North Star Shetlands & Friends

2008-09-28T14:26:00.005-05:00

Everyone else has been posting videos lately, so I thought I'd add one. This is my beautiful little Iduna, out of LRO Jet and RO Isaac. She is so freaking sweet it's unreal. Her and Thor attack me every time I come in the pen...but they've reversed roles. The ram has had no ideas of being "rammy"...but this sweet, adorable little ewe...if I stop petting her...well...watch...lol

*DISCLAIMER* I don't know who's horribly nasaly voice or fat legs those could be...just ignore them...:) ;-)

Be careful...VERY SWEET FACE! hehehe

Cute pics :)

2008-09-01T01:32:00.004-05:00

Thor peeking around the corner at me.

Like mother, like son...Torrent, Thor's mother, peeking at me too :) Same corner, just a few minutes apart...I think they smelled "cookies." :)

I just love Freyja's expressive eyes...she's absolutely gorgeous!

Frigga...so feminine :)

River Oaks Tasha attacking me for cookies :)

Babydoll saying "It's HOT!" lol

River Oaks Diana's little guy. Nice little tyke...will hopefully find an equally nice home for him :)

Iduna doing the same thing she did at the fair for all the kids, sticking her head out through the bars lol
Peoney doing the same thing...well, trying. She couldn't get her fat head through the hole! lol. She eventually came around for scratches and cookies :)

Getting kisses from a particularly sweet sheepie, Minwawe Polka :)

Forseti peeking out from behind momma...oh wait, no, momma jumped in the way cuz she thought the shepherd had cookies! lol

I'm just impressed with this guy, just gorgeous.

Alti, beautiful boy!
"What are YOU lookin at?" This is the Minwawe boy out of Curly Locks that my mom wants to keep. I just love his horns! Tail leaves a little to be desired for, but that's okay.

Many horns...lol
FOF Likei...His horns are close, but they're passing. He's got a lot of fleece already and they get lost in there! lol
River Oaks Isaac and his lovely personality...such a sweet ram. Loves nothing more than a cookie and a scratch under the chin...as long as there are no girls around :)

And lastly, beautiful Mayhem. She is one of the prettiest cats I've ever seen!

New baby!

2008-08-31T17:45:00.004-05:00

Well...QueTee finally proved us wrong...lol. Here all this time we just thought she was a fat cow of a horse, but she finally did it! Adorable little filly! We patted her all down yesterday, but now today momma is being overly protective (We "something" yellow go loping through the pasture, probably a young Timber) so I didn't get to play with her :( Mom is a silver dapple, dad is a roan appaloosa. This little girl will probably stay about 30-31'' tall. She's sure cute! She's got TINY little white spots on her rump if you biggify the photos...Okay, now that I've bragged, time for sleep.

Oh, and she looks so wobbly legged in the photos because she was only a few hours old...them legs straightened right up like they always do :) She can sure run like the wind today! :) Anyone know what color she might turn?

Okay, okay, sleep! :)

County Fair time!

2008-08-21T11:20:00.005-05:00

Well, I didn't show this year, but I did put a bunch of babes in the Childrens Barn to be petted. All of them were babies I bred, one was Frigga who's a Minwawe bred babe. They did pretty darn well, most learned that "pets" are good :) Sold one boy, and hopefully two girls. Iduna really suprised me because she was SO tame! The first day she had her head sticking out BEGGING to be petted. So cute. I got some really nice photos of her as you can see. But, the drawback: I will be picking shavings out of fleeces from now til sometime next year...*sigh* Oh well, with 25 cards given out, and someone wanting fleeces for lace knitting, I'm very excited :) Here's photos! :)

That's Iduna in the sunglasses and hat....she was lovin it! I want to get a dress made for her! mwa ha ha haaaa

Candid photos from around the farm....

2008-08-21T11:08:00.003-05:00

Our personal maid/lawnmower...lol. This is my old girl, Willow. She's at least 8, but more like 12. They told us she was 6 when we got her...but they also were stoned off their ass most of the time and asked "what color eggs to llamas lay?"....lol.

