Saturday, August 24, 2013
My Shawnee
We had been anticipating the birth of Shawnee's cria. Instead, tonight, Aug 23, we lost them both around 11pm. It's almost never a good thing for labor to become obvious at night. Tonight was no exception.
She started showing obvious signs of labor around 8pm. When no progress was made, our vet was called just after 9. She got there about an hour later.
At first, it seemed all was ok. Feet and nose were present, so she pulled them out. But nothing else would come. It was apparen read more...
Pretty girl
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Saturday, August 17, 2013
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Alpacas in my yarn store!
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
10-15 minutes old
"Lawdy, Miss Scarlet! I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies!"
Well, last Sunday I felt just about like Prissy in "Gone With the Wind"!
We had just finished a day and a half of shearing and I was cleaning runs, all the while keeping an eye on one of my girls, Tweeter. She had looked uncomfortable all day, so we had checked with our vet and found that she was out of town. I had about given up on the baby being born that day, when all of a sudden there was a water bag--but no bod read more...
2 days old
1 day old with mom
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
Veritas and Wes
Well, GWAS has come and gone--now on to Nationals.
For a little farm, we did ok. Two thirds, two fourths, one fifth, one sixth, and one got the gate (a white juvie boy in a huge class) at halter. In fleece, we took a 1st and 2nd in Spin-off (two half-sisters against each other), 2nd for Loreal in Produce of Dam Fleece, and a fourth in the white D & E fleece combined class (only two E's out of 13 entries--and she was one of them--so not too bad up against animals a year younger than she!)
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Dyed Merino Roving
Boy, does time fly! Our new fiber store is up and running! Many of you have been by, and we thank you! We keep getting more and more stuff in (not fast enough for me--but that's another story!) Every week is kind of like Christmas--getting in new rovings, new yarn, new spinning wheels! In rovings, we now have 15.5 micron merino, 50/50 yak-merino, beautiful dyed merino/silk, bamboo, tussah silk, alpaca, and much, much more.
We have yarns from Misti, Plymouth, Pagewood Farms, Ashland Bay read more...
Pagewood Yarn and Silk Yarn
PAgewood Farms Roving
Majacraft Aura
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Elizabeth--Color Champ!
Just went to ABR Fall Fest this weekend and had a great show!
EON White Diamond's Elizabeth brought home our very first blue ribbon at halter and our first Color Champion--in white, no less. Thejudge said she has amazing, amazing, AMAZING fleece!
Then our little juvie, FRA Snowmass Enlightenments Veritas brought home a blue (now , he was in a class of his own as a juvie appaloosa--but--it's still a blue!)
Our 2 year old dark siiver gray girl, Twitter, brought home a 2nd (to a light rose read more...
Taz-1st show, 1st blue!
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
My 3 boys!
I don't know how a month can go by so fast, but it has! Since last blog, 2 babies have been born to join Socrates. Last Wednesday, Margarita had a beautiful little rose gray boy, but he wasn't acting quite right. So watching and waiting. The next morning, sometime before 6:15, Diamond had a little white or beige boy (not sure yet). Strong as an ox. He was running before he was 6 hours old. The little rose gray boy, however, was not doing well. We started antibiotics and our vet came out F read more...
It's open!
Socrates and friend
born about 12 hours apart
Ashford Joy and Kiwi
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Clara's baby boy
Clara's little baby boy was born at day 352 on 7/25. He's a good looking little fellow! His dad is the the wonderful black herdsire, Aladdin of KPR and mom is, of course, Santa Clara. I bred Clara to Aladdin since she has some color in her background and got this delightful little brown boy with white knee socks in the front! He looks to be very fine and has tight curls under his cria fluff.
The fiber store is coming along--will probably take me another week to be fully operational. I pa read more...
painting
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