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Please Not Another One!

2/26/2015

A third lamb (#96) had her tag ripped off! This is terrible. We don't know how exactly this is happening, but we have a suspect: Barney the Goat. The other day I saw him tugging on Babysheep's ear in the very spot she lost her tag a month ago. The tugging was gentle and playful, but it makes we wonder if, once in a while, Barney gets a tag between his teeth and ends up pulling too hard. I flat out asked him if he did it and he gave me the silent treatment. So I don't know for sure. One thing I DO know for sure---tomorrow we are taking off all the rest of the tags to stop the carnage. We'll be using ear tatoos for I.D.s from now on. Anyway, here's poor #96 and her torn ear. I feel bad (again).

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Not Again!

2/15/2015

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Darn it! Another lamb (#098) lost her tag. Again, just like Babysheep, the tag inexplicably got caught on something and was ripped right off. Ouch! This time the injury is more severe, in that the tear cut clear across the length of 98's ear effectively splitting it in two. Fortunately, the cut was relatively clean and there is no sign of infection. She also seems completely okay with her new look. I feel bad for her. She is such a beautiful lamb, but there will be no real long term problems with her development. #98 is just going to have a weird looking left ear from now on. Oh well.

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The Last Two Lambs

2/11/2015

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Lambing for the 2015 Season at Bear Valley Farm has come to a close with December's two adorable daughters, born this morning around 8am. You'll notice that one of her lambs is colored yellow. That was due to the fact that the newborn "pooped in her pants" during the birth. But not to worry, this little accident is not all that unusual a thing and presents no danger whatsoever to the lamb. Within a week or so her wool coat will be clean, white and fluffy soft, just like the rest of them darling little sheep. So, the total yield this time around: five males & eleven females. How curious. Last year we had eleven males and five females.

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Woo Hoo! Another Two!

2/8/2015

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Walked into the barn this morning and found two new lambs born to our Lizzy. Both are males and looking very spry. Mama and babies are doing well. Just waiting on one more ewe (December) to have her lambs and we will finally be done with this year's crop.

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Norma's Little Ram

2/6/2015

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This morning Norma gave birth to a single, a fine healthy ram. He's still a little shaken up by the trauma of being born, but Mama is attending to him nicely.

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Babysheep is Tagless

2/5/2015

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Goodness sakes! First Babysheep was born very underweight and mama sort of wrote her off. Then Babysheep got hyporthermia and almost died. Then her inverted eyelids had to be treated by the vet with stitches. And now Babysheep's I.D. tag has been ripped away from her ear. Perhaps another one of our animals caused it or maybe she got it caught on something. We don't know. What we DO know is that this poor little thing has been through too much already (not to mention Farmer Tom) and we hope the worst of her days are over. On the bright side, she is getting stronger and more robust each day, she plays happily with her siblings and other pen-pals, and her little ear will heal but will always have that gap from the injury. So, identifying her without a tag will be easy. The other way we can tell is how she cries and runs to us whenever we call her name. Here's a picture I took just moments ago after her noon bottle feeding. Apart from those ugly stitches and that gaping hole, she still looks adorably cute. She is now officially Farmer Tom's favorite baby lamb.

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Please Not Another One!

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