A Sheep Diaries' revelation: Sheep are good at maths!
On Tuesday 25th September we had our last lambs. The last of the floppy-eared three had twins: one black and one white. This followed the...
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Sheep diaries: Not so black & white
We had come to the conclusion that lambs would either be born all black or all white, and in an alternate sequence, as it turns out. (The...
Sheep diaries: Pinch and a Punch!
A picture of Bliss. Mum snoozing in the afternoon sun with Pinch and Punch (or maybe Punch and Munf, or Munf and Pinch ...?) The birth of...
Sheep diaries: An exposition on bouncing
Next, it was the turn of one of the 'Pohangina Three' (two of whom lost lambs to pneumonia last year [see: Sheep Diaries - the...
Sheep diaries - Fatty's fate
Last time I wrote [Sheep diaries - Our first lambs], the fate of Fatty and her triplets hung in the balance. We had intervened to save...
Celebrating 10 years of boyhood
It is a momentous day. Our son, Carter, has reached double figures! Carter was born 10 years ago at Wellington Hospital. At 4.3kg, he...
Sheep diaries - Our first lambs
It was Saturday, and we had just come home from an afternoon of geocache-hiding in Rangitikei as part of our Wildbore series. Dusk was...
The Sheep Diaries - the backstory
It is spring! And that means lambing season - an exciting time of us, as near-novices to sheep husbandry. To record our happenings,...
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