Lambs

Lambs are the reason for the delay in postings. We lambed from March 27th through April 1st. We have six surviving lambs. We lost three. We are bottle feeding three and the other three are out in pasture with their moms. Whew! It has been a busy few weeks. We are in a routine but it makes for long busy days. We are hoping to put all the lambs together soon. The bottle fed ones need to learn how to eat.

I will try to post a more later this week.

Take care!
Kate

Pictures of the milk shed

Day one - We have the building up. A shelf for the milk things and other supplies.










This a close up of the shelf.




This is the stanchion and the feed pan.







I have more pictures but I got frustrated trying to load them. Will post more another day. This is the start though of a homemade milk shed. It's great to have an engineer for a hubby.

Working hard

We have been working on building a milk shed. Our cow, Beauty, delivered a handsome bull calf last Sunday. It has been fun being the hired hand. My husband is the designer and builder. I am just the fetch, carry and hold person. I enjoy working with him. We have a good time and get much discussed over hammer, nails and screws.

We should be milking her soon. That should actually read "I". It will be my job. I'll let you know how that goes. I have milked goats but this should be an interesting change. We are all looking forward to drinking milk again. We have been milk deprived for almost nine months. Since we moved back. Of course now we will need to work out what we will be doing with all that milk. The kids I am sure will contribute to the suggestion box. :)

Hope your Mother's Day is a wonderful one!