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 […]
Five months ago one of our ewes broke into the orchard where we were keeping our two rams. Here’s the result: a bouncing baby boy. Conceived in August when it was hot and sunny, he came into this world yesterday morning on one of the coldest days of the winter season. Arctic winds howled his […]
It’s around this time of year–beginning of July–that we separate the male animals from the females. All of the pregnancies on Spy Dog Farm are planned–meaning we do our best to avoid accidents and time our births for spring, sometime in April. That entails a bit of fancy footwork, inasmuch as we have to find […]
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