Newest Members of the Farm Family

We are eager to move into this new year, start getting babies, and be able to start milking and making cheese again.  This “down time” was perfect timing, since the entire family has managed to get……and share……the crud, but I think we are all just about over it and we are ready to get back to work!  J

The girls have been very well behaved lately, but I just imagine that next week they will not be too happy with us.  We plan to move the younger girls to the west pasture where we can start watching them closer for kidding.  I think that they will be perfectly happy, BUT at the same time we are going to move the mature girls to the east pasture and I think that they are the ones that aren’t going to be too happy, but they will adjust and in just a couple of short months, they will have babies and can move back over to the west side.

A few weeks ago, we got a call from some from friends.  They had a friend, that due to health reasons, needed to rehome his senior Livestock Guardian Dog.  We agreed to take him and Chrys went to pick him up after work the next day.  Leo is about 10 or 11 years old and sometimes has a little difficulty getting up, but he is just supper awesome and SO sweet.  We have started giving him a daily aspirin to help with his aches and pains.  Hopefully, as the weather warms, some of that will go away.  Leo could also use a good haircut and grooming, but since it is so cold that will wait until spring.  Leo is a Great Pyrenees. 

THEN……….About a week or so ago, some very awesome market friends needed to rehome their young Livestock Guardian Dog.  It was at this time that Abby came to live on the farm.  Abby is very smart, if not a little bit spoiled, and she is absolutely gorgeous.  She made fast friends with our young girl, Tess, and now everybody’s trash from at least a 10 mile radius is in our yard.  :/  Abby is ½ Great Pyrenees and ½ Anatolian Shepard.

And finally…………..The girls brought home a precious little bundle of joy for their daddy as a Christmas present.  Tippi is a Border Collie and hopefully one day she will assist in bringing the girls to the barn when they get stubborn so that I don’t have to walk across the pasture 500 times just to get them in to milk.  In the meantime, she is conducting her own form of destruction on everything in the house.  :/