Sanctuary

The last few years we noticed that butterflies had a tendency to hang around, specifically Monarchs. We decided to try our an experiment this year by purchasing 5 milkweed

 plants to see if we would get any caterpillars and if so how many we could feed with that many plants. It turns out we hatched out caterpillars most of the ye ear and we have the last dozen or so waiting to hatch out this weekend. I think the experiment was a success and we will definitely will pick up some more next year.

All sorts of lambs

January brought the birth of more lambs and a third round at the beginning of March. January babies are doing well. We lost one of the March babies after mother rejected her and we tried to do everything to keep her going, but she probably had a respiratory infection due to aspirating some mecunium. So it looks like we'll have 5 lambs for slaughter starting around May, which works out well because we'll be starting to shear then.

January lambs came out mostly black and love hanging out with the ram.

Baa, who did not make it through the week.

Extremely blurry picture of new mom with her two March lambs. She would not let Baa get near the other lamb.

We heard that there is a place close by that has dairy sheep, so we might see about adding that onto the homestead so that we can have milk year round, with any luck.