Princess Raspberry is Born!

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Miss Pearl sure gave us a run for our money.  She wanted her baby to be the last and special…  and she waited and waited and waited.  I guess she played hard to get when the fall time canoodling fest was going on.  But in the end, she finally gave us our last little baby of the lambing season…  Princess Raspberry!  A little ewe lamb, as sweet as could be.

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She looks like she will be a little brown or light cream baby, which is fine, since her mom is a dark steele color, but her father was a cream.   We really won’t know until they turn about a year old for sure, but seeing her lighter brown color says that we will probably have more of a lighter cream baby eventually.

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Buttercup has been very interested in all the baby lambs.   Which is rather curious because she hated her own baby so much!   And in fact, she has started to produce some milk!   Crazy goat.   But she is the herd queen and I think it’s hard to get past all the baby juice in the area!  It’s making us all crazy in love with all these little darlings.   Lambs are just so fun!

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So now we are done with lambing!   And I am so happy…  3 boys and 5 girls!   It works for us.   I believe one ram lamb will be going on to be a ram with his own little herd…  Fennel!   But Basil and Thistle are going to be fixed and stay with us.   I believe their breeding and temperament will make them perfect for our flock.  And their fleece will be lovely!   DSC_0222

Just so excited to have all our babies happy, healthy and sound.   Our list is as follows…

Basil – single boy
Fennel – single boy
Thistle – single boy
Ginger and Rosemary – twin girls
Willow and Laurel – twin girls
Raspberry – single girl

Everyone is doing great, strong and healthy. Only one baby on the bottle, Thistle. Born over a two week span.

Next up… hog baby watch! First possible due date… June 1st! More likely? Middle of June… second week or so! Two litters hopefully!!!

 

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the banjo player for Deepwater Bluegrass, and the editor of BuckeyeBluegrass.com as well as the main graphic designer of the Westvon Publishing empire. She is a renaissance woman of many talents and has two lovely daughters and a rehab mobile home homestead to raise.

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