Missing Willow Farm

Jack is begging me to throw something so he can go get it for me.  This is an activity he’d much rather participate in with Brian but I’m an acceptable replacement when he’s not available.

Maya’s just two months old but is starting to look more like a sheep than a lamb.

Savannah is probably our best mother.  This is her protective angry face.  She actually is stomping her foot at me.  Well, actually at Jack who is standing right beside me.  You go mama!  I’ve only been rammed by a sheep once, and it was a ram (duh) who wasn’t ours.  And I pet him on the head.  That’s a what not to do.  He put me on my ass.  I survived to tell the tale.  Don’t pet a ram on his head.

Mo is CoCo’s little Buckling.  He’s hard to photograph because never stands still.  He’s a mixture of Oberhasli, Alpine and Nubian, all combined into a sturdy adorable little package.

Our newest addition, Val, smiles for the camera while mom keeps watch.

Savannah introduces her brand new one day old lamb to Maya and Bella’s twin kids, who our daughter Claire named Arthur and Uther.   Even though Uther was King Arthur’s father not brother.  Uther is the black one and Arthur is the mostly white one.   Got that?  🙂 We named Savannah’s little ewe Valdosta , Val for short.

Teeny climbs on anything that doesn’t move.   Once she’s up there, she stomps around until she falls off, then climbs up again.  Here she is biting Mina’s ear.   And Mina isn’t even her mom…

He’s the hardest goat we own to catch, but no so much when he’s mining for tasty morsels in the hay!

Bella had twin bucklings this morning.   They couldn’t look any different from each other, and both are so cute!

It’s really fun having kids around.  They are very hard to catch but are soft and snuggly when you do.  Bella’s the size of a house, she should add to the menagerie soon enough.