Melody

Melody: A pleasing arrangement of sounds, so sayeth the dictionary. Melody; a strong, fighter of a sheep. Melody, my new ewe that I love. Last month, we ran into Nova Scotia for two sheep; Melody, a sweet little ewe, and a ram that is Moorit coloured. They’re both Icelandic sheep, and are both about four…

Hello!

Today I’m just going to write a generic update about life on the farm, it’s been busy lately. Spring is on its way, so we’ve had lots of little, new animals being welcomed into our home and farm. It’s a joy, but it also brings a lot of work, tiredness, and business. (I hope that’s…

Two New Icelandics!

Ever since I got Lily, I had been instantly in love. After meeting her, I came to the conclusion that I really wanted to breed Icelandics. The search for a ram began. Lily’s breeder said that she would have some un-related rams in the spring. Daddy messaged her (near the end of June, so we…

Ann’s kids!

One day last week, we were doing chores and Dexter said “Ann had babies!”. I didn’t believe him, for he had been crying wolf for the last few weeks. “Uhh huh.” I said. “No! Seriously! She did!” He replied insistently. “Yeah, sure.” “No! She did, come here! She had twins!” I rolled my eyes long…

Patience, Satine, and kids out on grass!

We got Patience, Satine, Two Fry, Fanty, and Mingo outside! Last year we set up a six strand electric fenced in pasture. Patience and Satine are probably our most troublesome goats in the case of keeping them in a fence – they usually jump. Satine is a hit and miss, sometimes she jumps, sometimes she…

Get out of my barn!

We put up an electric net for the goats and Faith, and put some of them outside. They have really enjoyed being out there! We set the net up around our garden, we are going to let them eat it right down so that there will be less grass, and thus it will be easier…

Kidding Season!

So far, Patience had a female kid named Two fry, Satine had twins, Ruth had twins, and then Naomi had twins as well! It has been so exciting to go out to do chores each morning, knowing that there is the possibility of finding a baby goat, or two! It’s even more exciting when you…

New Goats

We were out in the barn doing chores when I heard Daddy call out “Baby goats!!”. I dropped everything and flew across the barn to our stall and pen area. In the first goat pen I saw two little goats in with Satine. Satine had kids again! I could not restrain myself, I just HAD…

Patience’s Daughter

Today, on March19th, Patience had a little kid. Patience was the daughter of Satine, our little bottle goat that lived in the house, do you remember her? I was about to get my coat and boots on to go do chores, when Dexter- who had already started his chores just minutes before-, came in the…

Lily The Icelandic Sheep

I’ve been looking for some Icelandic sheep for a little while now. Icelandic sheep are supposed to be very hardy sheep, they are good for meat, milk and wool, and they are supposed to be good mothers. Our sheep die a lot, they do not grow very big, and Brie and April were the only…

Bottle Lamb

I still give Patience two litres of milk a day, and she appreciates it a lot. I find that bottle fed animals are always the nicest. Faith is afraid of me, she runs from me, and she bleats for April when I hold her. I have started giving her grain, but it wasn’t enough. So…

April’s little lambs

Both of the little lambs are named, and April is taking very good care of them. April is a great mother, and the lambs are so cute! We named the boy Jack. We named the girl April, and to stay with the theme, we named the lamb Jack, after the Jack O Lantern. He is…

April’s little lambs

We have a Romanov sheep that was supposed to lamb sometime in June. Today, on June 28th, she had them. Dexter and I were standing on the deck, and the sheep were in a paddock right beside us. I noticed that April was lying down on the ground, and her head was lifted up high….

Patience

Well, a couple days ago, someone came to look at Siri. He had a son and a daughter. They lived in a house, and they were renting some land from someone next door (I do not know if “renting” is the right word for this sentence). They had rented this land so that they could…

Pasture animals

This week, most of our animals are out in the pasture. We put the cows out in the pasture, and brought the sheep, the goats, Patience, and Rocket. They were doing well on fresh, new grass. Then it came time to milk the goats, we brought out Satine, and Siri. But the sheep and the…

Lamb, and Goat Total

As you probably know, we have had a lot of sheep, and goats going into labour recently. I thought I would total up how many were born on our little homestead, and how many made it. First, let’s start off with the birth that happened first. Satine had her kids first, she had triplets. Two…

Getting the sheep outside!

The sheep and the goats have been inside the barn for quite a while. So we have decided to get them out for once and for all- until the winter. First of all, we got Duke; our Romanov ram. Daddy and I were moving the sheep. Duke was strong, and he kept resisting a lot!…

Miracles in birthing hours

When Patience survived, it was most definitely a miracle. With that being a miracle, I have another two (mostly one) to share. March 28th, Briee, one of our pregnant Romanov sheep had two little lambs. It was dark out, and Briee kept yawning so cutely, but I felt bad that she was sooo tired. She…

Adventures of Patience the goat, the Miracle goat.

This post and the following are adventures of Patience the goat, who has not any patience. The daughter of Satine, a triplet, and the one and only house goat!! We have a lot of animals. A lot, a lot. One of them, named Satine, had a baby. Not one, but three. One of those three…

Live stock!

Let’s get you to meet our live stock! Satine Satine. Satine is a white goat.  When she is being milked, she kicks! Even when she has grain, she’ll kick, but way less! But she loves us, and she is our only goat in milk. Satine is an Alpine. Montee Montee. He is a black, and…