A wonderful little ram lamb born this a.m. On second thought his mother, Rosey Posey, probably didn't think he was so little. He weighed in at 13 lbs.

Spring has Officially Arrived

With the arrival of the first lambs, Spring Is Here!! (The Long Awaited)

Hope, one of our registered Border Leicesters, gave us these bee-yoo-tee-ful twin ewe lambs this morning, to a cold day with bright sunshine peeking through the open barn doors.

They weigh in at a healthy 10 lb 5 oz and 9 lb 5 oz.

Friday Funny

Moe could have told you that

"Tell sheep they all look alike, and they may beg to differ. Like primates, sheep, in studies, recognize different faces (about 50 other sheep and 10 humans) and still know them two years later. They are calmed by familiar faces and can tell both happy and angry expressions (they prefer the former). These are sophisticated abilities in an animal not widely known for smarts, says Babraham Institute's Keith Kendrick. How the sheep brain encodes facial identity and emotional cues may be relevant in some human disorders, he says."

-- "Minds of their Own", National Geographic, March 2008

In which Tiger gets a new home...

Tiger took the ride to the big city this morning. He cried quite a bit on the way which resulted in Raven, worrying, whining, pawing and staring at me most of the time. Raven could not figure out why I was not doing anything to help the distressed little kitty. Well, we made it, and Tiger met his new best friend at The Book Exchange and was pretty much a spoiled little kitty the rest of the day.

Thank you, Sean, for giving this great little guy a new home!