Looking Back: Hereford Calves

Spring calves back on the ranch in Eastern Oregon in 1976.

Baby Bunnies

Kid Goats

Ducklings

Kisses

Puppy Love

One of eleven puppies a man was buying goat milk from us several years ago to feed to. One day he brought this one with him when he came to pick up the goat milk, before taking it to his granddaughter's classroom for show and tell.



Ever since then, my youngest daughter, who's planning to move out this fall, has desperately wanted a puppy of her very own. She goes to the pet store once week or so and this is one of the many puppies she's fallen in love with there.

Dreaming of a White Christmas

Oink! Oink!

Misses Congeniality

Joy!

Goslings and Geese

Young goslings (center), the dorks of the poultry world, with ducklings.



African geese (beautiful but rather aggressive) from several years ago.

This spring we'll get goslings and raise some more Pilgrim geese like these.

Two Scoops

Black and White

"Nothing about life is black and white, it's gun metal gray." -Chuck Mead









These photos I took a few years ago of our black lambs in the snow are one exception.

More New Lambs!

Another set of twin lambs was born last night -a total of 5 lambs from our 3 ewes.

Little Big Guy

The lamb born in late October, our most recent baby farm animal.

Through December

"If we make it through December, we'll be fine." -Merle Haggard

I am not a very good photographer, which is OK I guess, I'm not trying to be. A picture is worth a thousand words -and even my rather lame ones convey what I want to share. I have seen some wonderful photos posted on several blogs: The Crazy Sheep Lady's Trick or Treating sheep at Halloween at Punkin's Patch, and Susan's baby donkey photos at Farmgirl Fare taken back in September are two of my favorites.



In my review of the book All New Homespun Handknit, I wrote for the Black Sheep Newsletter, I said I would buy this book just for this picture -and I wasn't joking! Who could resist this face!? (It is also a really great knitting book, besides having some really cute baby farm animal photos.)

This photo was in a recruitment brochure from Claremont McKenna College in California, one of the many university recruitment brochures my youngest daughter has received in the mail over the past few months. 'I want one!' flashed through my mind when I first saw this. I've since sat myself down and given myself the you-don't-need-another-project lecture. (BUT HE'S SO CUTE! I keep arguing.)

These all are really great photos taken by professional level photographers -which I, on the other hand, am not. Nevertheless, I have been looking through our photo files (I was looking for a particular photo), and realized that we (mostly my youngest daughter) have taken lots of baby farm animal pictures over the past few years. I want to share some of them with you by ending the calendar year here with a (mostly silent) countdown to New Year's Day with posts of my favorite (and very unprofessional) baby farm animal photos. I will be cooking, playing with fiber, taking care of farm animals, and enjoying my family and our holiday here at home, but I will be pretty quiet until after the New Year. Wishing Peace and Joy to everyone for the entire holiday season.