PECAN SANDIE AND SHORTBREAD

These two lovely kids were born a week after Juno and her brother. They both have blue eyes. Shortbread is the golden colored buckling on the left--he'll be wethered and sold as a pet to some lucky person. Sandie will be staying here, as she is Meghan's favorite so far. She often visits us in the house to spend some time bouncing on the bed.

Never Leave Kids Unattended

This is Juno. I just left the house for a brief moment to do something outside and came in to find she had leapt onto the table. And then she decided she was thirsty and drank most of my green tea.
Here she discovers she is being watched, but she shows absolutely no remorse at her thievery. But I did learn my lesson. No kids in the house without supervision!

Dancing Angels Decibel

Going or coming we really have grown to like this little doe kid. Her sire is Twin Creeks PDF Megapixel who is sired by CH Pecan Hollow Dance Fever and out of CH/MCH Twin Creeks WB Madame Butterfly. Her dam is a lovely red/white three-year old doe sired by Twin Creeks WB Rain Beau and out of South Campus Temperance who is the dam of two permanent champions. She not only has lovely style and legset, but she has an outgoing personality and is afraid of nothing.

Nigerian Dwarf Goat Kids In The House

With the frigid temperatures we've had since the kids were born the middle of January, we've been bringing them into the house for a couple hours each day to give their moms a break from their antics. Unfortunately for Billy Bob Thornton Cat their favorite place to play and nap is HIS chair. They've tried kissing up but he refuses to budge on his position that a kid's place is in the barn!

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

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I hope this upcoming year I can find more time to just dance, laugh with my daughter, spend time with my friends, and continue to enjoy the fruits of living on our wonderful homestead.

I am also looking forward to continuing my quest to produce the finest, softest Shetland sheep and promote their heritage as a wool breed in the local marketplace.

I've come full circle and now feel Australian Spotted bantam ducks are the only breed I want to work with, so I will continue to breed a few of this wonderful breed every year and enjoy their antics in the garden. This year my little flock of ducks enjoys hanging out on rooftops and flying down upon us whenever we get a bag of spinach out of the coolers out front.

I wish you and yours a most wonderful 2008. In about three weeks' time we will have our first Nigerian kids born. We will post photos as soon as the blessed event happens.

Wintertime Thriller and Piper

Thriller has matured into a very nice polled ram. This year Meghan decided to just breed him to two of her NASSA registered ewes, as she wanted to use Black Forrest(her black gulmoget ram)and a very nice mioget Heights Orion F1 of Cynthia Caillagh-Allen's for the majority of her ewes. She also did a couple more breedings to Thriller's sire Wintertime Landslide. The ewe below is Sheltrgpines Piper. She carries spots, modified colors and has a nice intermediate fleece. The other ewe slated for him is Wintertime Pavlova who is getting an extra month to grow up a bit more before being bred. This breeding will be a linebreeding on Landslide and two strong polled lines of ewes.

Winter Sky Cointreau's Breeding Group

This boy is a total psycho in the barn, but I can't take a bad photo of him and his fleece tested 19.5 AFD, 5.6 SD, 28.7 CV with 4.4 % fibers greater than 30, so I've selected an interesting and diverse group of ewes to cross him with this year just to see what he can do. His dam is also being bred back to Wintertime Black Forrest to hopefully produce the ultimate ewe lamb this spring. The above growthy ewe lamb is a Tennyson/Staccato daughter--Pianissimo. Her fleece is more intermediate in handle and length but has a wonderful dark brown coloration.

This is Winter Sky Lorrie Morgan(a half-sister to Tennyson sired by Winter Sky Sandstone)and Winter Sky Deja Vu(Tennyson X Kismet ewe lamb from this spring). Both have amazingly nice, interesting fleeces and type and are into hanging out in the barn with us each evening.
Last but not least is Winter Sky Diva--Space Cowboy's full sister. I was going to breed her to a moorit Heights Orion F1, but we ran out of breeding pens, so Leonid ended up going south to Wisconsin for his group of ewes. I am sure this cross will be an interesting combination for those folks looking for something that carries a lot of patterns and spots.