Triplets are the Fashion This Year: Everyone’s having them!
We are at nearly 300% lambing efficiency. If they aren’t having triplets, they are having quads…
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Fun in the Lambing Barn
Lolita the lamb-stealer didn’t have to wait long for a family of her own…
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Willing to Adopt
Lambing began yesterday: Melinda arrived in the barn at 5 am to find that Brown Betty, a first-time mother, had delivered triplets in the night…
A Sad Farewell
We lost Oso today. He was a really special dog and took such good care of his sheep. Like Big Otis, he was unsocialized to humans,
Go To Your Room…and stay there until you can behave yourselves…
Last Tuesday was the end of breeding. We leave the rams in with the ewes for just three weeks
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Goodbye to three dear friends
Last week, in the midst of the horrible fires up in Sonoma and Napa counties, we had our own little sadness here at the ranch, as we said goodbye to three of our dear old friends
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Shearing Day
Today was shearing day at the ranch. We sheared everyone, from the old retired ewes to this year’s ewe lambs…
New Chickens!
We had a dreadful heat wave over Labor Day weekend–the hottest days ever recorded in Marshall. Saturday the temperature reached 108
Gordy in Montana
Back in 2009 we got a new guardian puppy, who we called “Gordy” for Guardian. Unlike our other dogs, Gordy was socialized to human attention, and he had a difficult time adjusting to life here at the ranch…