Archive for 'Icelandic'
Posted: October 31st, 2008 by
Lisa
After five days in the hospital, I am finally back home. What a pain in the ass, literally (!), this has been. With a direct blow to my lower back, the damage took a lot of tricky fiddling to figure out how to treat me. It was days before I could move without screaming in
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Posted under Icelandic, Rams, Sheep.
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Posted: October 12th, 2008 by
Lisa
We finally got back the socks that we had Zellinger Wool knit for us from our wool. It was expensive to do, but I’m so pleased with these socks. Now that it’s cooler in the mornings (around freezing almost every day), I slip the socks on in my crocs and then go out to
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Posted under Icelandic, Sheep.
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Posted: June 3rd, 2008 by
Lisa
I had a surprise this morning. I thought I was done with lambing, and that none of Spike’s girls caught. I figured his troubles with parasites all last summer stunted his maturity, but I’d give him another year to see if he catches up. But I woke up this morning to a beautiful
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Posted under Icelandic, Lambs.
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Posted: April 26th, 2008 by
Lisa
Marilyn separated herself from the herd last night, and I fully expected to find lambs from her this morning. Instead, she was down, and when I went to check her out, I found she had a prolapse. I’d never actually seen one before, but it was all we could think of. It looked like
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Posted under Ewes, Icelandic, Lambs, prolapse.
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Posted: April 18th, 2008 by
Frank
We’ve had entire week of warm and dry weather, which is good because we have a million things to do. The waterfowl went outside last weekend, in electric poultry netting. They started with a dogloo for shelter, yesterday we added a dog crate so the ducks and geese each have their own digs. They’re
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Posted under Carrots, Ducks, Frogs, Geese, Honey Bees, Icelandic, Lettuce, Mice, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Turkeys, parsnips, spinach.
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Posted: April 10th, 2008 by
Lisa
Flickr is now allowing short video clips. I finally figured out how to make my camera take a video and what software to use to get it to Flickr. (All by myself! Go me.) If I can link them properly in the same fashion, here are some clips from yesterday. I still need to get several critters to perform on command, so stay tuned, and hope for better weather. It’s horribly windy and cold out there today.
Posted under Birds, Bjarki, Chickens, Critters, Dogs, Ewes, Geese, Icelandic, Llama, Pigs, Rams, Shearing, Sheep, Shetland, Turkeys, Töfradís, Wether, videos.
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Posted: July 27th, 2007 by
Lisa
George, one each fantastic purebred Icelandic ram, for sale here in southwest New Hampshire: #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block;
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Posted under Farm Life, ForSale, Icelandic, Rams, Sheep.
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Posted: June 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
Last night we put the sheep in an electronet paddock with the idea of moving them when Lisa’s cheese class is done. They stayed there until 11 this morning. Then the fence went down and they came out. I got everyone back in and topped up all the critter’s water. By the time I finished
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Posted under Chickens, Ewes, Farm Life, Fencing, Icelandic, Reviews, Sawmill, Sheep, electronet.
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Posted: May 19th, 2007 by
Lisa
Marilyn had a little ram lamb, in the same pattern of most of the other lambs of the season, moorit badger-faced. Marilyn is June’s twin, and too was on probation with us. She had a single ewe lamb two years ago when Kevin and Valerie were farm sitting as we’d gotten sent out of
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Posted under Ewes, Farm Life, Icelandic, Lambs, Llama, Other People's Pasture, Rams, Sheep.
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Posted: February 16th, 2007 by
Lisa
Frank inspired me today as we were coming in from finishing the morning chores. The wind has really been howling lately and the temps remain in the single digits, and I’ve taken to doubling up everything when I go out, including my hat. He copied me today and said that it really did work, but
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Posted under Crochet, Farm Life, Fiber, Icelandic, Llama, Sheep, Wind.
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