Kleinen Wiese German Shepherds

Posted By Sandy Wilson on January 2, 2010

Arla and Delta are pictured here enjoying the first real snow of the Winter!  Certainly our dogs love the cool weather and the snow.  They play hard all day and then at night they are content to lay by the woodburning stove, keeping warm and spending time with the family.    Time has really flown by since Arla had her litter of pups.  Delta is already 6 months old now – wow has she grown.   She can keep up with the big dogs now!  She is showing us that same biddability her mother has and also some interest in the sheep that we had not seen before – so can’t wait to see what she does when she is actually put to some early herding training and exposure.

My Aiko looking like a proud boy!  Here we have much less snow, but at least we are out of the mud season.  We had such terribly wet weather this Fall and I truly have looked forward to the Winter months.  The ground is finally frozen.  Even our sheep have been out of the barn and out in the pasture to enjoy some of the last remaining grass in our pasture.  In a few months we’ll be getting ready for lambing season and hopefully by then things will be warm and we’ll have nice green pastures.  I am sure our dogs will be thrilled to get out and really start working again.  

Winter is nice and the snow is beautiful, but what is even more enjoyable is the coming of lambing season.  In a few months, we’ll be having some lambs! 

Here was our first set of twins born last year – purebred Border Leicesters!  They are so cute and very curious!    The ewes can be quite protective of their lambs, but they are used to being handled and so they let us around the lambs to do chores.  I am very excited to see what our new ram, Bubba, produces.  Hopefully lots of twins!

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