New Arrivals

Hello everyone! Hope things are going well for you all. Things have been fine around here---mostly. A few of us kind of have a cold/allergies/sickness going on right now, but it's mild for the most part and hopefully we'll feel better soon. The weather is starting to feel lovely, nice and cool.

Guess what! We got some sheep...(about a month ago, but I forgot to tell you...)! They are St. Croix sheep. Our plans are to breed them and sell them and maybe butcher some for meat. Lamb is actually really good, you should try it.

The ram we got from our neighbors, the Pelcs, and the ewes we got from somewhere else. They were really, really terrified of us when we first got them, especially the ewes, but we have started hand feeding them every once in a while and so now they come when we call (most of the time). We named them Tess and Dot. Dot is the one with the black spot on her ear. They were born in April.

This is how we transported them, with tarps
and wood chips and everything.

The ram is about eleven months old.

For now, we put the two ewes in the small fenced area with the shelter and the ram (Jacob or Jake, it depends on who you ask) is in another fenced place right next to them. One day a few weeks ago we let the ewes out into the pasture with the goats (with whom they get along fine) and they wondered off. We spent about half an hour looking for them, finally finding them down by the woods. It sounds a lot like the Bible verse in Isaiah, doesn't it?

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid upon him the iniquity of us all. - Isa. 53:6

Have a good week!

~ Lindsey