Thursday brought our first lambs here at Sweet Pea Farm.  I had bought a baby monitor with a video screan, night vision, thermometer, and two way talk so I could monitor the sheep part of the barn better from inside the house.  Thursday was the first calm day we'd had all week as my oldest daughter has been on winter break and had plenty of activites going on through out the week.  I was upstairs with the girls about to hop on my trusty eliptical (the only non-barn chore kind of work out ...

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    Well the first new babies of 2013 have arrived, 20 tiny little chicks from Murray McMurray hatchery came to my post office this morning.  I ordered Buff Orpingtons, Golden and Silver laced Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, and Cuckoo Marans. They all were looking lively and happy so that was a relief!  My sister had ordered a few meat chicks to raise for her family to eat and they were market with red on their head to identifiy them, we called them Bullseye babies.  LOL  Apparently it is com...
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