Babies!!

Just when we were sure that there were no babies arriving this spring, we were shocked!!

On May 4th, 2 days before Shelly was coming home from school and two months after most of our lambs have arrived, little Fawn was outside in the pasture when we went to feed the sheep that night. We were shocked! Mom actually cried a bit she was so happy... and then we proceeded to chase all the mamas around and look at their backsides because we had no idea who the mom was! It turns out that it was Mellie. Fawn was near Mellie when we first went out, but mom wasn't convinced that was the lamb's mama.

Fawn is a gorgeous baby black girl sheep. She looks just like a little baby deer - very leggy. I don't know if it's just the fact there is only one this year or what, but she looked gigantic as soon as she was born!

She's a month old now and beautiful! She hops around, jumps, leaps, kicks her little legs and chases the wild roosters (definitely my favorite hobby of hers). She's often in places she shouldn't be making me wonder if the "bad" gene is in Arthur's blood since her half brother Franklin is also a big brat! Sure, we had 4 babies last year, but just this one is pretty fun too.

Why the plural with the subject when there's just one lamb??
My you're quick!

Well, we've got baby ducks too!!

As of yesterday, there's one adorable baby :) The ducks (because, yes, there are two ducks on one nest!) have been sitting on a nest for some time now and I think we were all starting to suspect that much like the sheep, the ducks were not going to have any babies either ... but just when I was about to throw a broken egg out (this wasn't the first we would have found in the nest), I heard it peep - not a broken, bad egg, but a baby breaking out!!

The poor little baby seemed to be having quiet a bit of trouble. There was a lot of shell already broken off, but there was only a small hole where its beak was poking out of the thick inner-lining of the egg. So...


Please note again that this duckling was already well out of the shell on its own before I started "helping." You should never remove a duckling from its egg before its ready on its own.