Lamb Update

World:  meet Ziggy Stardust.

He was born around 12:30 Friday morning.  Around 1 am we heard him bleating and headed out to the corral to check in.  As he was getting to his feet, there were shooting stars in the sky, so we needed a pretty stellar name.  Also, I didn't know for the first several hours whether Zig was a boy or a girl.  Hence the David Bowie inspiration.  I think he'll be a rock star in his own right though.

Dutchess and Ziggy are doing really well and are together in the barn right now to get bonded and rest up a little.  We'll probably let them rejoin the flock on Monday. 

Lamb Watch

Update: 

still no lambs.



Dutchess is still as fat as ever. 

Unexpectedly Expecting

This past Fall, Adam and I decided that since the yaks would be breeding for the first time, we would take a year off of sheep.  We moved the rams to the other side of the barn, even though they were less than a year old and (we thought) not yet ready for breeding.  We planned on putting them all back together this fall, and then having lambs against next spring.

The sheep had other plans.

We apparently separated the ewes and rams too late, because Dutchess is pregnant.

Very, very pregnant.

So we will have lambs popping sometime in the very near future. 

In the meantime, Cisco is keeping a watchful border collie eye on everything sheep.

(And yes, he is sitting in the lavender boxes.  Of course.)