More Sheep (and a few other friends)

Now that the rams are back in their own pens it’s easy to spend time with the ewes. I had my camera with me the other day.

First I took photos while the sheep were still in the corral area behind the barn. This is Zora.

Belle, the ewe that I gave my granddaughter and that she showed at the State Fair last year.

There are two kids left. I didn’t want to sell the doe kids for butcher and I’ve spent time with them to get them friendly enough to be pets. This one has the markings of her Bohr sire.

This doe looks more like her Nubian mom.

Ginny was watching me. Do you see where she put her ball? She drops it through a fence and expects someone to get it for her.

When I change the fence to open up a new paddock the ewes are anxious to get out for fresh feed.

Every time I crouched down to take sheep-height photos, Jade and her daughter, Hazel, were right there.

One of the lambs born in March. This is Roca.

Pistachio, another lamb.

Ruth is a five year old ewe.

After a few days locked in the buddy-up pen where they couldn’t do too much damage to each other, we let them out into the ram pen. Jasper, on the right, has a scuffed up face, but nothing serious happened. I think they are impressive group of rams. Axle on the left is 2-1/2 and Tamarisk (middle) and Jasper are yearlings.

Here’s another view of Axle. I worry about that horn on his right. When I chose to keep him and register him I thought his horns showed great potential as far as being wide spread.

Here is Axle at about a year old.

This is Ruby Peak Tamarisk, the ram we drove to Oregon to get in September. He will be the sire of half the lambs born in 2021.

This is Rambler, one of two ram lambs I kept this year. He doesn’t have as much color as I’d like, but he has beautiful wool and promising horns.

While I was out this morning I happened to catch site of Tippy. Tippy is a feral cat that appeared several months ago. We don’t know it’s he or she, although probably he because we have seen no sign of kittens, which is a good thing. I don’t often see him because I usually have dogs following me to the barn. Dan feeds Tippy every morning and Tippy waits for him to put food out.