Jeanne & Lia went to Gorman Heritage Farm for the Shearing Festival today. Luckily, it was the one day that was beautiful and warm, sandwiched in - in between wet (and soon to be cold) Spring Ohio weather. They had a great time at the farm and enjoyed the animals and their very good friends.
Here's the shearing demonstration. Apparently these sheep don't mind this at all. However, as nursing mothers, they do mind being away from their babies. The gentleman explained that earlier they had shorn a mother and put her back with her twins and they were confused as to who she was, until they caught her scent, and then all were happy again. We learned that the wool from these sheep is not the fine kind you use for knitting, but rather used as a type of padding.
The Severanace brothers: (in order) Emory, Oliver & Owen. They have another sibling on the way but won't know if it's another brother or a baby sister until the baby arrives.
Here's Melissa (with child) and David. They had a lot to do to keep up with these 3 boys!
And here's Dusty with Natalie. Tina wasn't able to make it because she was on call.
Here we saw the darker pig just step right on top of the lighter one, waking it up and quite frankly, pissing it off.
Here's a baby lamb. These little ones were so sprightly it was hard to get a shot of them standing still!
Here's Lia looking at the goats with Mommy.
Diane and her daughter Katy enjoying all of the animals.
Dave helping Andy up on his shoulders to view the shearing.
Here's the shearing demonstration. Apparently these sheep don't mind this at all. However, as nursing mothers, they do mind being away from their babies. The gentleman explained that earlier they had shorn a mother and put her back with her twins and they were confused as to who she was, until they caught her scent, and then all were happy again. We learned that the wool from these sheep is not the fine kind you use for knitting, but rather used as a type of padding. The Severanace brothers: (in order) Emory, Oliver & Owen. They have another sibling on the way but won't know if it's another brother or a baby sister until the baby arrives.
Here's Melissa (with child) and David. They had a lot to do to keep up with these 3 boys!
And here's Dusty with Natalie. Tina wasn't able to make it because she was on call.
Here we saw the darker pig just step right on top of the lighter one, waking it up and quite frankly, pissing it off.
Here's a baby lamb. These little ones were so sprightly it was hard to get a shot of them standing still!
Here's Lia looking at the goats with Mommy.
Diane and her daughter Katy enjoying all of the animals.
Dave helping Andy up on his shoulders to view the shearing.
It was a great day at Gorman! They are now selling lamb & pork (although pork maybe from a different farm?). They do sell their chickens and eggs. Jeanne came home with a pound of ground lamb to make us Greek meatballs this week for dinner!
2 comments:
Jeanne, Dad and I enjoyed these picture. Is that farm on Reading Rd. in Evandale? I went there once after bridge. Didn't know Melissa was with child again! Wow, congrats, M and D. Love, Mom
I am very very jealous. Looks like everyone had fun. Tons of fun!!! Thanks for posting!!!
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