We named all the lambs. Last week, I listed all their names. This one at top is Captain Courageous, as he's made it through a struggle and never been able to walk. He was born March 25th, he was doing so well 8-9 days ago and would stand unassisted! However, he seemed to have a fever last week and regressed, can't stand again, didn't want to drink the milk bottle, really seemed depressed and I read that can happen with sheep. We just call him "Captain" and give him a lot of extra love and care, he spends time with the other lambs, but is inside our home at night. My husband finished an area with chicken wire over the cattle fence to make it more secure, so we don't have any runaways!
You can see Ferdinand our calf, who is 6 weeks old today, sitting in the background. He is in his own fenced in area, so mama cow, Bella, can have a break, she is in the pasture just beyond. Yesterday it was 60 F and sunny. Today, it's 58. Sunday we had some snow, though.
One hen flew to the top of the chicken coop! The rooster has been pretty aggressive to the boys recently. He just may become chicken soup. They are about 7 months old now. We're getting about 2 dozen eggs a day now. We are selling them for $3/dozen as we've had to buy a lot of chicken feed to get through the winter. Everyday now, they forage through our fields and scratch eating up new greens starting to grow.
We went to the Farmer's Museum amd saw the sheep shearing. Next year we'll shear our lambs who will be much bigger and have black and white fleece to spin into yarn!
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