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| Snow on Christmas day. |
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| Second set of live triplets on Christmas morning. |
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| Twins on Christmas morning. |
Mother nature decided to comply with our white Christmas request this year. The funny thing is two miles away in town there is no snow. The temperature is barely freezing and fairly pleasant.
I went out this morning to let the sheep out of the barn and found our second set of live triplets! Amazingly, it looks like the mother is going to nurse and raise all three. We had stuck a pregnant ewe in with our new momma last week to give her company. We picked the momma that gave birth to the triplets. They were already isolated from the main herd. I found another ewe with newborn twins at the far end of the barn. She would not follow the babies when I tried to lure her to the momma pen with newborn babies as bait. Annmarie had to come out to the barn and remind me to just push everyone else out of the barn so we could then bait her into the pen. She went right in with no complications. We are going to tag the little girl from last week tomorrow so we can put them back into the main herd.
Because it is so warm here the barn lot is a huge mud pit. It is difficult to feed the cows inside the barn lot. Two of those cows will be freezer cows in less than two weeks. Annmarie came up with a plan to repurpose and move panels on the lean to behind the old lamb shed to allow us to feed the cows at night and keep the horses away from the food during the day. I just need to implement the plan.
I went out this morning to let the sheep out of the barn and found our second set of live triplets! Amazingly, it looks like the mother is going to nurse and raise all three. We had stuck a pregnant ewe in with our new momma last week to give her company. We picked the momma that gave birth to the triplets. They were already isolated from the main herd. I found another ewe with newborn twins at the far end of the barn. She would not follow the babies when I tried to lure her to the momma pen with newborn babies as bait. Annmarie had to come out to the barn and remind me to just push everyone else out of the barn so we could then bait her into the pen. She went right in with no complications. We are going to tag the little girl from last week tomorrow so we can put them back into the main herd.
Because it is so warm here the barn lot is a huge mud pit. It is difficult to feed the cows inside the barn lot. Two of those cows will be freezer cows in less than two weeks. Annmarie came up with a plan to repurpose and move panels on the lean to behind the old lamb shed to allow us to feed the cows at night and keep the horses away from the food during the day. I just need to implement the plan.
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