Lamb Stew

The long awaited lamb arrived today between the hours of 10:40am and 3:10 pm.  Of course.  Because I wasn't home during that time.  Lavender probably heard my car leave the driveway and said, OK GO!

I had been checking her daily for the last week knowing that it would be any time.  Last night she was running circles in her pen and the ram, Zeus was being an ass; butting her and herding her.  I enlisted the kids to help me and we moved the 17 young chickens from the stall next door and put them in the coop with the big birds.  Then with lots of encouraging(and threatening) we managed to get Zeus through the gate into the other stall by himself.  I put down fresh wood chips and told Lavender she could lamb any time.  So she did.

She's a normal scrawny little ewe lamb with the tiniest little curls of wool.  It won't be long before she's fat and frisky and running around the field with her mama and her half sister, Bubby. 

The kids are already begging me not to turn her into lamb chops in the Fall.  I have reminded them that even though she's adorable and little now she will be fat and dorky looking like her half sister by the Fall and we're a food farm not a petting farm.  Okay, we're a petting farm too.  Who am I trying to fool?  But someone has to earn their keep around here because the dogs and the cat certainly are not!