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My Tunis ewes on a sunny day in October.  I’ll be bringing them home a ram soon, and then the party will really get started!

My lovely ewes are due to lamb soon!  At least some of them… don’t have exact dates on most of them, but Esther is looking gigantic, and is due on the 30th because I caught her and Jacob the ram in the act, haha….  I checked her today and she’s getting a full udder and her lady-bits appear to be getting ready.  I AM SO EXCITED!

I’m suddenly really missing having sheep. These posts are from 2013, on the old pasture I rented for a few years. I had to sell them all when I was diagnosed with Lupus in 2014. I was just in way over my head, didn’t have the money, time or energy to manage that many animals, and if forced to chose between goats or sheep I will always choose the goats. But now all these years later, health stabilized, my own property acquired, I find myself fantasizing about maybe getting two ewes and a ram again someday… we’ll see. Unfortunately it looks like the Tunis breeder in my state is no longer in business, so I’ll have to most likely travel quite a ways if I want this breed again. And I really would like this breed again… they’re so docile and lovely. But if I can’t find Tunis then my second choice would probably be Gotland.

But there are many, MANY things that must happen before I can even start seriously think about more critters again.