Just a quick homestead report today. It's business as usual, but managed to get some fun pictures while doing chores yesterday.
I don't know what to call this. A sheepie? A shelfie? A selfeepie? Anyways, it's me and #3 hanging out beside the hay feeder.
#3 was raised on the bottle so she's pretty friendly.
She was over visiting me because I had left the pitchfork leaning against the feeder. Sheep are pretty quick to notice something "new" in their environment.
Their process is pretty simple. It goes like this:
"Oh, a new thing. It has not moved so I am not scared of it."
"I will taste this thing in case it is food, and then I will keep it all to myself."
"Human, the thing was not food. Please give me the food."
That's when we took some sheepelfies.
Another fun thing I observed was an interaction between my two rams, Badger and Booster. They've been enjoying the company of all the ewes for a couple weeks now, breeding any ewes that were missed at the earlier breeding window, as well as the ewe lambs.
Badger is definitely the boss. Rams will develop a pecking order and the top ram gets to do all the breeding he wants. We have a large enough group that Booster still winds up breeding some of the ewes, but Badger doesnt share any of the ladies he wants to himself!
The little black ewe lamb on the right is in heat right now, she acts flirtatiously with the rams and follows them everywhere. Booster, on the left, is coming to give her a little greeting, but Badger, in the middle, is acting like the jocks in the movies.
Ewe lamb: giggles, bats eyelashes
Booster: hey there beauti--
Badger : SCUSE ME THATS MY GIRLFRIEND
Ewe lamb: Oh Badgie! giggle He was just talking.
Booster: Yeah! Just talking.
Badger: I WILL BUST YOUR DAMN FACE IF YOU DON'T TAKE A WALK RIGHT NOW
Booster: Wow jeez ok bye
Badger: YEAH YOU BETTER RUN PANSY see that baby, see how I protected you from that loser
Ewe lamb: ok yes i saw you're so attractive
So, most likely Badger will be the father of this ewe's lambs later this summer. Pretty exciting, right?
I feel like I could probably turn the relationships in my sheep flock into a blockbuster soap opera.
Thanks for dropping by!
