Beyond heartbroken.....

Susie, I didn't realize (until we visited Emily today) that your beautiful, beautiful Jenna was my boy Kerla's granddam! Kerla is by Eric out of Narwin.

Kerla (Ozark Jewels General Kerla, my junior buck) has Eric's gorgeous head and expressive eyes, obviously inherited from his lovely granddam.

And we picked up a cute wether-to-be bottle baby who is an Eric grandson. So Jenna's heritage lives on at our farm too.

Sue

I am so sorry for your loss,
Nancy

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AHHH.. how sweet... I have Eric's full sister here, Ruthie.. she too has a wonderful head and expressive eyes LOL.. I think that whole line does.. Gloomy (one of Ruthie's solid black daughters I think is just stunning)...

Which soon to be wether boy did you get? is it the buckling out of Time? if so we will have siblings!!! I'm getting Time's doeling!!!! really excited.. I can't get her until after 4 more does kid this week.. but I'm really excited to add her to the herd! (I have a jr. buck named Walker.. BEAUTIFUL head/ears.. he is Gloomy's son, his sire is a full litter brother to Amberwood Twister's Trade Wind.. so this little doeling from Emily shares a lot in common with Walker (I plan on breeding her to him in a couple years!)

again thank you ALL for the sweet words about Jenna

susie, mo ozarks

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Yes, I got Time's buckling! His name is Milo and he's going to star in a freebie eBook I'm writing to promote dairy wethers as working goats. His sister is just darling and so correct. You're going to love her.

If you send me your email address (to ozarkgoattrek@gmail.com), I'll email pictures of Kerla and Milo.

Oh, and since you probably don't read Martok's blog at Hobby Farms Online, check this out:
http://www.hobbyfarms.com/hobby-farm...-of-goats.aspx

Martok is always complaining about Kerla in his blog--and rightfully so, because from the moment he came here, the does all abandoned Martok in favor of Kerla. Several of my ewes even hang out doing waggy-tail and goo-goo eyes around Kerla's pen when they're in heat and we have 7 rams! I don't know what Kerla has but he has a LOT of it.

Sue

BTW, your little girl is related to Martok too. Martok and Thyme, Time's grand dam, are siblings.

Thank you for the link to Martok's blog... how fun!!! I've been reading & reading.. your life on the farm, sounds much like ours.... besides the nubians, we too have sheep and a WILD hog!!!!

meet the glowing eyed, Ozark Were-Sheep
backrow.. Romneys ... 14 year old Mildred & her daughter Peggy Pumpernickel
frontrow.. the Shetlands , brown one is Wisteria Windchime (she's 10)
grey guy in the middle is Sherman Shortbread..a wether (raised on goat milk)
light grey gal is Chamomile Cutie Pie.. she is 8 and has the softest wool..


here's our HOG GONE WILD LOL.. Uncle Harold.. (8 year old pot belly, who would sell his soul for an oreo!!!!).. he is our 6th sheep.. eats, sleeps & grazes with them...


this is Victor (he is the wether that lives with the does.. ALL the sheep think he's hot stuff and flirt with him!!! He **KNOWS** he's hot stuff !!!!)


susie, mo ozarks

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Omigosh, you have sheep! Although I love my goats a teeeensy bit more than sheep, I'm definitely sheep-besotted as well.

I raise Classic/Miniature Cheviots and am linebreeding/inbreeding for old-fashioned Cheviot type and long-stapled Cheviot wool (colored, especially). They're essentially Border Cheviots before Border Cheviots were "improved" to create modern, long-legged Cheviots. Your tribute to Jenna made my heart lurch because I lost my best (quality, bloodlines and personality) ram, Baamadeus, just 3 weeks ago. Goats or sheep, they really become parts of our heart.

Well, you can see lots of pictures of our sheep at my Web site, although it really, really needs updating. It's at www.dreamgoatannie.com - just follow Sheep in to see most of our ewes and rams.

And we also have a pig, Carlotta. She's half Ossabaw Island Hog and sired by a Russian Boar from Chicago Brookfield Zoo bloodlines. She looks like a feral pig. Long story there.

Sue

Hands-down.. I'm much more of a goat person.. the shetlands joined us as rescues.. one spring back 4 or so years ago, we had over 16inches of rain in less then 24 hours.. (we were HIGH & DRY on top of a hill) others not so lucky.. the shepherdess who owned the flock of shetlands got hit hard. Cammie had twin rams out in the flood.. Sherman was an orphan bottle baby..Wisti lost her babies.. it was just a mess.. So come on.. come to Ages Ago Acres home to old, weak & injured critters LOL... When it was time for Mildred to *retire* from her Romney herd.. she & newborn Peggy joined the shetlands.. (you would think with all that wool I get every spring I'd learn to do SOMETHING with it.. but plans have never turned into projects LOL, The sheep work as the lawn crew ... Uncle Harold was wild, wild, wild when he joined us as a baby..he looked like a football with teeth!.. couldn't catch, little on touch him.. UNTIL a year or so later.. he blew a disk in his back.. he was down and out.. I kept him on pain meds & steroids.. rolled him, rubbed him.. wiped his butt for weeks...finally got him back on his feet... we've been *friends* ever since! .. we also have 2 mini donkeys who joined us after an older lady who was doing *rescue* got in over her head... the jenny Evelynn had been savagely abused.. beaten almost to death with a 2x4.. she is still very timid.. Howard on the other hand is.. well, he is just Howard.. into anything & everything he can get into LOL..

susie, mo ozarks

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