The original plan was to get animals in the late spring of the second year, but we are inveterate "Uncle Henry's" fans (the Maine second-hand merchandiser). The first winter I saw an ad for a small herd of Corriedale sheep. We were able to pick them up the next weekend. Three mature ewes in the herd were pregnant, so that gave us lambs that winter, too early for comfort (the ram not being separated from the ewes at the proper time, the ewes bred far too early). We became adept at helping ailing lambs survive, even to the point of learning to intubate or force feed a down lamb.
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Welcome to our Farm Blog.
The purpose of this blog is for Aimee and I to communicate with friends and family, with those of our students, and other folks in general who are interested in homesteading and farming activities.
The earliest posts, at the very end of the blog, tell the story of the Great Farm, our purchase of a fragment of that farm, the renovation of the homestead and its populating with people and animals. Go all the way to the last post in the archive and read backwards from there to get it in chronological order.
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