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SHEEP

Huge Helen! She was the size of a 2 week old lamb when she was born! 

Tiny Tina! This is Huge Helen's twin! They belong to Bertha! 

Wensleydale Girl - This girl has yet to be named!

Wensleydale Boy - This boy has yet to be named!

Bertha! She is big and bossy so I just had to name her Bertha!

Leo - This guy is a purebred Border Leicester. He is black with a few white baby hairs on his head. His mom is Leslie and dad is Leapold. Leslie had problems with her milk so he was bottled from day 1!  

Leena - This girl is a purebred Border Leicester. She is a twin to Leo. Yes, she was bottled from day 1 also! What fun I had bottling twins and then added more bottles for the others that needed it! 

Mary - This girl is a twin to the boy I gave to a friend  for a birthday present! After her brother left, her mom did let her nurse for a couple of days. After that, she stood and bellered most of the time because she was hungry. I then put her on a bottle and she took to it right away which is very unusual after being on mom. She was much smaller than the other 2 I was bottling at the time (Leo and Leena), but she was older. It did not take her long to catch up! 

Lenny - This guy is a Border Leicester cross. He was born to Maddie and Leapold. He was born black but shortly after started turning brown. He is growing into a big boy! His spring fleece should be very interesting!  

 Wade - This guy is Wensleydale boy. Lovely tight curls cover his body and forehead! This guy is a replacement lamb for Wendell-the one boy I lost after purchasing him. I can't wait to shear him in the spring!  

Wensley - This guy is Wensleydale boy. Lovely tight curls cover his body and forehead! This guy is a little bigger than the other boys I purchased recently.   

Dale - This guy is a Wensleydale. He is a colored boy with lovely curls! We cannot wait until we can get the shears out to give his first haircut in September!  

Gwen - This girl is 1/2 Jacob 4 horn and 1/2 Icelandic. She is white with black spots on her. She does have the 4 horns like the Jacob while her fleece is like the Icelandic! We just adopted her today (June 29th 2006)! She is a 2005 lamb! 

 Duncan - This guy is a purebred Icelandic. He is black with a little gray under his chin and white around his butt area. We just adopted him on Feb 12th 2006! He was not neutered properly so he is still an intact ram! He stands all day long with his nose against the fence wanting in with the girls! He is a 2005 lamb!

Rambo- This big guy is a rambouillet. We just adopted (October 8th, 2005) him to save him from the meat truck! He is settling in slow, but then again he is older. Rambo is still standoffish. He does not like me to attempt getting very close to him. Later this week I am going to attempt to get him to come to me with treats! My other sheep love pretzels as treats!

Mr-Chif - This little guy is one of my youngest coopworth whethers! Sugar x Charlie!

Cooper - This guy is one of my coopworth whethers! Teddie x Charlie! His picture was taken while he was Waiting for hisa turn at the shearing board! 

Bear - Bear was named by my husband! She looks like a big teddy bear! She is also Teddie's mom!

Old-Girl - This is my very first shetland ewe! She is the only one I have with horns. She is now 13 years old. She still has a very nice fleece on her!

Marker - Marker is a sherino ram. A sherino is a cross between the merino and shetland. The fiber type is merino with a little longer staple and less grease!

Maddie - This is a cross between Madeline and Charlie!

Teresa - This ewe is a targhee. Targhee is merino type wool with less grease!

Sheri - This is a sherino that has been gracious to wear a coat all year for me. Sherino is a merino x shetland-merino type wool with a longer staple.

Leslie - This is a border leicester ewe. Her fiber is like ringlets! Very soft and curly.

Charlie - Charlie is a white border leicester ram.

Madeline - Madeline is 1/2 lincoln-1/4 border leicester-1/4 corriedale. She was my birthday present last year(2003) from my husband!

From A Pennsylvania Rescue!      

Penny-She is carrying a very nice fleece on her-she is an Icelandic! She is an off-white color. She will be very easily tamed. We cannot wait to shear her in the spring! 

