Spring is HERE!

Heeeelloooooo SHEEPIES!

It has been awhile and I apologize for my absence. Not much has been going on here that is worth noting. We have had illnesses and routine, nothing that would illicit a post worth your time.

Let's catch up on the last month, shall we?  A.C and D.C are now 5 and 4 weeks old respectively.  They have both received a BOSE injection to help with selenium deficiency and CdT for tetanus/toxoid.  They will receive a second dose of CdT in 28 days and then the rest of the herd will receive a booster.  Pretty soon we will be looking for deworming the herd as well. The next step we will be taking is to get the herd registered.  We have talked about sending out blood samples to see how pure of Soay they are. If we do decide to go this route, we will probably continue down the path to register the herd as a conservation herd since the Soays are listed as a rare and protected breed in Great Britian. Who knows where we will take this, but it is a fun journey I never expected to be on.

Love my herd. 

New to the farm are three Turkey chicks.  We have appropriately named them Thanksgiving, Sandwiches and Sandwiches 2.  Sean and I have discussed the very real fact that I CAN NOT be involved in their end and processing.  I won't eat them if I see the in between steps. He is very excited to learn about it though so, we'll see if he does it or if he pays someone else to do it. The kids have been told that these turkeys will be killed to be eaten and it has caused some concern when I ask "Do you want a turkey sandwich?"...Cormac will give me a distrusting look and reply "Turkey from the fridge right...not those turkeys, right?" Haha. He is so smart.

They don't have a name specific to them...there are three names. They are interchangeable.

The goat continues to be a thorn in my side..or more appropriately, legs. 

This is how we stand when I am trying to watch the herd move or balance our neighbor's golf balls that he sliced or hooked into our pasture, on the fence posts for him to retrieve at his convenience.

Now that spring has officially sprung, the snow is gone and the sun shines longer (I wish we had sun in the morning and still had a shorter afternoon sun...I need the sun to get me moving. Curse you "daylight savings"), the hens are in production mode and almost every hen lays an egg a day.  We have lost another hen though.  She was a mean hen who always pecked at your feet.  I'm sad that she died in vain.  She wasn't eaten or carried off, she was most likely attacked my a neighbor's dog.  This of course, has caused us to stop being nice to the neighbor's dogs when they come over and we have to chase them off. If you know me, this kills me. I LOVE dogs, all animals really, and to have to be rude to them and make them leave when all I want to do is pet them, SUCKS.  I'm sad we lost her, but I am happy to announce that you can now safely wear flip flops in the coup again...silver lining. 

Moving on to regular life things, my weight loss journey is doing good.  I haven't been able to run in a while thanks to a nagging cough and I can't wait to get my running shoes back on. Pretty sure my dreams for a half marathon for this year may not happen, but I am not giving up on it.  I'm going to keep running and working for it. If nothing else, I will be getting in some amazing cardio. 

This week is spring break and we have nothing planned, so be on the look out for a post next week with our adventures we find this week. 

That's all for now Sheepies.  See you later, Alligators! 

~Beth