summer greens at Mountain Glen Farm

summer greens at Mountain Glen Farm

Monday, January 6, 2014

A Lesson To Learn


‘A person never stops learning’…that is Glenn’s new mantra.

 

Today, Glenn, Becky and I returned from a short afternoon outing to town to run some errands and to have an early dinner.

 

Glenn pulled my car under the carport and Becky immediately knew something was different.  On the other side of the fence from where my car was parked was a brand new baby lamb chasing its mother. We could hear another lamb baaing behind the accidently closed sheep door to the inside stall. One baby was out with its mom and one baby was wanting out of the barn to get to its mom.  Becky rushed to open the door from whence the second baby ran out with a mission…to find its mom.

 


Seems we are really out of sync for lambing this season.  Glenn allowed the ram to stay among last April’s new and birthing ewes just a bit too long.  Of course, we did not realize Winky's activity until some of the ewes recently started to expand.

 

Fortunately, Becky and Glenn got the expectant ewes up into the barn lot; nine in total, with access to an inside stall yesterday. And, just in time as tonight will be our coldest night of the season, to date, at a -3.  Some winters we do not get colder than 30…not this year, though. 

 

Considering it was already in the 20’s on our early return, those two little baby lambs looked to be in fine shape at less than four hours old.  The cold did not seem to bother them yet.

 

They were more concerned with getting the milk.

 


And so, Mountain Glen Farm’s 2014 lambing season begins...three  months early, but begins nonetheless!

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