Minwawe Merry-Go-Round, Minwawe Hopscotch, White Pine Rifle, Minwawe Miracle and Minwawe Skippy. Part of the new batch I got from Garrett that I'll go through when I get new pics of everyone. I just love this photo because it shows off such a wide array of shetland colors. Would have loved to have gotten a white in there...Oh well, next time :)

This is the boy out of Minwawe Curly Locks that we're keeping...he's turning out VERY nice.

Firth of Fifth Likei
Minwawe Polka! :) She's so darn cute!
Silly Torrent doing what she does bestest besides eating...complaining! hehePurrrrdy Mayhem!
Me with QueTee, my silver dapple miniature pain-in-the-@$$ :)

New Filly!

2008-08-21T11:03:00.002-05:00

Princess suprised us with a late little red flame of a filly! She is adorable! Also, Banshee suprised us with a VERY late dun filly! Very excited about both, though all are for sale (for now...depends on how much I fall in love with the fillies...mwa ha ha haaaa lol). Here's some photos of Princess's red filly, Banshee's will be a while because she's over at the neighbors being rebred.

Better late than never?

2008-07-28T16:35:00.007-05:00

I took these over a week ago, but have been super busy, so am posting now :) Enjoy!

Here's one of Minwawe Magnolia's boys. He's the tamer of the twins, possibly modified.

One of Minwawe Curly Locks' boys, he's staying here for now.

Minwawe Magnolias other boy.

Both of Curly Locks' boys.

The whiter flecket twin of Curly Locks'.

My sweetheart Thor, a gul-kat out of Torrent and my beloved Checknon.

Here's Thor's fleece under that dirty tan color.

North Star Tyr, out of LittleRedOak Tansy and River Oaks Isaac.
North Star Atli, out of Sheepy Hollow Peoney and River Oaks Isaac.

North Star Foresetti, out of Karma and Likei.

Frigga! I just can't get enough of her! She's adorable :) Out of Minwawe Polka.

Another shot of Frigga.

Another shot of Atli, you can see his horns a bit better here.

Another of Frigga :)

Kizzy's twin grey girls.

Me cuddling with Thor. :)
Two bodied, one headed sheep! Nah, just Lapachos twin boys hangin' together.

Lapacho's fawn kat boy, Verthandi. Pending sale.

Another shot of Tyr.

Lapacho and her boys.

Demi and her boy.

Iduna looks like a toadstool here! lol

Me and Thor...with my wrist brace wrapped in a Wal-mart bag and Magnolia wondering what the heck is going on and where are her babies! We weaned the other boys that day...lol

My mother is absolutely in love with the Minwawe crew from Mary Ellen. She wants me to post a special thanks to Peeps for our wonderful new sheep! Polka is by far her favorite, and she loves that Polka will follow her all around the pasture for scratches. She keeps calling her Popcorn though....LOL. SO guess what Polkas '09 baby will likely be called....? lol

That's it for now. More coming this week. Everyones getting their 'jewelry' :(

New lamb :)

2008-07-08T06:58:00.005-05:00

Diana pulled through and gave us a pretty little solid moorit boy :) He's out of Likei, so likely carries spots.And some shots of everyone else :)

Sorry for the bad photos with random backs in them...I was being mauled for cookies!

Pretty Freyja
Tyr, out of Little Red Oak Tansy and River Oaks Isaac. Available for sale. Will likely be intermediate or double coated. Very nice fluffy long soft fleece so far.

This is either Minwawe Mangrove or Bayeau, both brothers look nearly identical. He is available for sale.

Frigga, Polkas daughter.
Forseti is getting friendlier! :)

Iduna, out of Little Red Oak Jet. She and her mother are being retained.

Well, at least its not broken....

2008-07-02T10:51:00.001-05:00

I hurt my wrist at work a few nights ago...went to the doc last night and he said I can't use it at all and have to go see a specialist. *sigh* So no major blogging for me for at least a week, but likely longer. Typing with only my right hand lol.

