We are in the home stretch of moving to the farm. All the animals are present and accounted for as well as settled in nicely to their new souroundings. There are still a couple things left to do before winter like getting all the hay for sheep and horses here and covered. We also have to arrange in the next month getting two of the meat lambs processed as well as the pig for winter meat for ourselves. I cannot…
This handsome man comes home in one more week!!
We put the camera on Ewestace last night while Gus was working the sheep, she was such a good little sheep. She stood very still while I put the camera on her and didn’t seem to mind it at all. All the other sheep were very interested in Ewestace’s new accessories and here is that video. Stay tuned for videos from Ewestace of Gus working!
I thought I would give a general update on the farm for everyone today. Lola the pig and I have come to an understanding, which is Lola isn’t allowed to taste me or eat me when I go into her enclosure and I will continue to feed her. Instead of charging me and trying to taste me she now will stand on the other side of her pen while I feed her and change her water. I know this is…
I went to see my most handsome horse today and tell him that it will only be 30 days from now until he comes home! I was so happy that when he saw me he came to me without me even calling him. He seemed very happy to see me and that I had not in fact died since he hadn’t seen me in so long. I spent some quality time brushing him (he spent some serious time getting muddy…
I spent half the week painting the upstairs bedroom (which is twice as big) so that Jeff and I could move upstairs. Amazingly I didn’t get any paint on any pets and only a little on me. As we were cleaning up after the painting stuff Jeff suggested we clean the carpet, it smelled a little musty from being closed and the previous owners of the home smoked so it still smelled a little of smoke. I recently became a…
The most useful farm tool that I have is by far our Border Collie Gus, he proves to be helpful more than I can count. I know that if the sheep we’re to get out that I wouldn’t have to much trouble getting them back with Gus’s help (Purdy is another story) which is a load off my mind. This morning when I went down to do morning chores I saw that Jenny one of the brown spotted ewes had…
Purdy our guard llama has been here about a week now and I couldn’t be more pleased with her! She bonded very quickly with her sheep especially Ewestace, they all sleep together in the shelter at night even though I no longer shut them in. Every time I go down to give Purdy her breakfast or dinner she always comes right over to the fence as I am walking down to make sure it isn’t a threat to her sheep….
Yesterday we finished the first fence meaning ewestace and company could come home. I went to pick up the three ewes about five with Jeff’s truck. Amanda kindly caught all three ewes and got them into the back of the truck (ewestace started screaming her protests immediately upon being place in the truck). It was now time to drive home I made it out of the farms drive before I became overcome with fear ewestace would pop open the hatch…