Monday, June 23, 2014

What a wonderful day I love sunny Sundays this one started by taking the kids to work. Each of them was working today.

After delivering the kids to their respective places of work, I came home picked up some groceries got cleaned up went off to meeting. Following this I came home, got some lunch, got changed and went to work on the sheep Ranch. Pictured below is an aerial view of the Sheep Ranch currently. 



Arrived at the ranch to find that there had been a plethora of babies born this morning; this in turn required processing several older babies, emptying their pens, cleaning their pens and then bringing in the new moms. Processing consists of tagging the ears, de-nutting the boys and docking the tails for both boys and girls. The photo below was taken on my way out to the Sheep Ranch.



Once this was done we took a wee break for sausages and pancakes, strawberries and ice-cream. Right after lunch we moved a freezer and then it was off to process more lambs. This is a opportune time for giving their moms a pedicure which they don't seem to relish at all. In fact a couple today were down right bi*#€y about it.

When we got to the final pen, we were just in time to welcome a new little lamb to the farm. Fortunately we had made room so it was very straight forward to get mom and baby tucked into a nursery pen.

The following was taken as I was leaving the Sheep Ranch. This is one of the "free range" babies that is a very good escape artist.



The last item on our agenda for the day is chore time, time to fill the waters, feed the grains and finally the hay.  We wrapped this all up in time for me to drive home through the countryside in the gorgeous evening sunshine as the sun started to set over the western horizon. 

7 comments:

  1. Ok, I have a question. About 20 years ago I was on a sheep farm in Canada. They de"balled" the little boy lambs by biting them off. Seriously. I watched them do it and took a photo that they were very concerned about. So, do you do it that way? They said it was less risk of infection.

    Also, YOU MUST POST photos of baby lambs. Ok. I must see baby lambs ;-)

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  2. I will get you some baby lamb pictures... next post I promise. And no they use a medicated rubber band thing which while it slows them down for an hour or two seems to work very well.

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  3. I'm so glad you don't have to sharpen your teeth!

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  4. This is going to be most interesting. I Love the pics too!!

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  5. I love this...& the pics. I'm an eager "follower!"

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  6. Worked on the farm for four hours last night so will update later if I get a chance.

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