For Sale!

2008-06-29T09:42:00.001-05:00

Check out my sales blog in the links to the right to see what's for sale right now! I'm open to offers and trades!

Random fun photos :)

2008-06-24T21:27:00.004-05:00

If anyone is a horsey color expert (or knows anything lol) I would love the opinion on both the foals coloring. Above...Dun appaloosa? He's got a nice blanket across his butt, you'll have to enlarge the photo to see though. Mom is above, blue roan and white pinto :)

Thor on the bale in the cart...
King of the mountain!
Pakky with her colt...no idea on his color.

Another photo of Pakkys colt.

One of the Cavalier pups, mom named them "Liza Menelli (sp??) and Madonna" Above is Liza
Here's Madonna :)
Clouds on Saturday.
Where's Waldo?! Okay, it's not Waldo, but try and find the humming bird male! hehehehe
Very pretty double rainbow over the farm...didn't notice it was a double until I looked at the photos again! lol

Freyja and momma, Tasha.
Babydoll
Peek-a-boo!
She is soooo elegant!

No new computer yet...

2008-06-19T14:40:00.003-05:00

But! My dear boyfriend bought me the parts to get me started. We would have possibly had it up and running by my birthday (tomorrow, 20th) but he had to order a new power supply because mine is too ancient to use...wrong connectors or some technical jargon. But I should have it soon! Yay! It's just so darn frusterating not having access to any of my stuff...I'm lucky I remember the log in to my blog! lol. I have no email addresses other than the people that have emailed me since my computers mental breakdown *sigh* And time to haul hay this weekend, yay! lol. Luckily we're still getting it for $3 a bale...they had some god awful amount like 2000 bales or something, because between my mom's friend and us, I'm sure we've taken nearly 1000, and I know they've had other customers. Hopefully they'll keep the same price or only slightly raise it this year *crosses fingers* Anyway, back to bed for me. I've had this killer headache all night/day...Need to rid myself of it!

Meet North Star Forseti!

2008-06-14T14:47:00.004-05:00

Happy to announce Likei's first son! This is North Star Forseti. Unfortunately he is not currently able to be NASSA registered, but he's gorgeous just the same! Very nice thick eye flashes just like his daddy, which I LOVE. Winter Sky Karma is his momma :)

And here's a couple updated photos of North Star Frigga. SHe's growing like a weed, as are all the other lambs, but the rest of the photos need to be cropped before I'll post them, lots of excess crap in the photo that doesn't need to be there...i.e. other sheepy legs, water pails, etc. lol She's so feminine and elegant, I just adore this little girl!

Computer mental breakdown....

2008-06-10T21:24:00.002-05:00

Well, my frankenstein machine finally kicked the bucket. We think it's either the motherboard, the power supply or possibly a failed connection. I've been having problems with it for a while, I'd power it down, and it wouldn't start again for like a 1/2 hour to and hour...well yesterday it shut down by itself and we got it to start up twice, but then Denny started trying to fix it, and it just went kaput. Sooooo...anyone wanna buy some sheep? lol. I want my computer back! It's so sad to see a 21'' flat pannel monitor going to waste on my desk ;-) LOL

What's in a name...?

2008-06-09T07:29:00.002-05:00

Oh yeah...my mom reminded me "Didn't you have a naming system this year...?" lol. So I suppose I should stick with my naming system, eh? So I'm going to go with North Star Frigga, the goddess of the sky. She kinda looks like a white fluffy cloud! hehehe.

Also, I now have a sales blog! http://northstarsales.blogspot.com Now I just need to work on a website! hehehe.

North Star....?

2008-06-05T12:01:00.004-05:00

Look at this cute new addition! Minwawe Polka had a beautiful little GIRL yesterday :) Help me name her! Dottie? Ink Blot (Inky! lol)? Give me suggestions! :) Have to find out what her daddies name was from Peeps, maybe that'll help some! Anyway, enjoy the photos!

One more thing..

