Anna helping me choose flowers I have fallen in love with Anna, the Babydoll Southdown lamb that I was the midwife for 3 nights ago. She is the sweetest little girl, and amazingly smart. She now knows how to go down stairs, even. Anna likes to follow me and be where I am, since in her mind, I have the milk and must be her mother. She only cries when she is hungry or lonely. During the night, she sleeps from 10 pm to 7 am without making a peep. During the day, I let her tell me when she is hungry. Now she is drinking an 8 ounce bottle every four hours and it is really spectacular how quickly she is growing, though she is a true miniature sheep. The Babydoll Southdown sheep evolved small and they posses the best of all traits in sheep. Babydolls can be kept in an orchard because they won't eat the trees or bark, just the grass and weeds. Due to their small size, they eat way less than a big sheep and have better feed conversion, doing very well on a forage based operation with no grain. Naturally parasite resistant and hardy, they also offer very fine wool in the same quality as cashmere and although I currently cannot imagine eating one, the meat is purportedly delicious.
Anna was helping me in the garden today. I was industrious and planted four flower beds at the bed and breakfast house. When Anna got tired, she climbed up the stairs to the door mat and plopped herself down for a nap. She felt safe there. Funny, but that is Harley's (the big Maremma dog) favourite place for a nap too. Anna is sleeping in a cardboard box in the porch currently, but she will soon outgrow that box and be relegated to an outdoor kennel for the night. Anna is worth one thousand dollars in the Babydoll market. She is purebred and out of two registered parents. Babydoll sheep are considered endangered and rare at the current time, hence the high price tag. More and more small holders want sheep, but do not want the commercial types and are looking for miniature Babydolls. Anna will stay on the farm and continue as part of the flock until I retire and decide to sell the critters.
In the meantime, she is the most adorable little baby lamb I have ever had the pleasure to know!
Anna was helping me in the garden today. I was industrious and planted four flower beds at the bed and breakfast house. When Anna got tired, she climbed up the stairs to the door mat and plopped herself down for a nap. She felt safe there. Funny, but that is Harley's (the big Maremma dog) favourite place for a nap too. Anna is sleeping in a cardboard box in the porch currently, but she will soon outgrow that box and be relegated to an outdoor kennel for the night. Anna is worth one thousand dollars in the Babydoll market. She is purebred and out of two registered parents. Babydoll sheep are considered endangered and rare at the current time, hence the high price tag. More and more small holders want sheep, but do not want the commercial types and are looking for miniature Babydolls. Anna will stay on the farm and continue as part of the flock until I retire and decide to sell the critters.
In the meantime, she is the most adorable little baby lamb I have ever had the pleasure to know!
Anna sleeping on the door mat.
Anna watching me garden.
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