Archive for 'Rams'
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 22nd, 2007 by
Frank
We brought the sheep home from Marlborough today. They’d gotten out three times in the last week and attacked their hostesses garden. Clearly not okay. And because it was a fencing issue, I had to go. That’s a 2-3 hour trip, and if I do it too often I lose the contract I’m working
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Posted under Death, Lambs, Other People's Pasture, Rams, Sheep, coyotes, 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: March 30th, 2007 by
Lisa
I’ve been so paranoid about how to get the rams back together that I’ve left them in their breeding pens and just not dealt with it. The girls are nearing their due dates, though, and are starting to get much hungrier, and the easiest way to deal with that was to get the pigs rams
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Posted under Farm Life, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy.
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Posted: March 12th, 2007 by
Lisa
On Saturday, we took a ride over to Dancing Lamb Farm in New York to pick up our three new girls. Mike Kelley gave us a wonderful tour of her dairy operation, and since I need an article for the next ISBONA newsletter, I’m going to save all of those pictures and words for that
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Posted under Bjarki, Chickens, Dogs, Ewes, Farm Life, Hay Hoop House, Llama, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Snakes.
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Posted: February 22nd, 2007 by
Lisa
It is amazing how well Buster Muster is doing. He still looks awful, but is his same-old happy, cheerful self. He lets me check him out whenever I go out there, and since I’m a big old worrywart, that’s a lot. The horn itself, or whatever the flesh that is left is called is
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Posted under Building, Chainsaw, Farm Life, Injuries, Rams, Sheep, Tractor, Trees.
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Posted: February 19th, 2007 by
Lisa
Oh, Buster, the cutest sheep in all the world, why must you be a Houdini? We came out this morning for chores, to find Buster with a bloody horn and blood all over the side of his face. Frank was headed out for an appointment, of course, but helped me put him into the carrier
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Posted under Farm Life, Injuries, Rams, Red Scoop of Joy, Sheep, Valerie, Wether.
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Posted: January 14th, 2007 by
Lisa
So, with the Shelties gone, we had an empty winter pen, and I really wanted the boys off of my front garden, so sheep wrangling ensued. Keeping spare rams is a pain in the neck, necessitating extra separate pens from just the breeding groups, and this year was particularly bad. Also, remembering that we lost
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Posted under Farm Life, Icelandic, Rams, Sheep.
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