A few weeks ago, we got the latest addition to our farm: Our two horses. The first one is a Shetland pony called Missy, and the other a Norwegian Fjording horse called Drage («Dragon»). For a while, we had been looking around Finnmark for a pony that Lilu and other kids could ride and that [...]

I have asked around everywhere and no one has ever heard of lambs sleeping on their mother’s backs.  On our farm, when it is resting time, our baby lambs jump on their mother’s backs, make a little nest by padding down the wool and then curl up snug as a lamb-in-a-rug.  The only explanation I [...]

When the grass is greener on the other side you need to move the sheep. Easy!

Lambing season was over for us.  We had four new lambs from a ewe stock of five.  Two of our ewes didn’t get pregnant but the yearling ewe had twins.  Only about 60% of ewe-lambs (female sheep under a year) get pregnant in their first year so we weren’t doing too bad.  As a breeder [...]