Blue Mountain Farm Blog

New Rams: Greener Pastures Revel in the front. Photo by Greener Pastures

Happy New Year!

Two new Rambo’s in residence!  Greener Pastures Revel, an American Soay Sheep out of Phalen blood line.  He is pictured in front – get a load of those WIDE horns.    The second ram is Greener Pastures Allegro, a British Soay Sheep out of the Aphrodite line.  It’s hard to tell from picture, but I believe he is pictured at the upper left corner, in the back.

Many thanks to Ronda  – she makes a really great spicy plum sauce that was fab on the Christmas ham!

Singing Fjord - photo by Ashley Grover

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An old favorite; I think the second from the right is a grey Fjord!

Enjoy!

I just obtained two new Soay ewes that I’m pleased with.  Peony Creek Maia and Peony Creek Spring, both are mouflon (wild) colored, with  tiny scurred (almost polled) horns.   Both are 2005 models that are sired by Greener Pastures Jerry Garcia.  Jerry Garcia is a MacRae bloodline  ram with nice horns.   I’m looking at charts and bloodlines of my own breeding rams, trying to decide which would work the best in the next couple of weeks.   Many thanks to Nancy W. and Shannon M. in helping facilitate the move and transfer.  The ewes are settling in well and seem to be doing fine.

New Soay Ewes, Peony Creek Spring and Peony Creek Maia.

LOLcats strikes again;  kitty has a little lamb…

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Axel chain draft on an easy entry cart. This allows an appropriate draft for the neck collar for maximum pulling efficiency. Purple lines show the line of draft, from collar to cart.

Putting it all together – finally.   The picture is poor in it’s angle, the shafts are actually quite level despite the apparent pictured slant.  The purple lines indicate the collar and trace; illustrating the line of draft.     The mini donkey was able to move out and pull adults quite easily.

The harness and neck collar was purchased through Chimacum Tack ( http://chimacumtack.com/ ).  It’s of excellent quality and workmanship made of synthetic material, that is soft and easy care.  I customized the mini donkey harness package with adjustable hip drops, short tugs off of the hames, brown rein lines and nose band loops on the bridle.   I highly recommend Chimacum Tack in their outstanding customer service (thanks Janie!).  I was really pleased how cart and harness came together and now work easily for an appropriate line of draft.

Comments/questions appreciated.