Nora found this wonderful video today from the Olde
Homestead – the birth place of our Baby Doll lambs. We’re not sure which ones are ours, but we
know we’re getting 2 (possibly 3) of the white lambs in this video. Funny, and too adorable.
The gravel pad is being laid down today for the new barn. Its purpose is two-fold: to level the area on
which the barn will sit, and to form a pad that will resist settling/sinking. Our pasture has a slight downward slope, and
the barn will sit at the top of the rise toward the wood line (away from the
road). The gravel will be covered with dirt, forming a nice, porous floor for the stalls. We'll cover the dirt with thick layers of straw for bedding. Hopefully this combination will make for semi-easy cleaning, and will allow much of the moisture to seep through the dirt and into the rock bed beneath.
My barn guy contacted me this morning to see whether we were
ready for delivery. I told him the pad
should be in place by tomorrow at the latest, so looks like we may have our
barn sooner than the end of May. We
still need to put up the additional fencing and pasture gates, and pick up all
the other items: feeders, water troughs, minerals, dewormer medication, hoof
clippers, etc., but we’ll be ready by the end of the month.
Nora’s already thinking about names for the newest additions
to the family, but I told her she needs to wait until she meets them. The names have to fit the personalities. It’s nice to see her excited about their
arrival though, given her natural inclination to distrust “hoofed creatures.”
2 comments:
They are adorable! Are you going to have to give them the bottle? That would be so cute - post a picture if you do. - M
No, unfortunately they'll be past the bottle stage by the time we bring them home. I think they're going through the weaning process right now.
But the thought of bottle feeding does make me want to breed them so we can have the experience of seeing and handling the new-borns. That's at least a year down the road though.
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