Hunker-He is a Merino cross whether with a very nice soft fleece. He is younger (about 2) with a white fleece that I cannot wait to get my hands on! How he got his name- this is the town the rescue farm is located. 

Jason-He is a Merino cross whether with a very nice soft fleece. He is younger (about 2) with a white fleece that I cannot wait to get my hands on!  This guy got his name from the guy that owns the rescue farm!

ALPACA

Ash - He is a black alpaca! I do not know at this point as to what type he is, but I am doing my best to find out! I hope to get him sheared very soon. He was not shorn last year so his fiber is about 6-7" length right now! He will be neutered as soon as I get him shorn! This picture is not very good since it was taken the day he arrived! 

GOATS

  These 2 goats are now running with Ash! I call them Ash's boys. They were Carmen's first kids she had ever had! I bred Carmen to Harry to produce them. They were born in 2001 (?). 

RG (short for Red Goat)- She is our 1st born pygora goat. Her mother was a red pygmy while her father was a black angora. She was red when she was born so that is how she got her name! 

MOG (short for My Other Goat) - She is a pygora goat. Her mother was a dark brown pygmy while her father was a black angora. She was born to my husband goat he named My Goat so when MOG was born he named her My Other Goat! 

Sheeba - She is our 1st colored angora. She provides several pounds of nice black & white mohair every year. 

Carmen - Carmen is a nice dark gray with very soft fiber. She is a great mother. She was a birthday present from my old boss-that is when I was working off the farm! He gave me a bonus and she is what I bought! 

April - April is a white color carrier. She came to us when she was just 5 months old. She was born in April of 1999! Her fiber is still very soft-feels like yearling! She is also a great mother! 

Harry - Harry is my only billy I have. He is a very aggressive breeder. He don't care if he breeds my angoras or my pygmies! 

CAMELS

Connie - Connie is a 7 year old dromadary camel that we have had since she was just 6 months old! She came from a petting zoo and is very friendly. She loves dog treats! She provides about a pound of hair a year for spinning! 

Almost April - This is Connie's 1st baby! She was born on March 31st! She got her name due to it being leap year this year! It would have been April 1st (Karl's b-day!) if it was not leap year!

DOGS

Badgie - She is my great pyrenees female. She has raised several litters of puppies for me. She has a couple of wolf gray markings on her back which are very dark gray when she blows her coat.

Snow - She is a great pyrenees female. She came to us at the same time as Ash the alpaca came. She was very thin and skittish. She is pure white. I am happy to report she has settled in and gained weight to become a very nice friendly dog.   

Mabel- She is a pitbull-greyhound cross we adopted from a shelter. She is our watch dog that lets us know when someone is here!

Zoe- She is a bassett hound we adopted from some people that were moving from their farm. She adores our daughter! She also guards the house. UPDATE: September 5th, 2005-The people we adopted Zoe from wanted her back. They did not move off their farm and missed her terribly. I could not say no since she did actually belongs to them. We are just lucky to have had her for 1 1/2 years! We will miss her although we do have visitation rights! UPDATE: February 9th 2006- I was lucky to have run into the people we got Zoe from at the grocery store the other day. Zoe happened to be in their truck! I went to see her and she was all over me-she has not forgotten me!  

Animals We Will Miss  

Lobo- He is my great pyrenees male that over looks my rams. We regret this horrible loss! It is hard on everybody here! It was real hard to even go to the barn this morning knowing Lobo is no longer with us. We do not know for sure what happened, but our educated guess is that Duncan pounced on him causing internal bleeding. Lobo did go peacefully so that is the best for him. 

Ol-Blue - This is my oldest merino ewe. She is approaching 14 years old. I am very pleased that she wears a coat all year long!

  Teddie - Teddie is a romney ewe. She is a white color carrier. Her fleece is very soft-almost next to skin soft! We lost Teddie yesterday (10-30-07) due to old age. She was 12 or 13-maybe older! 

