Lambs Due for Easter

Oops! I guess no one told 'Bryn' about the lambing due date, and what the lambing chart said when her due date would be.

Nick the shearer was just packing up on Wednesday evening after doing our yearlings, and there was a strange nickering noise coming from the aged ewes pen. I came around that side of the barn just in time to see a ewe chase the LGD's out the door and then proceed to have her water bag break. Good thing I had the lambing area set up and waiting for this coming weekend.

' Bryn' w/ her twin ram lambs, sired by 'Chacewater'

our first F2 Rossiebanks

Jeni ~ Our 'expecting' Great Pyrenees

This is Beechtrees 'Jeni'

The first 2 photos were taken this afternoon out in the pasture. She's got about 3 1/2 more weeks before she is due, and she is starting to slow up just a bit, and her appetite is increasing.
Jeni is out of Zora's 3rd litter, sired by our male 'Dan'.
(*Dan is pictured at the top of this blog page, guarding the Bluefaced Leicester ewe lambs)

This photo of Jeni was taken on the day that I picked her up after her stay with the owners of 'Lefty'. Lefty is the sire of this upcoming litter. (* see 'Lefty's photos in a previous post)

Great Pyrenees Litter Due

Beechtrees Jeni

(Beechtrees FarOut Jack Daniels x Beechtrees Zora of Winrose)

Has been bred to

Ch. Charbonneau's Dark Roast (aka 'Lefty')

puppies are expected the week of April 20th, 2010

This mating should produce excellent working and companion temperaments,

along with nice pigment and markings.

*photos of sire below*

Ch. Charbonneau's Dark Roast

'Lefty'

OFA: excellent

Photos of the dam: Jeni will be posted in a later entry.

Raven's Education

At the tender age of 13 weeks, Raven is learning about the various varmints she will be required to dispatch, such as skunks, fox, and raccoon.

Here she is learning a very important lesson. That if the humans are too busy, or if there happens to be a power failure, she now knows how to do the dishes. Yum!

Raven ~ 11 weeks old

Dutch Masters Agnes Grey Blackfrost

aka 'Raven'

Raven loves her rawhide chewies and assorted toys!

New puppy at Beechtree

The newest member of our 'pack' is a female Dutch Shepherd of the Long haired variety.

There are about 25 of the LH type of Dutch Shepherds in the USA, and it is considered a rare breed globally. The breed is known for is herding abilities as well as tracking, protection, and companion.

I flew down to Raleigh, NC to pick her up inbetween their unusual winter snow storms.

Her call name will be 'Raven'.

This is her Dutch Shepherd 'family'
Donja her mother, Ozzy her sire, and my female along with her 2 brothers.

The other members of her dog family are golden brindles, and Raven is a silver brindle.

Here she is checking out all the creatures at her new Farm.

Her first visit to Lake Michigan on Valentines Day.

For more updates and adventures on Raven, and our other dogs 'past & present'

I have started a blog for the dogs, it is: www.blackfrostshepherds.blogspot.com

'Cooper' heads for the U.P.

Last summer one of our 'started' female Great Pyrenees LGD's "Kate' headed to the U.P. of Michigan to guard some Shetland's and Targhee's from the "local" predators up there. Her new owners knew that eventually with coyotes, bobcat, bear, and wolves in the area they would need a 2nd dog to assist 'Katie'. Well, Sunday morning I recieved an email from her owners that Katie had single handily kept out some type of canine invasion, but they were affraid that the 'pack' would be back.
So we made arrrangements that they would make a trip below the 'bridge' on Monday to pick up 'Cooper' a 8 month old Pyrenees male that was being mentored by Kate's sister (Jeni) and Kate's dam (Zora).
I got an email on Tuesday morning that Kate was "in heaven" to have a buddy, and this is the same pup that she started to break in last summer before she moved to the U.P.
We hope Katie and Cooper have a great life in the U.P. and that their owners can now rest peacefully at night knowing they've got two dogs to watch over their flock.

Beechtree's Cooper

1-28-2010

8 months old