Blizzard of 2009

Welcome to Snow Days!

Newest Addition!

Poco Pennington: Poco for short. His name seemed fitting, considering.

He is a 13 week old, Miniature Australian Shepherd. He already loves to run around the sheep.

Our new Home!

This is our new home! You'll see the inside when the episode airs - near December or January :)

D-Day

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Meeting Ty Pennington was one of the greatest days of our family's lives.

Extreme Makeover, Home Edition

Yes, it is true. We were whisked away by ABC and the Extreme Makeover team! I will be posting pictures shortly

House Fire: Farm on Temporary Hold

We had a house fire back on April 26th, and we have been quite busy. Things will be settling down soon. At that time, I will be processing this years fleece and posting them on our etsy store. The available lambs, ewe and ram, will have updated photos posted with prices as soon as possible.
Thank you all for understanding.

A few Ram Lambs!

Just a few of the boys.

Can you tell these two are twins: clones of their daddy, Israel! Their horns are looking great and their fleece is just as sweet!

These are a couple of ram lambs we are keeping our eyes on for potential breeding stock for this next fall - They will be available FOR SALE!

MiaKoda in all his splendor

I'm just now weaning him, he's not that happy being out of sight of momma. I think she just walked behind the grain bin. She's all about the eating without him on her (she's on vacation)!

We have EGGS!

We have added hens to our little farm. Since we brought them home, we've been getting 2-3 eggs every day! We get green, brown, and white eggs (of all sizes). I think we'll add more hens in the near future. They are so much fun to watch.

Welcome to Northwestern Illinois

Overnight Winter Storm 3/28/09
BEFORE

AFTER

Tar-Meena's lambs

born 3/27/09 around 9:30pm. Twin Ram Lambs!

NEW LAMBS!

Lambs, Lambs, everywhere Lambs!!! We have brown ones, black ones, white ones, black and white ones, and whites with little brown splashes! What to do with them all ???

I've been quite busy lately so I must catch up with my lamb posts. Here they are.

Many lambs will be available this year as fiber pets - feel free to email me anytime for a listing. We will also be offering small starter flocks for those wanting to join the joy of raising Shetland Sheep.

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These are Felicity's twin ewe lambs, born 3/25/09.

Here we have Stary and her single ewe lamb, born 3/25/09.

This precious little one is Cordelia's ewe lamb, born 3/22/09.

This little one is Arnora's single ewe lamb, born 3/17/09.

GEM HAD TRIPLETS

We had just the one black boy - a little while later the black and white girl. Then. . . about 20 min. later - She had a third - a little white boy!
What a morning!

Midnight, 2 ram lambs!

Midnight had 2 Ram Lambs, March 11th, at 6:30pm.

QUADRUPLITS AGAIN! NALA DID IT AGAIN!

Nala did it again! This is the second year in a row she had quadruplits!

Last year she had 3 boys and 1 girl, This year (1:00pm today) she had 3 girls and 1 boy!

FIRST SPRING LAMB!

Togepi gave birth in the early hours of March 7 to a healthy ram lamb. His name is Dreani. We are just waiting on 10 more ewes! It's going to be an exciting spring!

Momma looks very proud!

Medichi and MiaKoda

Momma and baby are doing great! MiaKoda will be 8 months old on March 11th.
They are both a 'bit' muddy at the moment - gota love the spring!

Momma and Crew

I think Koda is getting use to all different types of farm animals. He seems to be quite content in this winterfest.

Koda is now 6 months old, and lookin' good!!!

Medichi and Koda are hanging out with Bandit (one of our Ram Lambs)

New Farm Sign!!

We have some pretty fabulous friends. My husband and I went away for the weekend and upon our return there was a sign outside our front door. When the ground unfreezes it will be placed out in a pasture near the highway. Thank you Bob and Nikita. It's beautiful!

New photos of Koda and Medichi

I just took this real quick this morning - he is so adorable :)

I'll grab some close-ups this afternoon when they come up for feeding.

Shetland Ewes

Here are some of the girls, they are looking good! I can't wait until I can get my hands on these fleeces :)

Available Ram Lambs, 2008

Like Mother, Like Son :)

Sunny Day in the Flowers :)

Miakoda, 16 Days old!!!

I'm so cute!

Got a fly problem? Moms got me covered!

Love those Glass Blue Eyes!

Name adjustment

You may have noticed, I've changed the foals name. When I came home from vacation I watched him for a while and thought, "he is not a Pocono, he's a true indian pony", so the search was on for the perfect name. His coloring is very unique and we had a full moon last week, so it seemed fitting to name him Miakoda, Koda for short. This is Native Indian for "Power of the Moon". And the name seems to fit him rather well.

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To see many more photos of Pocono just click on this link - most of the photos are under the album name "Medichi and Pocono".

WE HAVE FOAL!!!! - Named MiaKoda -, Indian for "power of the moon"

On the evening of July 11th, I was in Richmond, VA, on my way to Outerbanks North Carolina for a weeks vacation with my family and inlaws. We were woken up by the ringing of my husbands cell phone around midnight. MEDICHI HAD A Colt!!! I'm 950 miles from home!!!! And I won't be home until the 21st!!! My friends continue to send pics to me so I am posting some of them now. I can't wait to get home and play with him. His name is Pocono: named for the Pocono Mountains in PA, Poco for short; my grandmother and I use to camp up there. The name seems fitting for this little boy.

I am just now able to post a pic - there have been issues. I am still in Nags Head, North Carolina. - I can't wait to get home and work with this little colt. I'll post more pics when I receive them.

Updates

No Foal Yet :(

Garden is looking Great!

The Dogs are enjoying the sun!

And the Sheep are happily grazing!

All is well on the farm front :)!!!

Guarding the Farm

Sammie is very happy guarding the farm.