 This girl is no longer waiting for a name! Tonight (6-10) she was named when I noticed she was trying to nurse from anybody that would let her. Her mom is weaning her and I felt sorry for her! I gave her a little bit of a bottle-I caught her and stuck the bottle in her mouth. She went to town and took all of the milk I had. While she was taking the bottle, I was able to examine her fleece! Underneath all of the dark brown colored fleece is a wonderful silver color! Hence her name comes from the color of her fleece! SYLVIA! Since I already have a Silver, I could not name her that! This is a really post that is hard to do. Sylvia will be misses terribly. We have no idea what happened other than we found her the other morning laying in a big rubber feed/hay pan. It appeared she struggled to get out and was unable to do so. She loved sleeping in that pan! 

Curls! I just had to name her Curls. Her fleece has tiny little curls-even the hairs on her face and ears are tiny curls! We regret to inform everyone of our loss. 

Ol-Brown - This shetland ewe is one of my originals. She is approaching 11 years old! We regret to inform everyone of our loss. Her age got to be too much I guess-after all she was 14 1/2! 

Baby! Once she tamed down, she thinks she is a big baby and needs to be in your face all of the time! We regret to inform everyone of our loss. 

Leapold - Leapold is a black border leicester ram. This is a hard one to post. The cold weather after shearing was just too much for him to handle! 

Sugar - This romney ewe was sold to me as a 3yr old several years ago. I had ordered a lamb and she is what I got. The lady I got her from culled her from her flock. I figured out why not long after I got her. She is a tipper. That means she has a tendency to tip over and can't get back to her feet so I have to lift her to her feet. This happens several time a year, so she is lucky she is here with me instead of the worst option! Her picture was taken as she was waiting her turn at the shearing board! We regret to post this notice! Sugar has passed on to another world. She is no longer in any pain. Prior to her passing, she apparently had a stroke. I doctored with her for 3 weeks, but nothing worked other than keeping her comfy!

Rowdie- This big guy is a rambouillet. We just adopted (October 8th, 2005) him to save him from the meat truck! He is settling in slow, but then again he is older. Rowdie has now adapted fine. He stands at the gate when I am out skirting wool just bellering for attention!  Rowdie just was not able to overcome his under feeding/neglect. I kept him inside most of the time the last months of his life with food in front of him, but he was not able to put the weight on he needed.

Licorice- This big girl is a lincoln x dorset. We just adopted (October 8th, 2005) her to save her from the meat truck! She is settling in slow, but then again she is older. Licorice has turned out to be a big baby! She is getting more courageous as to letting me pet her nose! I regret to post this note. Licorice is no longer with us. She got sick and I was just not able to save her no matter what I did for her. (May 2006)

Bramble - Bramble is a shetland ram. We regret to inform every one of our loss. Bramble was not able to battle this winter's cold weather. 

Wendell - This guy is Wensleydale boy. Lovely tight curls cover his body and forehead! This guy is smaller, but older than the other boys I purchased recently.   We have been terribly hot here this month (July 06). It is very unfortunate I have this report to post. Wendell went down due to the heat. I was very hopeful for him yesterday (July 27th), but I lost him during the night. 

Millie - Millie was our 1st baby (kid) born. She was born 1-2-2000. She got cold when she was just 2 days-we almost lost her. I brought her into the house to warm her and decided to bottle feed her. Her mom is Sheeba. We regret to inform every one of our loss. Millie was not able to battle this winter's cold weather. She will always be with us in our hearts. 

Freesia - Freesia got her name in not a very good way! She was born in March of 2001. I happened to be in the barn for lambing around mid night. Rita-her mom-decided to go into labor. I made sure she was out and standing before heading back to the house for some sleep. The heat lamp was hooked up and she was under it, so I felt pretty safe. Unfortunatly her mom kicked her out and laid under it herself. Freesia was almost frozen when I went back out. I brought her in and warmed her and then bottled her! She is lucky to be with us today! We regret to inform every one of our loss. Freesia was not able to battle this winter's cold weather. She will always be with us in our hearts.

email: frenecreekfarm@cs.com