Monday, February 5, 2007
Meet some of our farm animals...
Like I said, there are four women, six dogs, four sheep (if you look quickly), and one horse.
Now that it's warming a bit, Cindy thought it would be a good time to spend some "quality time" with Dusty. Come spring and summer it's time for some intensive training as he's old enough now to invite a saddle and rider onto his back.
No, I'm NOT the lucky cowgirl. Cindy gets the honors... and when she's tired, there's a couple down the road that will assist.
Here's our sweet flock. Chiquita and Merino (black and small) are the two ewes. Paco and Wooly are the two young "wannabe" rams. They were raised specifically for market.
I know, you're not supposed to name "market animals" but we're pretty mature around here. Besides, these guys are useless for anything else.
Chiquita is kind of rare... she's got little nubbins (false horns), and likes to use them, too. She's really the barnyard diva, with everyone else waiting for her next move.
We got the call Friday that the boys were headed for market. They'd been sold some time ago, but were awaiting a break in the weather as well as securing the right trailer and meeting the processor's schedule.
I guess you could say these are pretty spoiled sheep as they all but walked right into the trailer. Everything went pretty well until Cindy and the truck driver decided to talk "horses" for 20 minutes.
In that time, Bev got home and literally drove the Avalanche into the barnyard so she could say goodbye to the boys. Well, that set Chiquita off... Maaaa, Maaaa, maaaa! Then Merino chimed in. Within the hour, Chiquita was hoarse.
That was only the start of the adventure. The lady who had originally raised Chiquita and Merino's "mom and dad" invited both Chiquita and Merino for a "long romp with the ram".
I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of us three gals walking the sheep cross-desert to Dixie's farm. Cindy put a dog lead on Chiquita and away we went. Merino trotted right along with us, never straying more than 20 feet. We'll just have to take Dixie's word that it was a pretty funny sight!
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