{"id":2327,"date":"2015-09-29T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2015-09-29T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T11:30:57","slug":"spring-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/2015\/09\/29\/spring-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

A discussion that was on-going all winter long was if our “mamas” would have difficulty delivering their babies and if both mama and baby would survive due to the lack of green pasture.\u00a0 We were fortunate enough to be able to purchase supplemental feed (which turned into daily feed, nothing supplemental about it), and we have access to water for the animals,\u00a0 Between our well, pump, and water holding tanks, plus our newly finished ponds that are spring fed\u00a0in the front and the back of the property, we did not have to worry about getting water to the animals. Some of our neighbors had difficulty with both water and feed for their animals.<\/p>\n

We heard horror stories about cows abandoning their babies due to no milk, of birthing difficulties and\u00a0mamas and babies dying.\u00a0 One neighbor had sheep lambing and\u00a0vultures attacked moms and babies because they\u00a0were so weak they could not defend themselves.\u00a0One farmer expected 125 lambs and only had 25 born. It has been a tough year for people with animals.<\/p>\n

BUT… we were most fortunate that we had minimal issues with our mamas and babies.\u00a0 The sheep started \u00a0lambing\u00a0at the end of August.\u00a0 We have about\u00a050 babies with just less than half males.\u00a0 Most are black with a few white markings here and there.\u00a0 Megan is breeding for color rather than white.\u00a0 We have managed to dock tails, castrate , and ear tag our new lambs.\u00a0 They are adorable to watch\u00a0jump and play and run about in a group. Here are a few playing king of the hill.<\/p>\n

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Our lecharas were really huge and for almost a month we kept saying they would burst any day. When they finally began calving in September, it was not the ones we\u00a0expected to calve first \u00a0who calved first.\u00a0 We had one born, then a few days later another, then one in the morning and one in the evening, then a few days later another was born.\u00a0 The two largest cows who waddled because they were also the biggest around, we the last of the group to calve.\u00a0 We have eight babies frolicking in the field with 4 more to arrive in a few months according to the vet.\u00a0 We have six females and two males so far.<\/p>\n

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The Normandy calves are up and running about within moments of being born.\u00a0 Our mother lecharas are very attentive and keep close to their babies.<\/p>\n

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Here is Jon walking around touching all the babies to get them use to being handles.<\/p>\n

While we have rabbits and chickens being born and being sent to freezer camp on schedule, I have no photos to share.<\/p>\n

But we have been keeping our eye on our geese and ducks.\u00a0 They began nesting almost a month ago.<\/p>\n

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Just today, we had our first set of gosling hatch!<\/p>\n

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This mama took her little group on a walk about and another goose stepped up and is sitting on the rest of the eggs in the nest.\u00a0 We have seven geese and one duck sitting nests full of eggs.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if the duck stays sitting after all the geese hatch because the duck eggs take longer to hatch.\u00a0 Another learning experience.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A discussion that was on-going all winter long was if our “mamas” would have difficulty delivering their babies and if both mama and baby would survive due to the lack of green pasture.\u00a0 We were fortunate enough to be able to purchase supplemental feed (which turned into daily feed, nothing supplemental about it), and we … Continue reading Spring babies<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34327803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[181391,101338,32257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","category-geese","category-sheep","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BeCJ-Bx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34327803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}