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Entries Tagged as 'lambs'

Babes in Snow

April 3rd, 2016 · No Comments · Blog, farming

We’ve had a bumper crop of lambs this week–twins everywhere you look. Right on schedule, too. We put the ewes in with the rams first of November, and five months later they’re delivering babies. But just as we were congratulating ourselves on such a mild winter (the animals have been grazing almost continuously for lack […]

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Babies Busting Out All Over

April 26th, 2015 · No Comments · farming

After a couple of painful stillbirths earlier in the season, what a relief to see our animals successfully bringing new life onto the farm. Here you see Grace, herself just a yearling, just moments after giving birth on the pasture behind our house. This little girl is as black as her grandfather. She was up […]

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