September 2015

A beautiful day today, blue skies, and fresh cut green grass.

August 2015

Jeepers! I've missed a whole month of posting.
I guess its just because we've been so busy.

 We put a new roof on the barn.

Fenced in another 20 acres of pasture. 

New additions this year from Sheltering Pines Shetland Sheep Farm.

Sheltering Pines Fur Elsie

Sheltering Pines Sarabande and ewe lamb

Sheltering PInes Sarabande ewe lamb "Princes Leia"

Sheltering Pines Sonatina, ewe lamb "Snapshot"

We also purchased 3 Silver Fox bunnies. A buck and two does.
Very friendly bunnies and very sociable.

Hemmi

June 2015

Shearing day has finally arrived. Master Shearer Dave Kier arrived a bit later this year, but with all the wet weather this year it can't be helped. 38 shetlands sheared in an hour and half, and all went smoothly. We are so blessed to have Dave as our shearer.

April 29, 2015

Lambing season is coming to an end. Still have 3 more ewe's to go before final count. The weather has finally warmed up and the grass is starting to grow. We put some of the first born lambs and ewe's out and they are enjoying running and playing.

March 2015

March 2, girls were put into their lambing pens. We should be seeing lambs in 4 weeks.

It's a new year!

February is when we send in fiber samples for micron testing of our fleeces!

December 2014

2014 Lambs

Ewe's Have It - Ester, Molly & Betty Boop

November 2014

Winter has come early this year. About 8 inches of snow so far. 

Girls having a meal outdoors.

 

Fall in the Upper Peninsula

There is no place more beautiful in the fall, than home.

Backyard

The falls

Our grainery at sunset.

Mom getting some sun.

Colwell Lake

Jester looking for apples

Modeling the new coats.

  

September 2014

 Fall is here and winter is not far behind. Getting ready for breeding groups for the winter.
If you see anything of interest, please feel free to email me. gulliverbarb@gmail.com

We are having Indian Summer and I'm loving it. Beautiful colors and warmer weather. We sorted through our flock yesterday and culled out quiet a few of them. Then I got coats on some of the girls. Going to have to buy some more.

 

Gabriel and flock.

August 2014

It has been a very cool summer. Its 8-20 and the leaves are starting to turn. Never reached 80 degrees this year, but that is o.k. Sheep are happy.  Today I opened up new field for them that had been occupied by some Canadian geese. 

Sheep vs geese

Gabriel spots the geese

 

 

Geese gone

June 2014

June was a busy month of lambing and lots of fun. Final count 14 ewes and 12 ram lambs. All ewe lambs were sold by July. Only a few ram lambs left.

The weather has been on the cool side, but the grass has been growing very well.

Today is July 13th and we had a warm day, 70 degree's YEAH! Baby chicks came in July 9th and it got down to 43 degrees during the night. Needless to say the heat lamp is on.

May 2014

New fencing up, snow finally gone and grass growing. The sheep are Happy Happy Happy.

May 6, 2014

Most of our ewe's are done lambing only a couple more to go. April was wet and cool, we still have snowbanks behind the barn. Hope the grass starts growing soon, so the girls have plenty to eat.

April 5, 2014

Today kicked off our lambing. First set of twins from Wintertime Spice our horned ewe.

March 28, 2014

Well it's the end of the month and we had about 10 inches of snow last night.
Lambing will be starting soon, so got some of the girls in their jugs today.

2014 Micron test 1st batch

The fleece samples came back.

Click on photo to make it bigger. 

Go to Education page to look at FFSSA fleece grading chart.

The second batch of samples.

2014 January

A new year has begun.

A few photo's of 2014 winter.

19 ewes 1 ram Bahruk

Blossom

Daisy & Anime

Ram lambs

Spice in front

11 Ewe lambs

Mature ewe's behind barn.

December below zero temps.

A few photo's of the spring lambs.

Gabriel going through fences.

Jezabel enjoying the snow.

November 2013

It's been a long fall. Had a cold that lasted most of October. September was mild and got a lot of stuff done outside. No bugs to contend with, yeah! We've been getting a lot of rain this month. Fields all have small ponds in them. I'm getting ready to get the breeding organized. Will take photo's and post a list as soon as everything is final.