Tiny baby animal season continues.

Goatlings started making an appearance as of last night.

Really treacherous footing over here reflecting the current events landscape a bit.

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Left two rams with only a cattle panel dividing them while I moved some ewes the other day and came back to a busted (the wire is ripped in the middle?!) cattle panel and two bloody rams. I should’ve known better with these hormonal dudes. Ridiculous, boys, just ridiculous.

The ‘fluffy chickens’ got an automatic coop door the other day but they’re either too blinded by their fluff or too… not smart… to use it. Anticipating needing to shoo them inside every evening for at least the next week. #silkies #darwinaward

It went from -2° to 55° and supposedly back down to around 7° this weekend so… that’s been a trip. Using this brief (maybe?) spell of thawed ground to drive in t posts for some new fence.

Happy belated Yule/Winter Solstice! ❄️

Welcome to our house, the floor isn’t lava but please jump over the salted sheepskins on your way in. #shepherding

Had been planning to expand our layer flock a bit for 2025, but with everything happening with #H5N1 that doesn’t seem wise now. In 2023 the stress of keeping our birds under cover during the migratory bird season for HPAI was a bit much (they also didn’t enjoy being cooped up, excuse the pun).

Vörður and Dimmet in the snow. Apparently all I have to talk about is the weather and sheep/animals/plants. #IcelandicSheep

Cary Wolinsky’s ‘Half Shorn Sheep’ tinyurl.com/4mm4xzym

A cool visual, would’ve loved to see it on one of the longer wool breeds.

7°F this morning and all of our wool is finally out to the mills - hoping to get it back in the form of lovely yarn around this time next year. 🐏🧶❄️

Rosie has discovered that she can sneak under the goat fence to hang out with Beowulf and they’ve been having a grand old time ever since.

An attempt to get away from Meta. Here’s a goat.