10/17/2026
Archie and Harriet are FINALLY filling out and are looking gorgeous. After fighting so hard to get them healthy due to severe worm load, pneumonia, extreme anemia due to the heavy worm load for Harriet, fighting to get them to gain weight through all of that. We finally have healthy lambs that have been out with the flock for a month. They are gaining muscle finally and I hand trimmed all the dreadlocks out of Archie’s wool. To get them where they are now was a total labor of love filled with lots of worry & doubt but they are now thriving. I can’t wait to see them both all shed out next summer.
Also Miss Olive has been caught skipping and playing with them and they seem to have attached themselves with both Olive and Opal as I had hoped. Wally has also been caught sleeping very close to them. But none of the adults want to be seen with the new kids and don’t want me talking about it lol.
After so much failure, unfortunate circumstances, or whatever you wanna call it on a farm it’s nice to be able to use what you’ve learned and see the hard work be successful. So much of farming is learning and hoping for the best while calling on the experts when you can but not every single time because that would not make sense financially. That doesn’t mean we never use a vet obviously we do quite often. 😬🤦🏼♀️ What I’ve learned was mostly through working with my vet for other animals. Learning how to spot the signs early, diagnose, and treat makes farming so much better especially when your a small hobby/ pet farm and each animal has a name and is very loved. The balance of doing right by the animal without running the operation into the ground is hard but is more doable when you gain the skills to diagnose and treat at home.
Always learning but we’ve made a huge improvement in our sheep skills and knowledge this year.