2008-06-03T07:14:00.003-05:00

I forgot to mention what a WONDERFUL job our shearer did. Apparently he even attended a shearing competition last year and got "Best Pen" For the best looking sheep after shearing. Very few cuts, all minor ones. He charged $3 a head on the sheep and $25 a head on the llamas and alpacas. Very reasonable, I thought, considering gas prices. They took any sheeps wool I didn't want, and his wife helped me bag and tag all the wool. Speaking of which, I'm going to try to start skirting all the fleeces soon, and will post the raw wool as it becomes available. Anyone have any good places to send wool to be processed into roving? Or spun for that matter since I haven't gotten that far in my adventure in sheep yet (I got time! :D)? I'm not sure how great he was on second cuts, as I haven't had that many shearers come out to compare him with. He was also very gentle with our old ewes, Willow and Gillian. I mentioned to be careful with them as, being as old as they are, they probably have very thin skin and could cut very easily. I don't think either had any cuts, and were shorn to the skin, like everyone else :) I think Lottie and Kizzy had the most cuts, not sure why though, neither were overly squirmy. It was so funny to listen and watch the lambs going "WHERE'S MY MOMMY?!" lol. I really want to set up a better catch pen before next year though, but we'll see where that goes :)

Nekkid sheepies! lol

2008-06-03T05:07:00.006-05:00

Beautiful nekkid sheepies! It was so worth staying up for 32 hours straight and sleeping for 16 the next day lol. I was in such a rush when the shearer got to the house, and he was in a hurry, that I didn't get micron samples on the girls I wanted to sample :( Oh well, there's always in the fall :)

Beautiful Likei, all shorn. Look at those appaloosa spots on his rump! So purdy!

My mom kept raving over Isaac, saying how beautiful he looked. I'm not one for iset, but he sure is pretty. Isaac is available for sale, NASSA registered, proven spot thrower. Look at that cute white spot on his nose he's developing! lol

Minwawe Magnolia (Maggie)

The rest of the Minwawe crew. Curly Locks, Spearmint in the back, and Polka to the right. Polka is preggers and due within the next couple weeks...I'm SO excited! Anxiously awaiting micron tests back as well on these girls.

Bramble Gillian, looking quite good for her old age.

North Star Freyja off to the upper left of the photo, with North Star Embla and her mother LittleRedOak Gretel, and North Star Iduna on the right. Embla is available after weaning for sale, has a wooly tail, but her momma has a fairly nice tail. The other three are retained.

Konnel looks NOTHING like herself! And unfortunately, she didn't take this year :(

River Oaks Isaac, River Oaks Tasha and her daughter Freyja. Tasha and Freyja are both staying.

Sheepy Hollow Peoney and her son, North Star Atli. Atli is available for sale after weaning.

The babydoll is nekkid! lol. After her looking like a giant marshmallow, it sure is different!

Even the llamas and alpacas got shorn! That was very interesting...

I'm suprised Passion even came up to say hi after that adventure!

Pretty alpacas with poofs for tails :)

Sigmund. He'll likely be available as a wether.

Pretty Thor. He's got a longer tail though :(

Another photo of Iduna, very pretty girl. :)

Another very pretty girl! :)

And it was such a nice day, Gary was struttin' for his girl, Annie. It's funny to watch the younger male strut with no train yet...hehehe.

And last but not least, just a cute photo of Anisa, cuz she's adorable :)

I will be getting more photos of the lambs and ewes that are available as time goes on, but it was getting pretty late and starting to rain when I took those photos :)

sigh of relief

2008-05-31T21:36:00.002-05:00

Shearing is done! I have had no sleep since 9pm last night and have to go to work in 20 minutes, but shearing is done! Llamas and alpacas too. I have a split shift this week and forgot my camera today, so we'll see when I can get photos :( But they look so damn cute! :) I'll post pics asap. Off to work....we'll see if I make it! Wish me luck...and awakeness...lol

Allergies suck...

