I first started being owned by sheep twenty years ago today. I went to Mystic Knoll to buy Ebony, a Shetland black ewe. Then Sadie hopped into my lap so I got both of them.
Donna and Sadie 2002
Sadie and Rita, 11/2000
Sadie and Ebony
Ebony’s 2000 lambs
Ebony with her lambs Hershey and Licorice with Swirl the guard llama
Loki, the ram, did not come until the next year. He came from Mountain Niche and produced all the original ewes’ lambs.
Loki
Loki side view
Loki
I bought Reuben at the same time as a ram companion.
Reuben
I bought Babette around the same time. I had gone to Badger Hollow for another reason and fell in love with Babette instead. She was the best animal decision I ever made.
Babette
Babette and Bob, 4/2000
Babette and Bob, March 2000
Lucy and Garbo came from Primolana around the same time.
Lucy nursing
Babette and Lucy
Garbo’s lambs, 4/2000
Garbo 11/2000
Garbo and Greta, 4/2000
Garbo
So now it has been twenty years sharing my lives with sheep and I still love it.
Happy Sheepiversery 🙂
Thanks!
It looks and sounds like you are a “forever sheep person!” I really enjoyed the pictures!
Thanks Jeanne. We are not breeding or getting more sheep so eventually I will run out of them. It is hard for me to imagine myself without any sheep though.