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Farm Camp Dates 2013

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We have selected our dates for Farm Camp for 2013. There will be an April Vacation camp April 15-19th. Summer camps will run June 24 – 28, July 1-5 and July 15-19. Visit our Farm Camp page to download the Registration and health forms or email me at Kristen@LittleBrookFarm.com for more information.

Camp Dates Are Set!

We have set our farm camp dates for the 2012 year. We know it’s short notice, but we have added a 4 day February School Vacation Week Camp. This will run from Tuesday, February 21 – Friday, February 24, 2012 and campers must be age 8 and up. We really enjoyed the April School Vacation [...]

April Vacation Camp Week

April Vacation Camp was wonderful this year. We had a wonderful small group of girls, all returning campers. They did a wonderful job helping me to catalog all of the new baby goats. It was getting hard to keep track of who belonged to who! We handled them daily and they are all quite friendly [...]

Goat Kids For Sale 2011

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The Nigerian Dwarf Dairy Goats are all done kidding. What an amazing kidding season. We had a set of twins, 2 sets of triplets, a set of quadruplets and a set of SEXTUPLETS! I have put up pictures of all the kids that are for sale. I will try to put up some information about [...]

April 5, 2011

Both cows have calved. We sadly lost Sherry’s heifer calf. The vet believes the cord broke during delivery and she did not get out quick enough. We convinced her to adopt a jersey bull calf though. She loves her new adopted son! Margo gave birth to another gorgeous heifer calf just 2 weeks later. She [...]

Lambing has begun 2011

The first lambs arrived on March 3rd, a beautiful set of black twin ewe lambs (females). These were followed friday by another set of twins. This time a black ram lamb and a white ewe lamb. All four lambs are doing well. Many more to come!

Sheep Shearing 2011

All 21 sheep were successfully shorn today in preparation for lambing. We shear the sheep prior to lambing for several reasons. 1) When ewes lamb it stresses their bodies and they get a break or weak spot in each wool fiber at that spot. This makes it less desirable to hand spinners. 2) The lambs [...]

New lambing barn finished

The new addition to the lambing barn is finally done! It is all bedded and read for sheep. Lambing will start in March. The first calf is due the end of February and the second calf is due the middle of March. The Goats will be kidding in April! We have decided to add some [...]

Camp Week 2 Photos

Enjoy these photographs from week 2 of camp. Lots of smiling faces and happy animals.

2013

CAMP DATES

April 15-19
June 24-28
July 1-5
July 15-19

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