2008-05-24T13:02:00.002-05:00

All stuffed up from pollen and crap in the air, and from gardening and standing in a greenhouse for a 1/2 hour trying to get my potting soil and get out! *sigh* lol. No new babies yet, but we're waiting patiently for new little buggers. I need to go spray and wash my pants now and take a Claritin before bed. G'night!

Random fun photos!

2008-05-20T13:22:00.005-05:00

Sheepies and puppies from the last couple days...:) Enjoy!

Lapacho and her twin boys.
Tasha and Freyja.
Peoney's boy Atli.
Lottie's girl Nanna.
Jets girl Embla...who apparently got too close to someone lambing last night...icky!
Tansy's VERY nice boy, Tyr.
Grandma Konnel!
Lottie, Nanna, Freyja and Gretel.

Anisa wedging herself into a corner...don't ask me why...lol
Anisa and Izzy.
My little fox!

New Lambs!

2008-05-20T13:16:00.003-05:00

Kimia and Demi (both bred to Isaac) popped last night...Kimia had a darling little black girl, North Star Swanhild.

Couldn't get a very good photo of her because momma was freaking out.

And here's Demi's little mite. Unfortunately he's unregisterable and a ram. But so FREAKING cute! And one floppy ear...what's up with that? Part Nubian goat? LOL

Last one in Isaac's pen to go, I believe, is Konnel. Then we have Likei's pen hopefully starting any time :)

New sheepies :)

2008-05-20T13:08:00.003-05:00

Here are the girls and boys from Peeps/Mary Ellen.

Magnolias twin rams.
Curly Locks twin rams.
Pretty preggo Polka! (woo hoo for allertiation :) )
One of Curly Locks' rams. (Thinkin' about keepin' him back for a few breedings this fall)
Magnolia and her boys.
Curly Locks, one of Magnolias rams and Magnolia...Spearmint moved so I didn't get her in the photo :( She kept moving! Couldn't get a good shot of her lol.

Curly Locks' twins.
Magnolia
One of Maggie's boys.
And Curly Locks and her twins.

I LOVE THESE SHEEP! :) Thank you Peeps :)

Yay! New sheepies!

2008-05-20T09:47:00.002-05:00

Garrett arrived last night with my sheepies! Thank God I'm not too far out of the way for him (just a few hours) and he was able to drop them off...my hero! I still have yet to get photos because it was dark when they got there...And, another little mircale before we left! Kimia delivered a gorgeous little black very crimpy ewe lamb! :) I'm heading out there to take photos here soon...But I rode back to my house with Garrett a 1/2 hour north of the farm, and then he took off down 210 this morning, nice straight shot to his house :) His girls were very quiet in town last night...which is good, I was afraid someone would end up calling the cops cuz of strange baaing noises! LOL. We got to talk sheepies and plants some, and we took fleece samples of all 4 of the new girls. They are SO much prettier than they're photos...Polka is absolutely freaking adorable, as is Curly Locks. So femmine looking too! Anyway, I'll quit yacking about 'em and go take some photos! :)

The life of a farmer...

2008-05-16T12:43:00.003-05:00

Today was a very sad day for me. Rhiannon had been bred to my beloved Cheknon, and I was so hoping for a gorgeous gulmoget I could use. Well, today I got it. But unfortunately, when I got to the house, she was already dead. She was very large, legs longer than Torrents lamb, and very stuck. Pretty little face, gorgeous eye flashes, cute little white spots on her head...perfectly crimpy fleece. I am literally sick to my stomach. I've been crying off and on for an hour, this just tears me apart. She was VERY stuck, I had to twist and turn to get her out, one leg was back. Rhiannon is very tired, so I'm almost hoping she doesn't have another lamb in her, because being she's so tired, that ones life would probably be in danger as well. On a bright note, I learned some techniques of pulling a lamb. Unfortunately, it looks as though she'd been dead for a while, so if my mom had actually gone into the pen this morning and noticed she was having problems, we may have been able to save the lamb. But its' no use looking into the past, right? I still have Thor, who's Cheks as well, and we'll see how he turns out.