tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307185572916956892013-05-24T00:47:40.618+01:00Greenhill Farm's gone to the dogs!The Green Dogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17993614760240750546noreply@blogger.comBlogger416125the-dogs-of-greenhill-farmhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030718557291695689.post-74109471079248891772013-05-12T14:59:00.000+01:002013-05-12T14:59:19.227+01:002013-05-12T14:59:19.227+01:00

I took this photo of Pip on my film camera. Isn't she adorable?

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Bubbles with her lamb from this year.

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WARNING: BLOOD AND BIRTHY GOO! It's Mother's Day and to celebrate, I'm going to introduce the world to Suckie's lamb, little Holly. She was born in the midst of the busiest time during the lambing so there was little time to take photos. Suckie was, as always, having problems giving birth (mostly due to her colossal appetite and small frame). I tried my best to help Suckie but in the end it

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With the fog heavier than usual it was a great opportunity to photograph the pups!

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The lambing shed at night.

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These lambs are now a month older, but I like the photos too much to abandon them! This is Noel: And with mum Tilly: The triplets: The always photogenic lamb with a black patch:

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Ben found a new use for the snow on Tuesday - he gave himself an impromptu bath. First, he dug his nose into the snow to find out how clean it was - it is very important to avoid the yellow snow. Then he scooted around a bit on his tummy. Next he began to roll. And then he went a little bit crazy! He was nice and clean after all that. Since he was so

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The snow returned on Tuesday and there was even more than before. For the lambs of this year so far, it must have been quite a shock to see everything so white. The first lambs of the year, the triplets: The lamb with the patch (and no name) had fun. The mums were very happy to see their morning feed. That great strapping lad in the foreground is Noel.

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It snowed! Yes, I still get excited. There wasn't much of it, though. Teddy didn't share my enthusiasm - it only required one ear's worth of attention. The snow hadn't started to melt on the higher hills. There was enough snow to make a snow camera, it's still standing now but it's melting. I made sure that the snow lens was a very expensive one. I took Teddy out to the field for

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The first four ewes and their lambs are out in the field now. Above are the first lambs to be born - the triplets. It was very dark when I took these so the quality isn't the best. Noel, the lamb born on Christmas Day, is also with them. My, he's gotten big. I hope the weather stays good for them.

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On New Year's Eve we had a small and furry visitor - cousin Twinkle. Twinkle is a rescue dog who's been in the family for a little while now but because it's such a long car journey for her to get here we've only managed to meet her now. Despite appearances she's a four-year-old, but she is, according to appearances a licorice all-sorts crossbred. I decided to would be fun to go for a walk

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The New Year is here. Ready, everyone? Here we go! We hope 2013 is a year full of smells that are far more interesting than having your picture taken. Happy New Year to our readers! 2013: A Year of Interesting Smells

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By January the lambing is in full swing and Teddy enjoys his first lambing season. At least I think he does. In February Bubbles has twin lambs that look just like her, Teddy meets some cows and decides he doesn't like them and lots and lots of lambs are born. March is month still in the depths of lambing. Suckie adopts two lambs after her own sadly dies, Pip helps to save a lamb from

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I'd been waiting for weeks, but on Christmas morning I was finally able to open my biggest Christmas present - a shiny, new 70-300mm lens. And it could zoom very far indeed. I was so thrilled I had to use it straight away! I went with Dad to check the sheep on the land we own in the local area. They were so close now! And after a fabulously festive and flavoursome

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On Christmas morning Tilly the ewe had to be brought into the lambing shed. She wasn't about to give birth but she was stumbling around and lethargic. We treated her for two of the possible causes and left her on a warm bed of straw, hoping for the best. After Christmas dinner, we checked on her again. She was about to give birth. She had a huge male lamb and Dad had the the rather sweet idea of

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With the ewes in the shed I was able to take Suckie for a nice walk around the yard. The weather here has been very wet so poor Suckie's soggy wool was parted down the middle. And of course, because it's Christmas, I couldn't resist having some fun... Oh, bless her. She was very patient with me. Thanks, Suckie. There's just one more thing to say:

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And so it begins... Having just brought the first flock of ewes indoors yesterday, we woke this morning to find three extra sheep in there. These are the first lambs of the season. There's a girl: And two boys: I'd almost forgotten how cute lambs were at this age.

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Today Pip helped us to make a bed for the pregnant ewes in one of the indoor pens. We rolled a round bale of straw around while Pip jumped onto now and again for a stroke. She was happy to see the job done.

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This week Ben celebrated his third birthday. To celebrate I borrowed a lens from college and took some shiny new pictures!  Happy Birthday, Ben!

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Um... hello - is anyone there? Hello? PS I have some news! I'm starting a blog about the work I do in college so I'm just putting that out there for you all. It'll mostly be photography but maybe some drawing. Here's the link www.gobosarecoming.blogspot.co.uk. Thank you!

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Every time it rains heavily for a few days in a row the ground becomes saturated at two fields on either side of the lane flood in one corner. Teddy loves jumping in puddles so I wanted to see what he'd make of a huge one. He's giving me his pathetic face. He wasn't too fussed about the whole thing. While I was wellington boot deep in the flood he just skirted around the shallow bits.

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