Assisted Birth
Sometimes I just need to go in and help. There is likely a statistical probability that some of the times I have gone in have not been...
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Kristin Ramey
- Aug 27, 2022
- 3 min
Sheepy Data
I love my sheepies. Almost as much as I love sheepies, I love SPREADSHEETS. I have 15 years of data about my sheep flock. Which moms are...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 31, 2022
- 6 min
Lambs and Bottle Babies
Sigh. So, if you raise lambs, you are likely going to end up with bottle babies. Sometimes things happen. Sometimes lambs are literally...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
And we have a winner...
So, lambing season has just started for us here. We started on a not-so-great note. I mean, lambs were born, all are healthy and OK, so...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 7 min
What Farming Really Looks like
So, of course, I fill our website, Facebook and Instagram with cute pictures of lambs and silly pictures of ducks and piggies and such. ...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
A Day with Death
We recently got gifted a space at the butcher for 2 hogs. Oh boy, did we need that! I thought about the last time I loaded hogs into the...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 5 min
We were ready for this...
I remember a day a long time ago... we got a bucket, and a towel. We kicked the former, and threw the latter. 'Cause we bought the farm....
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
Saying Goodbye to Sharon
It's like losing Shirley all over again! We had a rough morning this weekend. It was even my birthday. We had triplets and twins born the...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
What the @%*! UGH!
So MANY triplets! What is in the water this year! Onyx not only surprised us with triplets, she surprised us with their size and the fact...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
The Biggest and the Littlest
Taking care of our super sweet Firestar made me start thinking of lambs and data. She was born at 3.5 pounds, and another triplet born...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
The Trouble with Triplets 2.0
You may recall me discussing our history with triplet lambs here. It's January, 2020, and we are just getting into lambing season. So far...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
The Joy of Winter
OK, I won't lie, Autumn is my favorite season. Sweaters, hot apple cider, all the beautiful colors. I love fall. It seemed to skip us up...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
300!
WE ARE SPARTANS! Just kidding, although I am. (Go Green, Go White) I was looking at my sheep spreadsheet, which is one of my favorite...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 2 min
Goodbye to Frigg
I know, I just said we would say goodbye to Sharon first. Well, we didn't. Even though Sharon can't feed her lamb, she still takes care...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
Fat Sharon
So... some plans just never fall in place correctly. Fat Sharon apparently, is really just fat. We thought she was carrying triplets,...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 5 min
Too Hard to Talk About
We've had a rough year. Some simple mistakes, bad luck, and bad decisions have paved the way for some serious losses on the farm. But...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
The Trouble with Triplets
We don't do triples very often around here, but sometimes it happens. Shirley, one of our original sheep really ruined us on triples....
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
Goodbye to Dancer, but Freyja was saved
UGH, this year, April STINKS. Amidst saying goodbye to one of the best dogs ever (and the subsequent 3 days of being ignored by his...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
More Sheep Statistics
We have completed yet another lambing season, which has been fun. A few bumps along the way. But all in all a good set of babies and...
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Kristin Ramey
- Jan 27, 2022
- 3 min
Goodbye Peppermint Patty
Remember this post? This is the post where I shared some of my ewe data, the info that helps me determine which ewe is going to leave...
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