Showing posts with label HALTER LESSONS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HALTER LESSONS. Show all posts

Saturday, August 06, 2011

The Deed is Done...

De-worming my flock, that is.

Penny & Karma

My wonderful sister, Penny, and her daughter, Alicia, came out to help me worm all of the sheep yesterday. 

"HELP!"

I don't usually use chemical dewormers but a couple of the lambs had pale eyelids so we did the whole flock.  The weather has been so horribly hot and muggy that I don't want any added stressors on the sheep.

Some took it better than others.


Penny with Kahlua & Chance
(yes, Penny has a bag of cookies stuffed down the front of her shirt!)

Notice Karma standing tied behind Penny in the first photo?  We decided that now was as good a time as any to start halter lessons on the girls that were harder to catch.


As always, that went over very well!


That's Tia Maria in the death throws.  Penny's trying to bribe her with a cookie.  Mimosa is looking on.  She's already halter trained.


Everyone else seems pretty interested in that cookie!


I absolutely love the look of total disgust on Chance's face as Tia continues to fight the halter.


Mimosa was more than willing to demonstrate how to take the cookie out of Penny's hand!


When the ewes and lambs all had their medicine, it was time to move over to the ram pen.
I'm happy to say that my beautiful "Polar Bear" will be making his new home in Oregon ~ with LOTS of beautiful new girls waiting to make his acquaintance!


For those of you who are still hoping to add some Bluff Country genetics to your flock, I've still got a couple of awesome Polar Bear sons for sale...


Sunday, July 31, 2011

One last time...

The sheep will all be leaving for their new homes soon and I decided that I really should start halter training some of the lambs.

"Jack Daniels" 
(Shaela, HST)


As per usual, they were THRILLED...






But eventually came around.


"Bacardi"
(white, Alice grandson)





 This is one, VERY athletic ram lamb!


I wish  that I had caught some of Bacardi's flying leaps but the delay on the digital camera takes too long and I never clicked at just the right time. 

And then, there was:
 "Jim Beam"...


I REALLY like this ram lamb!
Then again, I think Bacardi is awesome as well.






Talk about "athletic" ram lambs! 


These three boys are still for sale. 
I was going to work with some of the ewe lambs as well but it was just TOO  HOT.
I've got ten more days before I go in for my mastectomy ~ I'll get the girls started
soon...


Monday, August 30, 2010

Smudge's turn...


I posted photos of Zaria's mioget, ewe lamb, "Snip"  having her first halter lesson the other day.  Today I'll feature Snip's sister, "Smudge":


Smudge proved to be every bit as 'atheletic' as her sister when I held the lead rope.


Look at all the pretty white UNDER Smudge's muzzle, jaw and neck!
I also suspect that, like her dam, Smudge will be Shaela.


Life is rough when you're a lamb!

A little moral support:



Sweet Sara thinks she might just be missing out on something.

Zaria moves in to comfort her distraught daughter:


Poor baby!


I got a kick out of this though...


See the 'cookie'?


Chomp, chomp, chomp. 
No more cookie!
I guess she's not THAT  truamatized!

Then again...


Since Smudge was either airborn or sprawled on her side, I decided to end the halter lesson for the day.  I did, however, leave the halter on her for a while.
Smudge, rushed off to the the comfort and security of her mom and sister.


Maybe she'll get a little more used to the feeling of the halter and be a LITTLE more cooperative next time?


Before Smudge gets her next lesson, there's one more lamb that I need to get started.  DAISY will be leaving with Smudge and Snip, next week...


"Uh-Oh!"


Saturday, August 28, 2010

A right of passage...


It occurred to me, the other day, that many of my lambs will be leaving for their new homes soon and I haven't even begun halter lessons!   With a three day reprieve from the heat and humidity, there's no more time for excuses.

Zaria's lovely daughter, "Snip" volunteered to go first:


Perhaps "volunteered" isn't the right word?


I don't understand why they always get so upset!
;-)


Snip appears to be ambidextrous!
She can throw herself to the ground on either side!


Perhaps if she hides her face, I'll go away?!


I recognize that reaction ~ I do it all the  time!



DREAM to the rescue!


Maybe if I bite this rope...


Stay here, while I go talk to Mom...


Poor Snip!


"I'm thinkin' that you best untie this lamb!"


And don't make me have to tell you TWICE!


Yes, Dreamer!


The halter is off.  Time for a little neck scritchin'...

NEXT???

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