to a new home soon, because I simply don't need three. I don't even NEED one, but my plan is to keep Lucy and her baby, Audrey and since I no longer have a male, that is it for llamas at The Fat Ewe Farm.
I wish I had a better way to keep their pen free of manure, so they had clean grass all the time. More pens would be the answer, with a long time in between occupying each one. The goats are going to be moved this winter to where the new goat barn is. The ewe lambs will occupy the goat pen then, but there is a heavy worm load in those pens. It means constant vigilance with herbal powder that rids the sheep of worms, plus garlic and healthy feed so they have a balanced diet. They wast a ton of hay. I have been taking the straw out they don't eat and filling the shelters with it instead of straw. If I had two little donkeys, they would gladly eat up that left over hay and thrive on it.
Leda, and Thor beside her, the Icelandics. Thor will make a fine breeding ram next year. Leda is a great specimen of an Icelandic sheep, even if she is totally wild. She cannot help that since her mother was a leader sheep and had twins in the winter in the bush, only to bring them back in spring. How they survived the winter is beyond me, but that is why I love Icelandic sheep. Well, one of the many reasons.
OK. They are not sheep. Karin looks a little wary in this picture. Audrey is resting in the background. Her mother Lucy is alert and wondering what I am doing.
This little Cotswold ewe lamb is absolutely the prettiest lamb on the farm.
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