Sunshine and Sheep

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" Psalm 118:24
After yesterday and its pea soup fog, today is looking BEAUTIFUL! The snow is melting and it's a nice 40 degrees outside.

Today has been a day of planning. The girls and I have been preparing our hay shed for lambs the past couple weeks. They have been very excitedly helping make pens, hang lights, and make milk buckets. We have some bottle dairy bucklings lined up to arrive between the end of March and the end of April. The guy has 11 does and is expecting 10-20 buckling kids. For anyone that doesn't know what a buckling is, it's a baby boy goat.

Lamb pens

This weekend we will be going to look at a bred Icelandic ewe and a bred Shetland ewe. My end goal is to have purebred Icelandic sheep, so I thought I would start with these two and see how it goes.



Photo Courtesy of http://www.isbona.com/

The Icelandic sheep is one of the world's oldest and purest breeds of sheep. Throughout its 1100 years of history, the Icelandic breed has been truly triple-purpose, treasured for its meat, fiber and milk.

Come this spring, I am hopeing to fence off some of our south yard between the well house an chicken house for the sheep to graze in.