Author Archives: Julie Helms

Grand Champion Fleece at Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival 2013!

What an exciting weekend we had at Maryland Sheep and Wool.  I entered 4 fleeces for competition and 3 of them won ribbons. Gabriel, our new Cormo cross ram, swept the awards though.  (For those following the saga of bottle-baby … Continue reading

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2013 Fleeces are posted

Look what we did today! Some of the fleece’s are posted. Click on the “Fleece” tab above or click here

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Sunbathing in the pasture

Had fun taking pictures on this pretty, sunny (but very cool and windy) Saturday.

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VIdeo of the Bottle Babies

Here is a short video of me feeding the two little cuties, Heather and Cocoa.

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Baby album…

Here are some images of recent babies from the past month….mostly the bottle babies. Cutie pies all of them! Heather

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Dedicated to Daphne

Daphne died today from pregnancy toxemia.

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Whirlwind of a Weekend

Cheerios, our last pregnant doe gave birth today. She had twins this time, both boys. She was such a good mommy– I checked on her around 2pm with no apparent activity. Dave found her at 4:30 in the pasture with … Continue reading

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More Than I Bargained For

Last night I had two kids in the house, one on purpose and one not so much.

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Busy Day–Toffee Triples!!

After all the excitement at 1pm with Poptart, we did it all again at 4pm! Cassie said she heard some hollering outside so we quickly went out and found Toffee Twins in a mud patch in the barnyard. We quickly … Continue reading

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Poptart delivers ON due date!

Here are some quick pics of Poptart’s twins. She had a boy and a girl about half an hour ago. The girl has her matching folded ears. They got to wear the new wool lamb coats first! More pics later … Continue reading

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