Shhhhh, don't wake the babies

7 little puppies all in a row

Sleeping (and growing) is hard work!

The Puppies Have Arrived

The first puppy arrived at 7:30 pm on 4-22-10 , and the last arrived at 1:00 am 4-23-10.

Jeni and I both needed a good sleep afterwards.

This is a pix of 3 of the first 4 puppies born

This morning Jeni & pups are now rested, with full tummies, and nice and clean & dry.

Jeni making sure I don't muss with the order of her pups.

final count 8 puppies

4 females (1 white: 3 marked)

4 males (1 white: 3 marked)

1st photo's of Jeni's puppies

These are the first photos of Jeni's litter of Great Pyrenees puppies.

Taken on 4-17-10

There seems to be 8 - 9 puppies that are due next week.

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!