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July 31st, 2013

31/7/2013

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Hickory has gone off to his new home as I wanted a different  ram to mate with my ewes and their daughters next season

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July 27th, 2013

27/7/2013

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I shall have to say goodbye to Larch soon, as she is going to be with her sister, who was sold earlier.  Larch is going with her mum who will be returned to me at weaning time.   The new owner is now hooked on these charming Ouessants. 

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June 02nd, 2013

2/6/2013

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Had the ewes shorn yesterday, oh what a racket, the babies didn't recognise their mums as their scent was removed with the fleece and of course the ewes looked - well different somehow - Bald and ugly. no wonder the lambs were frightened when they saw their mums. so there was calling back and forth all day between the lambs and mums. Today its a lot quieter.

So when is a Ouessant not a Ouessant?  When it looks like this !!  (photo to follow)

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May 08th, 2013

8/5/2013

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Our newest lamb Ivy with her Mum Amelie.  Both look contented

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May 08th, 2013

8/5/2013

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Here is Holly about a week old, she is very friendly.

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April 21st, 2013

21/4/2013

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Yew  today was our 'firstborn', arrived this morning at about 2am, I was up again at 4am and just missed it, last visit was midnight.  Mother and baby doing well .  Lovely strong ewe lamb. 
Her name is Yew not only because she is a ewe, but I am choosing 'foresty' names as were are in the New Forest also her father is Hickory and his mother was Hazel, so we are following tradition.
2 more due this week.

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Day 3 and Yew is galloping around the paddock and doing that bouncing forward with all four feet touching the floor together, her mum just cant keep up with her now.
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April 19th, 2013

19/4/2013

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The girls are getting pretty fed up with their lumps, I think they wish it was all over.
We have been busy getting the maternity suite ready, we have 2 mothering pens for the first 24 hours.
The chicken mesh screens on the door and the divider in the shed are ready so that we can shut them in at night in case Mr. Fox comes snooping around, though I have not seen one for years.

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Father-to-be
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March 28th, 2013

28/3/2013

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Definately felt a lamb kicking in Jenna's tum, so Hickory has done his job even though he was very young. First lamb due on the 23 April.
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Flooding in the Paddock

26/1/2013

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They use the walkway across the water

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First the Floods and now the Snow !!

20/1/2013

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This is Alan's artistic view of the paddock, I think its quite a good effect.

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Hickory - He's separated from the ewes now - a sort of ASBO as he had started to bully them.
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The ewes are heading back to the hayrack, they are fed well whilst no grass to get at.
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The ewes are happy now that Hickory is not bossing them about.
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