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Life on the Farm:  April

4/10/2016

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I am enjoying these sunny, cool days of April.  The lambs are growing; Holly's triplets are the youngest and joined the flock last week.  I'm thankful Holly has plenty of milk for all three.

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Raja, our peacock that showed up on the farm years ago, scrounges for the grain that the sheep spill.  He hops up to see if he can fit in the lamb's creep feeder.  So that's who's been eating their grain!

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Some of the lambs are learning to go into their creep feeder (where the ewes can't fit) and eat grain.  I'm glad of this as some of the lambs are  five weeks old already and the ewes milk production starts decreasing at six weeks.

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Chase would love to play with the lambs; he stares longingly at them through the fence.  The ewes, however, would not like him to be in the pasture with their lambs.  They only tolerate Holden, our Great Pyrenees, who is their protector.
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The wethers and yearling ewes, in a separate pasture from the lactating ewes that receive grain, are enjoying the early spring grass.


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And the lambs just get cuter as they learn how to play.


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    Mary Longhill

    Shepherd, Handspinner

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