Also sold...

Sister's lovely Sugar Lips is also going to a new home! Congratulations!

Sold!

Slipper's ewe lamb with 'spats' above....
Flutter's ewe lamb above!

Flutter's ewe lamb and Fairy Slippers ewe lamb are sold to a lovely couple from up north! Thank you Michelle!

82 in the shade at 6pm - new pics

Above is a pic of the house with the South hayfield in the distance...crabapples just coming into bloom too.....

Pic looking north towards the barn that was red but faded now....boulder in foreground is chest high........

New water feature - check out the 'tiny' shovel to the left...that is one huge boulder! Our own little waterfall to enjoy this year! Makes lots of water sounds too - yay!

That's the south hayfield behind it......nice and lush and green this year!

Yeppers, we did it! 82 in the shade.......wow.....nothing is moving that doesn't have to move. We're not used to this much heat!

Officially hot

It's officially hot here! Yes, at 2:30 in the afternoon it's already 79 degrees. Will we hit 80? It might, it's warmest later in the afternoon since the sun is up high above us for sooooo many hours every day now. Blech, too hot to do any more work outdoors till this evening!

For those who like trivia, Anchorage Alaska Sunrise happened this morning at 4:25am, and sunset will be 11:35pm, followed by at least an hour of dusk...

great for farmers who work sun up to sun down, except up here.....we're pooped!

New photos

Caribbean's Ram Lamb again...

Above is Sophie's ram lamb born late May...I only had 2 ram lambs born this year....

My Bersugget girl....out of Sister.....perhaps Shaela, time will tell....

Natalie's gorgous ewe lamb...and I don't think she'll be gray either... she has white spots on one hip too! Her mother is Moorit with dark brown spots on her. Maybe I have a Smirslet/Bielset ?

Flutter's ewe lamb - just such a nice tail too!

Most of them are for sale too, with Caribbean's boy staying...

I can ship 2 to a crate on Northwest Airlines 'ya know...

;-)

Ok, now I'll head out to the other paddock...stay tuned!

Busy as a bee.....

sorry all.......crazy busy at this time of year. We are having lots of heat, far more than usual, and with heat comes extra watering of the livestock. I'm pooped of making the rounds so often! As soon as I get a helper, the rams are being pulled and put in their ram housing for the rest of the summer, then all the girls and their lambs can go into the bigger paddock by themselves and sort out their hierarchy again. All of the lambs are doing great.....a number of the ewe lambs are for sale too so if you want Minwawe genetics, they are certainly here and available. If you can meet a Northwest Airlines flight, I can put 2 in a crate while they are still under 20 pounds each, so that certainly helps! Will have to get new photos of the kids soon....they are getting to be such a lovely group too!

The Muscovies are hatching out small numbers of ducklings now too.....7 already here and thriving well, more to hatch as there are 6 more clutches that the girls are sitting.

On the chicken front, I may indeed have a beautiful Splash Blue Giant Cochin hen. They've molted into their permanent adult feathers now and boy is she gorgeous! I might have to enter her in the fair......

The dogs are doing great......I took Russell and Mimi in today for their hips and elbows. Those both should easily pass, but we'll wait for the final say from OFA! Gosh it's expensive to have them done tho - EEEEK!

The goats.......the Nubians girls are milking well. Did I mention I was in a goat show a little over a week ago?? I try to sell some of my best kids and adults to those who will show them and also put them on DHIR milk test. So, on the 31st, we had a big goat show that was fun. I had a number of goats entered. I consider myself a grateful breeder that I've put some nice stock out there......the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion Nigerian Dwarf Senior does, Junior does, AND Bucks were ALL Silveraurora goats owned by others! Clean sweep - woohoo!!! That was a thrill! And for my youngsters in the big breeds, Queisha - one of my Nubians - who is 5 months old took Reserve Grand Champion Junior Nubian - the grand champion went on to win Best In Show Jr Doe so I'll take that reserve anytime to a BIS goat!!; and my 3 month old Saanen Elendearly took Reserve Grand Champion out of the AOP (all other purebreds) class against Saanens, Oberhaslis, and LaManchas. The Grand went to a year and a half old Ober, so they certainly did well!


Hope you're doing well......