Throughout the summer and fall, our sheep graze away from the farm on fields owned by friends and neighbors. They usually gaze for a few days in one area before we shift to an adjacent plot, or round them up and walk them down the road to a new field. Here, our black flock walks through Chesham village on their way to a new pasture, flanked by border collies on all sides and accompanied by Jackson the llama.…
With 14 lambs born in the past 24 hours (a single, 5 sets of twins and a set of triplets), lambing is officially in full swing! The lambing room (kind of like a nursery) is packed with all 12 jugs (4’x5’ pen) at full occupancy…so much so that we created another 5 of these small pens out in the main barn. If you want to see a live lamb born, now is a great time to visit the farm and…
Last night, we had our first set of baby goats born. True to form, these twin girls have ears that are 70% of their head and 90% of their cuteness! Unfortunately, we had to separate them from their mother because she wasn’t creating enough milk…but that means “bottle babies”! The girls are strong and healthy and overall doing great!…
The lambing season has officially begun with our first ewe giving birth to a single black male lamb. Everything is in place and we were ready. It usually begins slowly with a lamb being born every other day or so but then around the first week of February we can expect 20+ lambs per day.…
Last weekend, we moved our large flock over a mile down the road to a new pasture to munch on grass growing up after the last cutting of hay. This is the fastest and most efficient way for us to move our flock. We couldn’t do this very well without the help of our Border Collie team. Here, our youngest member of the team, Tate is learning to lead the flock and leapfrog driveways with her older teammate Nell. If…
We completed another successful demonstration season with the NH Fall Festival at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. Our first demo of 2017 will take place on Saturday, April 29 at the Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival in Waltham, MA. Click here for our complete demonstration schedule. http://www.strawberybanke.org/events/NH-fall-festival.cfm Sheepshearing Festival…
