Lambing continues; last week we had temperatures above freezing with rain. Nine ewes took the opportunity to lamb that day. I was traveling in Wisconsin and my husband ran around, warming lambs and moving day olds from jugs into mixing pens. Since we have no room to lamb in the barn our ewes are outside, lamb outside and we than move them to the jugs inside. Our sleep deprived lifes are a bit ummmm grouchy. I need my sleep as does John, so we agree to be grouchy. Since Thursday we've had 12 more ewes lamb with about 80 to go before the end of the first week of March. I'll try to take a photo of lamb races at feeding time
The dogs are missing working but we have at least managed to work Spec and Tate at least 3 times this week. One of the yearlings in the herding volunteers was very difficult to work, a little too much pressure and she would turn on the dogs. For Spec and Tate this was very difficult and for session number 2 we removed her from the group. They aren't ready to face that much pressure from a sheep. This of course gave us an excellent opportunity to work Libby and Preacher on a split group, on a persnickity ewe, and for Libby...sticking in there and not flanking off. I guess what i am rambling about is that you need to take advantage of training opportunities. With lambing and being tired we 've been a bit neglectful training but just a few minutes out of the day can make for some excellent work.
I've also taken to splitting the dogs into two groups for walks. The mini schnauzers (yes they are still fosters) are totally obnoxious with Preacher and will cause a fight.,...with them usually on the bottom. Poor Max ( I use this lightly) has the scars to show it. The minis need loads of exercise and with their poor social skills it makes for a stressful walk for me if I have to take either Preacher or Dixie. Note to self...no more mini schnauzer foster dogs!
Oh, we are totally enjoying Becca, the delta bluez puppy. She is just a charmer, is really well housetrained and is a fun puppy. She's interested in the sheep, so now the chore is to keep her away from them! She's fitting in well, sucking up to Sergeant ( the male Giant Schnauzer) and using all of her puppy charm to get what she wants. We've switched her to a raw diet and she is doing great on it. Becca has decided the white dogs (Charlie & Whiskey....not Scarlett yet) aren't out to terminate her but she is still careful around them. This past week she met 2 rough collie and another border collie. I'm thinking of actually going to a puppy class with her for socialization....Maybe i'll take Spec and John can take Becca....
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