Baby goats & more lambs

Tuesday morning brought baby goats. Both does. Both for sale immediately as bottle babies. The dam is Lamancha, the sire Alpine. These does will be awesome milkers. Or great pets -- they are so cute!
Tuesday afternoon brought Finn triplets from Harlequin Impi. Three ewe lambs.

Quads!

Harlequin Pippi lambed last night. Conveniently at 9 p.m. First there was one.

Beautiful ewe lamb.
Then she stood up.
Then there were three more! Two rams and a ewe.

Proud father Harlequin Bear.
Junebug and Jujubee playing "queen of the mountain."

Lamb Watch

Whilst waiting for Pippi to lamb, I'm trying to clear my 'to-do' list. Or at least reduce its great length. First up, the merino pink-y, purple-y hat
The cat decides to impede progress. Then takes over.
Next project - laundry. We all know what it looks like and how much fun it is. Not.
Shearing: 3 done, 13 to go

Pregnant ewes - many wide tummies out there.

Lambing has begun

The count so far: 8 ram lambs, 1 ewe lamb. White, black and BROWN! Our first brown lamb, Theodore is living in the house -- much to the annoyance of our cats.

It was a whopping 27 degrees the morning of his birth. Hypothermia nearly did the little fellow in. I gave him a warm water bath and popped him in a laundry basket with a heating pad. By the end of the day he was ready for the playpen.

another fleece ready

I'm getting faster! I hand sheared Frosty, the big ram in an hour. 7 pounds of fleece - after skirting!
8 more sheep to go ......

Fleeces are ready

It's glorious outside. The sheep, though, they're miserable. Out came the shears. The first batch of fleeces are ready and can be found at HarlequinFarm.etsy.com
I expect to shear the rest in the next week.
Lambs will arrive in 6 weeks!

GOATS!

Fidget and Peyton are here! Fidget is a brown Alpine, Peyton is a black Lamancha. They've settled in well and we're expecting kids in May.

My camera is having issues so I lost the better pictures I took. I'll try again but in the meantime - here are the new girls.



My thanks to Bonnie Peck and her daughters for raising these healthy, friendly goats.