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Name: Sue
Location: Maine

Mom, wife, greenhouse grower, shepherd.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The V girls

















Our yearling ewe Lydia somehow acquired a side abdominal hernia during her pregnancy, making her whole side sag down low to the ground and causing her to have difficulty walking.
This means she needed help delivering her lambs, but all things considered, it was a success, giving us two lovely ewe lambs. The first one was the long legged black mouflon girl, and after checking for another lamb, we thought she was the only one. We went into the house, changed out of dirty lambing clothes, and relaxed with a glass of wine, happy to have a healthy lamb, and the tense time over with. Mark checked on the pair a half hour later and shouted to me Lydia's got another one! The little white girl with the black mask was on her way, and after some more adjustments we found her front leg and got her out.
If you have seen the movie The Incredibles, the daughter Violet, has super powers giving her the abilty to dissapear, and she wears a black mask. We thought this little girl, who seemed to be invisible when we first looked for her, should be named Violet as well, and her sister is now called Veronica, for no apparant reason (but I do have one named Betty) .

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