May 8th, 2015…  Miss Bonnie was safely delivered of two sweet little ewe lambs!!!

The world rejoiced!!!!   How cute!!!

If you have been following our blog, you know that Bonnie is our rescue sheep…  a hard luck case that just has had a rough life even though we are all trying to give her contentment and peace.   She was seized by the Sandusky County Humane Society 2 and half years ago from a hoarding situation in terriable shape.  Her goat friend died shortly after from his poor condition.   She was living with a friend of ours, with all her angora goats, but it was apparent that she was just not happy…  she needed some sheep friends.   She wasn’t bonding with the goats.  She missed her friend Bart.  

So she came here to live with our sheep and we really think she likes it here.  She is close friends with Beulah and Emma and loves to watch over lambs.   She had a awful situation last year when she had a little ewe lamb that was killed an hour after birth by a mule that we had been watching.   It was dreadful, never suspected, and a sad story.  

So, we decided to give her another chance at motherhood because she so loves babies…  and today, she delivered a pair of sweet little ewelings!!!    We are so excited.   

They are doing great…   she is such a good mom.   I think everything will be very good for her now, she has a new little family to take care of.   And her babies are darlings…  

 

Iris is babysitting all the other lambs while Bonnie and her babies get the paddock all to their own…  

This is baby Laurel…   she is a very brave little soul!   Her sister is named Willow…   she has a blacker muzzle and different coat texture.   We are naming everyone after medicial plants this year!   It was going to be just herbs, but well, we didn’t like all the names, so we strayed a wee bit.  

As newborns, they are already bigger than the Shetland babies who are 4 or 6 days old!   We’re not sure what Bonnie is… she is a mix for sure, but we think some Suffolk and maybe a hair sheep, like Katahdin…  Now her babies are half Shetland and half Bonnie!   Will be very curious to see how their fleece turns out!  

Thistle and Basil have found a fort!  haha…  

This is Willow…  isn’t she pretty???  

 

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