Black Sheep Farm​​​

After much wringing of hands and staring at our pregnant ewes trying to will them into labour we finally have lambs on the ground! Once again Buttercup was first out of the gate with twins (one ewe and one ram lamb).

Two days later Mia finally had her twins. We were...

Well, it is that time of year again when thoughts turn to letting the rams in with the ewes. Back in October you could tell that the ewes were taking an interest in the ram pen.

We divided the girls into two groups. Half went with Bear, our relatively new black ram...

At the Salmon Arm Fair we entered our black ram's fleece. We are proud to say that Bear's fleece won first in the short fine wool category.

After waddling around the farm for the past few week Mia finally had her lambs. She was so huge we were wondering if there were four lambs inside her. Turns out there were two very large twins. One ram and one ewe lamb. We are relieved for her sake. The lambs are doing...

At 1:00 AM Easter Sunday one of our orginal ewes, Molly, gave birth to two ewe lambs. Both of the girls were quite large and vigerous. I just watched from the sidelines to make sure everyone was cleaned off and fed before I could get back to bed to try to get some rest...

Here is Persephone basking in the sun.

So there we were, wrapping up our daughter's Greek themed birthday party by visiting with the baby goats when we discovered one of our ewes, Buttercup, had given birth to two beautiful ewe lambs. They were up and about, happily feeding from mom. It gave the guests the...

And now there are eight little goats! Our latest addition had two beautiful little boys. Blossom, who barely looked pregnant was storing two little boys in there. One has the same colouring as Blossom but the other is black and white with brown moon spots. Very cool. A...

After a couple late nights our farms is filled with the sounds of bleating. Our two Nigerian Dwarf Does delivered six little kids. One set of twins and one set of quads!!! That was a hectic night. Anyway, we are bottle feeding three of them and trying to milk the moms...