Look at this precious face!
Baa Baa Beautiful Black Sheep!
These are the Shetland boys, Kirby and Kelly, the sheep I mentioned we were wanting to add to the farm. Doing the happy dance! Woo Hoo! Do believe we might be seeing them sooner than I had imagined. If all goes well, we may be picking them up this coming weekend.
To my surprise, this morning I found 3 new additions to the farm. We have 2 new peachicks and a new chick. While feeding the Angoras I noticed 2 peahen walking around the pond bank. Nothing new there, though the movement under the girls caught my eye. Each hen had a chick close at her side. This baffles me really, the peafowl breeding season I assumed was over. The peacocks shed their feathers quite awhile ago. Olive our eldest peahen hatched her chicks back early in the summer, I am wondering why the younger peahens are so late. The chick I was not so surprised in seeing. Have had a couple of broody hens that will set on a fake egg if you let them. These little ones will have to grow quickly, the weather will begin to turn cool soon.
3 comments:
Oh My Gosh! How cute are they! Congrats on the new sheep! How big does this breed get?
Thanks Jennifer,
The Shetland breed is a small breed from my understanding. I believe our Boers could be twice the size of the sheep.
We used to raise Shetland sheep and hated it though and our neighbor's that used to live a mile down the road from us sold them at the same time as us.
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