Quads! and Bottle Babies

Tuesday, February 6 we had our first set of quadruplets!  There are 3 rams and 1 ewe.  Two were born with their eyes closed.  They are starting to open now.  Sometimes, if they are born premature their eyes will open a few days after they are born.

We decided to bottle feed two of them.  We were afraid that four was just too many for momma to manage and we didn't know if she had enough milk to keep four babies full.  We chose to bottle feed the two that couldn't see.

We already had one we were bottle feeding from the previous week (she had gotten separated from her momma and twin sister and needed a lot of special attention in the beginning).

The two babies up front (white one to the left and black & white one in the center) are part of the quadruplets.  The black and white one in the back on the right is the first bottle baby born last week (1-31-18).

All of these babies are Katahdin/Dorper cross (mom is Katahdin and the sire was Dorper).

They are all doing so well.

Welcome to our farm

Hello, welcome to the Buckler's Barnyard.  My name is Jena.  I am wife to a wonderful man and  a mother to four fabulous boys.  We have a small 40 acre farm in middle Tennessee.  I love the farm life and I am always telling my friends about our "adventures" on the farm.  One of my close friends encouraged me to blog about my "adventures."  So here I am.

We have Angus cattle -18 head of cows and 1 bull (he isn't Angus)  and right now it is calving season and so far we have 6 calves.  Sad to say that we lost 2 this season.   We raise Katahdin sheep.

 Katahdin is a breed of sheep that is considered a hair sheep (they shed so we don't have to shear them).   We have a few Katahdin Dorper cross. (Dorpers are also hair sheep.)

We just finished lambing season.  Our last ewe had her babies yesterday (twins!).  We have 31 momma ewes total.  Twenty-four mommas just had 43 live babies. Some of our momma ewes had babies last fall.

 The above pictures are of lambs born earlier this season (middle of January 2018).

This sweet face is our LGD (livestock guard dog), Danger.  He was added to our farm in April of 2017 (he was born February 2017).  He's part Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherd.

So please join us in our farming adventures!