Late December/January

I can't believe January is almost over! I am going to review the past month starting a little bit after Christmas.

We had an exciting adventure which we all knew would come sooner or later a couple days after Christmas........ Mom hit a deer with the van.

Thankfully it was only a young buck

Thus we got to learn the art of deer dressing, skinning, and meat cutting. We learn something new everyday around here! The meat made great tacos! I think venison tastes like lamb meat.

Also, the ewes that we got at the sale barn back in November have all started lambing this month as well! I love baby lambs! They are so cute! So far we have had 2 singles, 2 sets of twins, and a set of triplets.

Unfortunately with the triplets, we have had to teach the mother to take care of her babies by holding her still while her babies nurse from her and occasionally having to bottle feed the weaker one that doesn't have the strength to follow it's mom around quite yet. Sadly, one of them died from not being fed enough. Animal husbandry is something we are getting more familiar with each passing day. We have learned our lesson on how to properly take care of triplets if that ever happens again. 

We still have 2 more ewes that are due to lamb any day! Exciting!

We are also breeding the other ewes that we already had and I hope they lamb in June. 

 1st lamb born

 1st set of twins

 Triplets 

  Had to do a selfie :)

 Snow pictures

These guys were just born this morning!

 2nd set of twins

It has gotten pretty cold here and the pond and spring have frozen over a couple times but only the most recent one the ice was solid enough to walk on. Ice is so pretty. But I have learned, its not fun to drive on!

 A frozen puddle

 Anna and I playing around with ice

 We started holding the ice up to the sunsets. 

 Trying the spring out in the woods

 Playing on the pond

That's Izzy for ya!